Just a number asking people to call
Ten metres of LED strip suspended as a giant mobile number. The people who called from underneath it became the soundtrack.
Another stunt built around a film. We created a mobile phone number, took about ten metres of LED strip lighting, and suspended a giant mobile phone number like an advertisement from the future. Just a number asking people to call.
We received calls to the number for a period of time. A few people who drove underneath it called. We used those voice recordings in an abstract way to sound the piece.
It’s another one about a dystopian future. The purposelessness of the modern male, the working full-time life, how you can feel alien in your own city, finishing work at all sorts of hours and searching for a job. The random phone number that gives you a call becomes your lifeline, just for that day you were looking for a job and you got the first reply.
It won the 3D artwork prize at the National Campus Art Prize, Watt Space Gallery in Newcastle, 2016. It showed at George Paton Gallery in Melbourne the same year.
A short film and sculpture by Trent Crawford and Finn Astle.
There are also poems.