(📱& 🐉)
(📱& 🐉)
(phone emoji & dragon emoji) is a collaboration between Selma Lindgren and Arantxa Ciafrino.
Arantxa Ciafrino is a museologist and art historian with experience working in galleries and museums in Brazil, Spain, and Germany. She is the founder and curator of Wechseln, a series of art events that fosters artists working with video, sound art and perfomance.
Selma Lindgren, born 1997 in Berlin grew up in Norway and is currently studying Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is interested in working with found material, exploring its performative agency and finding meeting points between theatre and fine arts.
In 2019 Selma Lindgren and Arantxa Ciafrino exhibited a video/installation piece that used their chat history on WhatsApp as the main material in Vienna. They searched for certain words, such as, arrive and leave in their WhatsApp chat as a way to understand and reflect on their relationship. By sharing it with the public they were instigating a reflection on contemporary relationships and ways of relating to one another.
Now, more than ever, many relationships have become exclusively possible through social media channels and technology. We would like to know; 1. how are people relating to one another, 2. how is the character of these relationships and invite them to share this information with others anonymously.
The videos below were exhibited on the personal cellphones of each artists. The information was jumping quickly from one message to the other, making the public curious to read the content but relating it to the speed of which this kind of content in virtual conversations is produced, sent and later on forgotten.
Their participation in “who’s out there?” will be published here on the 15th January to mark the beginning of Vorspiel, 2021.
We would like to know the following information:
Firstly, 1. choose a person you are writing to frequently these days
2. Open the chat between you and them
3. In whatsapp/telegram/messenger you can search for words and it will tell you sentences containing this word
This is an ongoing project. As we collect information over the next weeks, images, videos and sounds will be added onto this page until the 1. March 2021.
Below are responses to your submissions by Selma Lindgren and Arantxa Ciafrino
1. My mum likes to eat burgers here on Wednesdays
2. Der ist der erste, der hier Corona anschleppt.
3. ich klaue klopapier hier im coworking space
1. My mum likes to eat burgers here on Wednesdays
2. Der ist der erste, der hier Corona anschleppt.
3. ich klaue klopapier hier im coworking space
4. i'm just reminding myself that I know so many great people here now that there's definitely something out there for me
5. hier ist es 1 euro unterschied
4. i'm just reminding myself that I know so many great people here now that there's definitely something out there for me
5. hier ist es 1 euro unterschied
6. kleine I'm falling asleep. Call me when you're here not sure if I'd hear the bell…
7. Aquí hay cansancio y nervios, mañana por la mañana te llamo para ir a buscarte
(here there is tiredness and nervousness, tomorrow i will call you to pick you up?)
6. kleine I'm falling asleep. Call me when you're here not sure if I'd hear the bell…
7. Aquí hay cansancio y nervios, mañana por la mañana te llamo para ir a buscarte
(here there is tiredness and nervousness, tomorrow i will call you to pick you up?)
8. I’ve been here before
8. I’ve been here before
9. It's like, maybe I'll just lay here for a few more days... see what happens
10. but people are still here
10. but people are still here
9. It's like, maybe I'll just lay here for a few more days... see what happens
10. but people are still here
11. Same here i miss this too
11. Same here i miss this too
12. How are you going? I'm just working, it's really quiet though so I'm just sitting here
13. Didn't go hiking but here is pt
12. How are you going? I'm just working, it's really quiet though so I'm just sitting here
13. Didn't go hiking but here is pt
14. Ich mag hoch, hier unten ists so voll heut.
15. there are missing lols here
14. Ich mag hoch, hier unten ists so voll heut.
15. Faltan jajas aquí
17. Im here!
17. Im here!
18. Are you there?
19. Summer is here.
19. Summer is here.
19. Summer is here.
20. Ech dremen all nuescht en ganzen film, seit ech hei sin, hun d’ gefill wat manner am real life geschitt wat een mei dreemt
(im dreaming an entire movie every night, since im here, i have the feeling the less happens in real life the more one dreams)
20. Ech dremen all nuescht en ganzen film, seit ech hei sin, hun d’ gefill wat manner am real life geschitt wat een mei dreemt
(im dreaming an entire movie every night, since im here, i have the feeling the less happens in real life the more one dreams)
21. -I break necksss here dont i
-fuckkkk
22. Sei froh, dass du noch noch nicht hier bist: es windet in der Wohnung!
23. Ici ça pue l'ennui
(here it stinks of boredom)
23. Ici ça pue l'ennui
(here it stinks of boredom)
21. -I break necksss here dont i
-fuckkkk
22. Sei froh, dass du noch noch nicht hier bist: es windet in der Wohnung!
23. Ici ça pue l'ennui
(here it stinks of boredom)
24. Jajajajajaja ojalá estuvieras aquí hoy
(hahahah wish you were here today)
25. I have no work, nothing to stay here
26. It’s 1985 and I’m here to pick up my husband
24. Jajajajajaja ojalá estuvieras aquí hoy
(hahahah wish you were here today)
25. I have no work, nothing to stay here
26. It’s 1985 and I’m here to pick up my husband
27. Hey Hannes, nicht wundern, ich schicke hier mal zwei yoga Bücher. So kann ich die von einem Telefon auf das andere senden. Bei mir gibt es big news, Indonesien hat gestern verkündet das bis ersten Juni keine Flüge stattfinden. Das heißt ich bin noch mindestens fünf Wochen hier. Versuche das beste daraus zu machen. Liebe Grüße
27. Hey Hannes, nicht wundern, ich schicke hier mal zwei yoga Bücher. So kann ich die von einem Telefon auf das andere senden. Bei mir gibt es big news, Indonesien hat gestern verkündet das bis ersten Juni keine Flüge stattfinden. Das heißt ich bin noch mindestens fünf Wochen hier. Versuche das beste daraus zu machen. Liebe Grüße
