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Pay Phone Revival Project Opening Bike Tour!

Presented by Pump Project Art Complex at Various Locations

November 13, 2010

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Artists give abandoned payphone booths a new purpose

Abandoned pay phone booths linger on street corners and outside of convenience stores, waiting for a new purpose and meaning to be assigned to them. The Pay Phone Revival Project has repurposed 7 abandoned pay phone booths with the help of 11 local artists. The art interventions display diverse approaches to art-making and all bring unique beauty to the forgotten parts of the urban landscape.

Join the Pay Phone Revival Project and the Yellow Bike Project for the opening bike tour and Yellow bike release on November 13th at 3:00 at El Chilito (2219 Manor). We will begin our bicycle exploration of all the art interventions at El Chilito and will end at the Pump Project Art Complex (72 Shady Lane)

The installations will be on view from November 13th 2010 through April 2011. Visit the project website to print a map of the installations and embark on your own tour www.payphonerevival.com, or find us in the East Austin Studio Tour Map and guide.

Project Descriptions:

El Chilito 2219 Manor Road
¡el grupo!, an Austin based collective of architects, designers, and craftsmen will reactivate a public space by reinventing the phone booth from a two way verbal communication mechanism to a mechanism that encourages play as physical communication - a see saw. The see-saw will be particularly eye catching due to it’s resemblance to a giant mustache.

El Chilito 2219 Manor Road
J.P. Marquardt will transform an abandoned payphone booth into a cabinet of East-side curiosities. Visit J.P. Marquardt’s blog www.thecabinetonchestnutandmanor.blogspot.com to submit your East-side curiosity.

Lucky Lady Bingo 1107 N I-35
Lindsay Palmer is interested in the intersection between human made structures and organic forms. She will transform a payphone booth into a structure to support bean plants. The structure will also display an abstract topographical map.

Urban Market 1905 E 12th Street
Artist K.A. Sheehan will work with wheat paste and screen printing to install imagery of non-native but abundant Monk Parakeets on two abandoned payphone booths. Sheehan is intrigued by Monk Parakeets as an example of nature’s ongoing adaption to an increasingly man-made and mediated landscape.

East Side Liquor 1199 Airport Blvd
Jamie Panzer will create the illusion that the payphone booth has vanished or is in the process of dematerializing. This will catch the viewer off guard, change their perspective and provoke a shift in perception of the immediate environment.

East 1st Grocery 1811 Cesar Chavez
Briar Bonifico will create a site-specific intervention on the side of the East 1st Grocery… anticipation is building.

Stop N’ Get 2731 Cesar Chavez
Jennifer Quarles and John Quarles will create an interactive installation called ‘Please Leave a Message’. In ‘Please Leave a Message’ an abandoned phone booth will become the protagonist in her own story about adapting to change after her pay phone has been removed. Using text, imagery and audio, ‘Please Leave a Message’ will chronicle the phone booth’s experience as she overcomes her sense of isolation and attempts to connect with the community in a new way. The viewer will be invited to ‘leave a message’ in response to the phone booth. These messages will be incorporated into the work, allowing the viewer to become part of the phone booth’s story over the course of the installation period.

Artist List
Briar Bonifico
¡el grupo! (Davey McEathron, Charles Melanson, John Algood, Nicolas Rivard)
J.P. Marquardt
Lindsay Palmer
Jamie Panzer
Jennifer Quarles and John Quarles
K.A. Sheehan

The Pay Phone Revival Project is being presented by the Pump Project Art Complex. This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division. Generous support was also contributed by the Texas Pay Phone Association, TeleNational Inc, and the East Austin Studio Tour.