Call-to-Connect

Human connection is as easy as dialing 1-2-3…..

"Call-to-Connect began as an exploration of the playground talking tube. I wanted to create a site for spontaneous interaction, for unity, for play. From re-circuiting the phones to designing the phonebooks, Call-to-Connect is a meditation on human connection as a material entity. The phones consist of over 100 audio and visual samples from the Yale community and from my own life, all with the theme of connection. Over the past year, I’ve worked with Larry Wilen and fabricator David Johnson on getting these phones up and running. I think of the payphones as two bodies, where each is an individual site for collective memory." Soleil Piverger

Call-to-Connect is a site-specific interactive sculpture installed in the Rotunda at Yale Schwarzman Center. 

Call-to-Connect  was made possible by the Class of 1982 Cowles Summer Fellowship, the Creative and Performing Arts Grants (CPA) from Davenport College, and the Student Ecosystem Fund from Tsai City.

Special thanks to Yale Engineering, Yale School of Art, Yale Peabody Museum, Committee on Art in Public Spaces at Yale University (CAPS), Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), Luckey Climbers, and Giorno Poetry Systems (John Giorno Archives).