Boundary Maintenance

Telephone booth as a Private Distractor

BRIEF


How does religion, culture, personal values and philosophy set one's physical boundaries? This action re-creates a physical private space in public. The nostalgic telephone booth is a symbol of a period prior to mobile technolgies is used. People pay 5 cents to enter the booth to have a moment of privacy.

ACTION
1. A portable telephone booth will be placed in a public square. Performers will advertise a private moment of 5 minutes inside the booth for 5 cents. This will be documented by video.
2. Participants will design/propose their own private attractors to wear/use in public.

REFERENCES
i-Safety: 03:53-06:44
Textually.org
Moveable Types


By wearing the mobile phone scarf, you can venture into public spaces confident that if the need to compose a private text message were to arise the object could be pulled over the face to create an isolated environment. By WMMNA

PRIVACY CATEGORIES

a. as physical -place, space boundaries, solitude
ie. a room of one’s own, an unshared office space, a bathroom stall

b. as psychological -control over thoughts and emotions
ie. freedom of expression, make individual decisions

c. as informational –ownership/protection and security against public knowledge
ie. 100% encryption software, password protection, anonymity