Series:

Living Absent in New-York

Creator:

Ruy Blas

Performer:

Ruy Blas

Producer:

Ruy Blas

Website:

//ruyblas.fr

Theoretical background:

This action initiates a series of three connections of Niçoise telephone booths with New York telephone booths:

Téléphonages Nice - New York, 1983

Dialogues over the telephone between anonymous crowds, 1984

New-York telephone self portraits, 1985

Occurence:

Starting date:

1983

1983/10

Topology:

street

Adress:

cabine téléphonique

Nice

France

4 cassettes audio

Synopsis / Description:

4 cassettes audio

RUY_BL

Documents:

Compte-rendu manuscrit du téléphonage Nice - New-York du 12 septembre 1983

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

Compte-rendu manuscrit du téléphonage Nice - New-York du 12 septembre 1983

RUY_BL

Compte rendu manuscrit du téléphonage Nice - New-York du 22 septembre 1983

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

Compte rendu manuscrit du téléphonage Nice - New-York du 22 septembre 1983

RUY_BL

Texte d'intention

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

Texte d'intention

RUY_BL

listing des différentes actions, démarches faisant partie de la série <em>Living Absent in New-York</em>

Type:

Imprimé

Technique description référence:

listing des différentes actions, démarches faisant partie de la série <em>Living Absent in New-York</em>

RUY_BL

Description:

Series of telephonaging between myself, a Niçois artist and the anonymous crowd of New York via five New York public telephone booths located in five main avenues of this city, I make contact with anonymous New Yorkers who have enough sense of humor and curiosity to pick up the receiver of this public telephone ringing in the air; once the contact was established – often with difficulty – I introduce myself and explain quickly to them the purpose of the telephonaging:

Hello,

Your attention please, just for a few seconds I'm calling from a French Public telephone box just to tell through a New-Yorker telephone box, some anonymous New-Yorkers, a few words.

I'm an Artist, an Artist in Sociology.

My artistic name is : Ruy Blas.

I'm calling you from the city of Nice on the French Riviera.

My artistic work is about : Nice-New York by phone.

Its goal is to create a link between me, French artist and the anonymous crowd of New York City, you belong to I now, the link is created, thank you for answering.

Ruy Blas

A history of performance art on the Riviera from 1951 until now

Telephonagings Nice – New York

4 cassettes audio

Compte-rendu manuscrit du téléphonage Nice - New-York du 12 septembre 1983

Compte rendu manuscrit du téléphonage Nice - New-York du 22 septembre 1983

Texte d'intention

listing des différentes actions, démarches faisant partie de la série <em>Living Absent in New-York</em>