Preparing a meal according to Julie Upmeyers’ skype instructions.

New technologies appear to make faraway or global connections easier than ever.
How close can you get without physical proximity?

Long Distance Call looks at the possibilities generated for instruction pieces by wifi, webcam etcetera. We focus on the possibilities for instruction works in contemporary art: works developed by one artist and realized, over distance, by another. More specifically we want to find out how intimate, intruding or locally embedded such works can get. Can collaborations overcome physical distances, and expand our creative possibilities?

Curated with Daniel Dennis de Wit. Participating artists:  Feiko Beckers (NL), David Horvitz (USA), Annegret Kellner (DE), Julie Upmeyer (USA / lives and works in Turkey), Lee Walton (USA)

All photographs by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk.

Feiko Beckers reads Lee Walton. Long Distance Call, 2009.

David Horvitz and Annegret Kellner. Long Distance Call, 2009.

Annegret Kellner and Davit Horvitz. Long Distance Call, 2009.