(START THE STOPWATCH)
"Hello"
"It's me."
If you're there pick up Recording 1
If you're there pick up Recording 2
If you're there pick up Recording 3
If you're there pick up Recording 4
If you're there pick up Recording 5
Writing artist - Cathy Naden and sound recordings spoken/performed by participants during the York/NEW YORK installation at the Writing Encounters symposium, September 2008
Writers Description
Playing with improvisation and stage directions, If You’re There, Pick Up is a 5-minute performance to be recorded into a telephone. Working against the clock, the speaker negotiates scripted words, silences, observation, reflection and spontaneous talking to construct a text that is part answer machine message and part invocation to an unknown listener. Working with live-decision-making and manufactured performance, If You’re There, Pick Up explores the fragility of intimate conversation between a speaker and a listener, as it attempts to situate them between the memory of their own past encounters and the immediacy of the present.
