EPISODE · Oct 16, 2006
Serial Number: TOPS60083A
There is a payphone outside 322 Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Like payphones all over, it is a public staging ground for private dramas. Raised voices are not uncommon, and conflicts range from relationship management to business affairs (legitimate and otherwise). UnionDocs, a documentary arts collaborative, works inside 322 Union. The members have been observing the payphone outside for over two and a half years. For the Conflux 2006, UnionDocs presented two projects which seek to understand the contemporary payphone experience. Serial Number: T0PS60083A, a project by Johanna Linsley, is the ritual examination of one (until recently) traditionally operational New York City payphone.
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There is a payphone outside 322 Union Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Like payphones all over, it is a public staging ground for private dramas. Raised voices are not uncommon, and conflicts range from relationship management to business affairs (legitimate and otherwise). UnionDocs, a documentary arts collaborative, works inside 322 Union. The members have been observing the payphone outside for over two and a half years. For the Conflux 2006, UnionDocs presented two projects which seek to understand the contemporary payphone experience. Serial Number: T0PS60083A, a project by Johanna Linsley, is the ritual examination of one (until recently) traditionally operational New York City payphone.
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