Conversation Piece

Continuing a series of performances which examines the viewers attention to narrative by withholding the visual content of the cinema experience, Christine Sullivan and Rob Flint propose a work exploring listening as surveillance, and the overlapping of listening and overhearing as intentional acts. Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film, The Conversation is a narrative of listening and overhearing. It is also a record of a time when wiretapping and amplified listening were tools of espionage, and crime-fighting, when the data was temporal, and when communications were 'bugged', rather than 'hacked'. Now a renewed interest in the politics of privacy and surveillance in the age of the Internet brings further significance to this paranoiac tale of the listener's implication within what is overheard.Free entrance.