Karaoke Wrong Number (Vol. II 2005-2009)

This body of work came about after I received a spate of wrong number calls left on my answering machine. I couldn’t bear to erase these messages: humorous, poignant, unnerving or mundane; each had an urgency I wanted to address. Issues of privacy, identity, expectations, and assumptions fueled my interest. I transcribed, memorized and then lip-synced all the wrong-number messages left for me over the course of about four years. This is the second in the series; the first is in the collection of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. – RP New York, NY 2020