Telephone Poles

Telephone Poles is a long-duration participatory performance in which the artist and members of the public work together to untangle a long thread and roll its two ends onto identical wooden cylinders.

To reach the unmarked midpoint of the thread, they continually compare the weight of the cylinders using a balance scale.

The performance concludes with the two connected thread spools resting in balance on each side of the scale, with the midpoint indicated by the scale’s pointer.

Part of Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ)
Výstaviště Industrial Palace, Prague, Czech Republic (June 2019)