More info

Zubin Kanga

Philip Venables

In Answer Machine Tape, 1987 Philip Venables works in an original style with messages on an answering machine and a ‘cyborg’ piano that uses sensors to double as a typewriter. His piece gives a painful glimpse into the life of the American artist David Wojnarowicz. The tape in question contains answerphone messages recorded in the days preceding the death of his ex-partner, photographer Peter Hujar, from Hujar himself, other artists, friends and partners. Indirectly they provide us with a heartrending testimony from inside the New York art scene in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

As part of Sounds Now

Co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union under Sounds Now

Fri 18 Oct 2024 · 22:30
STUK

Programme

Venables: Answer Machine Tape, 1987

Share this event