NEW: the installation will be shown November 30 – December 14, 2024: Nuvola Creativa Festival delle Arti – VII edizione 2024, curated by Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
Emergency Call Center is an interactive multimedia installation. The starting point for it was the video Emergency Call (2019), in which I present some impressions from the summer of 2017 in Berlin, which was marked by heavy rainfall. The final scene of the video shows an old, rusty telephone with an endless, unanswered ringing.
Extreme climatological events, which take place all over the world, should be a warning sign to large industry and governments. My hope is that humanity will respond to Earth’s emergency call and not let the phone rust in the water.
In 2020 I have begun to expand the work into an installation with multiple videos and sound. It is a work in progress and thus will continue to be expanded and changed. The focus is an interactive telephone that you can listen to and answer. When you speak into the telephone receiver, the video images change. I want to emphasise that you can actually change something if you respond to the earth’s emergency call and become active yourself.
© Maria Korporal, 2019-2022
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- Emergency Call Center – installation
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- Emergency Call – video
Some impressions during the exhibition FIVE FOR 12:
EMERGENCY CALL CENTER was also shown May 27 – June 19, 2022 in the exhibition KLIMAKIPPPUNKTE, Galerie VBK Berlin.
