Un Espace Parlé (1977-1979) - A Spoken Space (1977-1979). 47 propositions

Un Espace Parlé (1977-1979) - A Spoken Space (1977-1979). María Carmen Albernaz, Renata Boero, Alberto Carneiro, Ulises Carrión, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, Giuseppe Chiari, Geoffrey Cook, Diego Cortez, Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Douglas Dunn, Eulàlia, Fernando de Filippi, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Peter Frank, Peter Grass, Mary Harding, Renate Heyne, Image Bank, Christina Kubisch, Lawrence Kucharz, Jean Claude Lefevre, Jacques Lennep, Jacques Lizène, Lyn Mandelbaum, Valcárcel Medina, Antoni Muntadas, Ian Murray, Maurizio Nannucci, Mitra Naraghi, Floris M. Neusüss, Charlemagne Palestine, Carles Pazos, Fabrizio Plessi, Stephen Ruppenthal, Juliao Sarmento, John H. Schuetz, Zdzislaw Sosnowski, Ernesto de Sousa, Al Sousa, Diane Spodarek, Seth Tillett, Franco Vaccari, Ben Vautier, Lawrence Weiner, Larry Wendt

"A Spoken Space" is a series of exhibitions during two years which set in action the combination of the telephone network, the symbolic place of the gallery and an artist whose piece was specially conceived for this program. Each exhibition or imaginary installation was broadcast night and day for eight days by the automatic answering-device. The goal of this program was to highlight the transition from one mode of perception to another: the transformation of a 'fictitious visual space' into its 'actual verbal representation'. In accordance with the fundamental idea of this project, you will find here, instead of a pressed record, the totality of the 'records' furnished by each artist