| "... Some confuse conversation with talking, of course, and go on for the rest of their lives, never stopping, boring others with meaningless chatter and complaints. But real conversation includes asking questions, and the right questions..." (C Schulz) |
The idea of the phone, of the answering machines and of the pre-recorded messages connects with the principle of communications that was at the base of our work. A phone is a material element that connects two people in the act of making / receiving a phone call, through a complex mechanism of wires, plugs and impulses. In a similar way our bodies have been, every time, vehicles of information concerning ourselves and the other person. Through the contact of our muscles, skin, clothes, through the transmission of stimuli, messages were passed onto each other. The communication was sometimes clear, explicit, without interruptions, other times difficult, blurred, impossible. However, it was thanks to the unsatisfactory "calls" that we learnt what the other body would not respond to, and what out own being would like to react to. Every arising problem was turned into a question, whose answer led us to move a step forward in our acquaintance.