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No Answer is collaboration between mixed media artist Martine Corompt and sound designer/composer Philip Brophy. The work results from a commission from the 2006 Laneways Project, organised by the City of Melbourne Public Arts Programme. From the original submission, this outdoor public site-specific installation is described:
"A dead-end lane-way. From the main street you hear the faint ringing of a public phone. As you near the mouth of a dead-end laneway, the ringing is clearer. It is not one phone: it sounds more a mass of phones, chiming intermittently. Now standing at the mouth of the laneway, you see a cluster of public phones, each covered by their Perspex dome. These domed-phones are distributed across the laneway's end-wall at varying heights, between two to four stories high. All are completely inaccessible. All the phones continue to chime intermittently, gently filling the spatial volume of the laneway space. Unable to reach or pick-up the receivers, you are left listening to the sound of ringing - the sound of no answer."
No Answer is installed in Lush Lane - off Flinders Lane between Russell and Swanston Sts. Melbourne City - from July 2006 through to September 2006 inclusive.
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