Jan van der Marck (b. 1929, USA – d. 2010, USA)
Art by Telephone, 1969

Exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago where artistic interventions were mediated via telephone.

While telephone does not come across as a promising artistic medium nowadays, I find peculiar parallels to some of my projects – or, perhaps, more experiments at this stage – conducted over contemporary means of communication like WhatsApp, Zoom etc. Perhaps this parallel could even serve as an impetus to present all those experiments together and/or conduct new ones with that particular intention in mind. This seems particularly relevant at the times of social isolation…