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MEDIA PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION / EVENT
TELEPHONIC
RALLY
ARTCOM,
MOLTEKEREI GALLERY, COLOGNE, GERMANY
22 JUNE 1986
IN
COLLABORATION WITH RADIO-FRANCE, FRANCE INTER, AND EMMANUEL
DENNE
Unlike
their automobile-bound counterparts, the contestants in this
off-road rally race through virtual space … along telephone
lines and over radio waves. They compete with one another
to reach the artist by phone at the “finish line”
in Cologne after first having reached several other correspondents
in various cities—the different “stages”
of the race—at numbers announced on the radio or by
the correspondents themselves. The rally is carried live on
a special program on France Inter radio that parodies the
suspense, pageantry, and colorful commentary of a real sportscast.
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