Art & Audience: Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono, "telephone piece", 2008. Sydney Biennale.

This work consisted only of a telephone which at any point during the exhibition Ono may call from an undisclosed location and an audience member will answer the phone, or not and in that case it just keep ringing. As one would expect.

So, you could argue that the pinicle point in the work it the performative action of the phone being dialled, it ringing and then being answered by a stranger at the other end. The work is the performance, the answerer supposedly enters into this unknowingly that they are actually becoming art at the time of the conversation.

They have the opportunity to speak to the artist from within the gallery and say whatever they want. I think this idea is awesome. And really quite weird.