Ühesõnaga, kui Eestist helistada numbril +447758225698, on harukordne võimalus kuulata laivis Euroopa suurima, Vatnajokulli jääliustiku, sulamist. Tegemist on Katie Petersoni ettevõtmisega “Vatnajokull (the sound of)”. Helistada saab UK aja järgi kella kaheksani homme õhtul. Korraga pääseb kuulama vaid üks helistaja, helistada saab üle maailma. Seega enamus ajast on liin kinni, aga on võimalik ühendust saada küll;) Reedene Guardani uudislugu siin. Enamähem ametlik pressiteade allpool. Kõnele kehtib tavaline paketipõhine hind.

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Virgin Mobile has announced a partnership with Slade Art School graduate, Katie Paterson, who is creating unique sound work that uses mobile phone technology to enable people to listen live to the sound of Vatnajokull, Europe’s largest glacier, melting in Iceland.

The work, entitled ‘Vatnajokull (the sound of)’, will be on display at the Slade Gallery and will feature a large white neon sign of a mobile phone number (07758225698) which is linked to a microphone with mobile phone interface embedded in a polar ice cap in the Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon.

The number can be dialled and listened to live from any phone in the world and only one person can be ‘connected’ to the glacier at anyone time. This offers the listener a beautiful and intimate moment.

As Katie describes it, “Listening live is integral to my work, listening to the glacier melting, as it actually happens; there’s an immediacy, a directness…I could provide access to the temporal nature of its decay…the vanishing away of the world”.

Katie has spent much of the last few years in Iceland and was inspired by stories from people who talked about Europe’s largest glacier “breaking off” and being able to “watch it melt”.

Commenting on the project, Simon Dornan, Head of Consumer PR at Virgin Mobile said: “When Katie first approached us, I absolutely loved the idea. While mobile technology is at the heart of it, it’s great to get people thinking and talking about the mobile phone in a cultural, rather than functional context”.

‘Vatnajokull (the sound of)’ is showing at the Slade School of Fine Art, Gower Street, London. Open to the public: 7-13 June, 10am-8pm (Mon-Fri) and 10am-6pm (Sat-Sun). Private viewing (for press) 5 June, 6-9pm. Admittance is free; calls to the glacier are at standard international rates.

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