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Louche Ops is proud to present Sam Cottington’s Ef.
Ef is an arrangement of art objects and architectural alterations that situate and will be situated by a series of four plays. The plays will be performed in the space during and surpassing the exhibition’s duration.
In Cottington’s most recently published collection of writings, Phone Plays, the characters perform into their phones or, at least, perform while holding phones up to their heads. The scripts represent what are ostensibly half–conversations, even though each monologue includes the entirety of what is written on the page. Time feels distended, partially because the experience of listening to a stranger speak on the phone is a shrinking feature of the experience of public space. The ubiquity of telephones, within reach at almost every moment of waking life, is countered by the paradoxical obsolescence of their initial use as devices meant to enable…
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Louche Ops is proud to present Sam Cottington’s Ef.
Ef is an arrangement of art objects and architectural alterations that situate and will be situated by a series of four plays. The plays will be performed in the space during and surpassing the exhibition’s duration.
In Cottington’s most recently published collection of writings, Phone Plays, the characters perform into their phones or, at least, perform while holding phones up to their heads. The scripts represent what are ostensibly half–conversations, even though each monologue includes the entirety of what is written on the page. Time feels distended, partially because the experience of listening to a stranger speak on the phone is a shrinking feature of the experience of public space. The ubiquity of telephones, within reach at almost every moment of waking life, is countered by the paradoxical obsolescence of their initial use as devices meant to enable…
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