Artists Statement

Light and sound installation 2007

A Day Without the Mobile Phone is a light and sound project in public space, where mobile phones will be gathered from city folks and hung on a tree for 24 hours. To participate in creating the work you can drop off your phone on 26 August, from 19:00h on, to be hung on the tree in front of the Reinoldikirche. You can call your friends (with a public phone!) who have done the same and thus make their mobiles shine in the tree. Further numbers of special phones which already hang in the tree are announced to the public to create a colourful and polyphonic ring-tone concert. Free yourself and and enjoy one day without your mobile phone!

• You Must Relax is Eve Arpo & Riin Rõõs  (EE), an architect and a media artist working together since 2007. Eve Arpo’s interest lies between art and architecture. Whatever the medium, her focus is on working with space. She studied architecture at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, contemporary dance at Fine5 Dance Theatre and new media at Estonian Academy of Arts. Riin Rõõs’ main interest is in the combination of participation and media in art. She has created art and culture projects in several institutions. Rõõs graduated in public relations from Tallinn Technical University and new media from Estonian Academy of Arts. Her thesis is based on A Day Without the Mobile Phone.

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