A day without the mobile-phone [Eve Arpo & Riin Kranna-Rõõs / Estonia]
Can we call eating an addiction – A day without a mobile-phone is rather like a diet – a day when you don’t eat, but only drink water. It is good to hang your phone on a tree for one day and manage life on your own.
“A day without the mobile-phone” is an installation in public space that is made up of one hundred cell-phones collected from the people in the city. The phones are hanged on a tree next to St. John’s church (Jaani kirik) where they create a light- and sound-installation.
To participate in creating the installation you may give your cell-phone to be hanged on the tree and you may call your friends who have done the same. It is also possible to call public mobile-phone numbers that have been opened specially for the installation.
“A day without the mobile-phone” does not take a black-and-white stance on blaming the mobile-phone addiction – instead it attempts to create a discussion. The installation may lead to the conclusion that we use our phones too much, or it may prove that mobile-phones add an important value to our lives.
We would like to evaluate the role of the mobile-phone by taking a few steps and looking at it from a distance.
The public mobile-phone numbers that you can call to participate in this project are:
(+372) 58 298 339
(+372) 58 298 409
(+372) 58 298 442
(+372) 58 298 456
(+372) 58 298 466
(+372) 58 298 467
(+372) 58 298 472
(+372) 58 013 296
(+372) 58 031 074
(+372) 55 979 041
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