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Phone Call is in response to the foreseen isolation that will occur due to the current shutdowns surrounding COVID-19. This project allows people to sign up to be read to and hold conversations with artists and poets over the phone.
Calls will take place March 30—April 3rd, 2020.
Phone Call is part of Ginevra Shay's nomadic curatorial project: Rose Arcade (rosearcade.info) The idea behind Rose Arcade is that a sweet and small gesture can be a radical act. The concept behind Phone Call is to reconnect people with the intimate space of a phone call on a 1-to-1 level. Poetry is important to the foundation of Rose Arcade. When a totalitarian government takes over a country, poetry is often the first thing that is burned. When a peoples movement takes over governance, poetry from their people and from poets residing in liberated nations are the first materials distributed. This is because of the medium's capacity to help people dream of new possibilities and world build in the most dire of times. Poetry is central to this project, but the project is not limited to poetry and no restrictions have been put on the artists or poets, Phone Call remains a project centered on readings and conversations.
Taylor Renee Aldridge
Abdu Ali
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
CAConrad
Anna K. Crooks
Christian Michael Filardo
Kearra Amaya Gopee
GenderFail (Be Oakley)
Gordon Hall
Katherine Hubbard
Aristilde Kirby
Coco Klockner
Ty Little
Malcolm Peacock
Brianna "B.P." Perry
Amina Ross
Param Anand Singh
Ginevra Shay
Ryan Syrell
Martha Tuttle
ellievsbear
romaincrisis
gracieabrams
areudirty
amandla