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Videophone Dialogues / TV Interventions, Munchen-Live, Munich, Germany 1994

Commissioned by: art organisation 'Breathe'. Funded by Scottish Arts Council.

Project Brief / Context: To create a temporary public art intervention for a city context, in this case for Munich, Germany.
  Project Description: The artist created four 'video-phonedialogues' between a male and female, and proposed that these interrupt an existing television programme unannounced. On the 26th October, between 6:00 - 6:30pm, three of these video-phone dialogues (dubbed in German) cut into a live current affairs programme called 'Munchen-Live'. It appeared as if these private transmissions had somehow got mixed up with the television broadcast transmissions. After each interruption the Presenter would respond and apologise.
Videophone Dialogues text:

1st Dialogue

F: You should just try to forget about it...get on with your life, we
can't change the past.
M: But there are gaps...I still can't make sense of it.
F: But there is no sense to it...it just is!

2nd Dialogue

M: In fact I've use some old video footage of you in my new film, I hope you don't mind...it's not a lot, just some stuff I shot in my flat, and from that time on the beach...do you remember?
F: Of course I remember...but I can't really remember a video camera being about that much...so I don't know if I mind...I mean, did I know that you were recording me?

3rd Dialogue

M: ...and it was about that time that you mentioned there was a crazy plan to actually straighten the Berlin Wall...then a year later, suddenly thngs seemed to change...the wall came down...eh...Tienamen Square, Caucescau was 'round about then too...and Russia, all the changes that happened there...all of a sudden, but it all happened at the same time, all that, and then you!
F: But things do change, and then, there's no way back.