1991
Participants
Cheryl Casteen
Charles Flickinger
Julia Stoops (NZ coordinator)
Karen Atkinson
Duration
five days
Key Locations
Artspace, Auckland
The Olshonsky Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Washington Project for the Arts)
Technologies
Telephone
Fax
A series of live simultaneous performances connected by telephone around the world. Using fax and phone, led by Cheryl Casteen and Charles Flickinger at Artspace Gallery, Auckland the work included a live jam and storytelling with participants in NZ and USA. Explored themes of environmental degradation.
The single of the Hallelujah Picasso’s `Snakesman’s Cry’ was performed live down the telephone to a crowded art gallery in Washington D.C.
Julia Stoops. “BurnTime: Communication Between the Hemispheres”, Art New Zealand #60 Spring, 1991.
T.J. McNamara. “Artists Unite for Ecology” New Zealand Herald (including reproduction) May 30, 1991.