This text resulted from an experimental game of feminist “telephone,” used as a labor- and energy-saving device. Confronting the difficulty of getting multiple professional minds and bodies together across time zones (from West Coast USA to the UK) and space, we held one initial video meeting to discuss the prompt. We then relayed a text, one to the next – copy-paste, then edit, pass it on, copy-paste, edit, repeat. As in any game of telephone, the “message” gets garbled and transformed. At the end, four members of the collective met online. Together, that group worked to interpret the message – from ourselves, through ourselves, to ourselves – into a publishable and “deliverable” text that could be further interpreted by readers. To (try and) make sense. Together.
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Feminist Art and Architecture Collective (FAAC), “Feminist Telephone: A Labor-Saving Device” in Ghosn, R., Vronskaya, A., Jia, R., Pohl, E. B., Dharia, N. V., Aidoo, F. S., … Wolff, I. (2024). The Afterlife of Energy: Post-carbon and Feminist Post-work Politics. Journal of Architectural Education, 78(2), 638–648.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10464883.2024.2382059
Figure: Feminist Telephone, Susanō Hideko Surface, 2024 for FAAC.
Martina Tanga 