07 bufardeci 2006 detail5

13 captured telephone conversations - all one minute long (2006)

machine embroideries, each 13 x 18 cm

Warrantless, wireless, telephone tapping – how does it affect the sanctity of the domestic space? 13 captured telephone conversations – all one minute long captures the sense of paranoia generated by the idea that anyone could be listening in, anytime. These particular thirteen conversations are sourced from a mixture of conversations from history known to have been tapped, conversations from my private home, and conversations between abstract people.

This series was exhibited in the exhibition The Unquiet World, curated by Juliana Engberg, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in 2006.