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Lily Hibberd, HIBBERD, Lily and TAYLOR, Curtis

The Phone Booth Project

Doc. expérimental | hdv | | 14:7 | Australie | 2012

The Phone Booth Project A collaboration between Lily Hibberd and Curtis Taylor The Phone Booth Project presents the special and quotidian role of phone booths in remote Western Desert communities from the perspective of the Martu people living there. Realised as a theatrical installation, three video screens create an immersion into physical sensation and happenings around the booths. Working collaboratively with Martu communities we have made a video installation that explores the use of phone booths in these remote desert regions. A rare insight into the independence and adaptation of modern telecommunications by Martu people across the vast Western Desert of aboriginal Australia.

understanding significant Australian historical events and sites. Her reflexive and collaborative, projects investigate collective, historical, philosophical and psychological aspects of memory and time. Since 2011, she has been commissioned ten community art projects. Lily has an established international career, exhibiting frequently in solo and curated exhibitions, most recently presenting the Ice Pendulum at the Paris Nuit Blanche. She is currently working with the Musée des arts et Métiers on a solo project for their 2015 exhibition on Measures of Time. She is represented by Galerie de Roussan, Paris. Curtis TAYLOR is an actor, emerging film writer/director and a young Martu leader. He is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Culture, Communications and Media at Murdoch University. Curtis has worked as Community Coordinator and Youth Development Officer at Martu Media (a division of Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa), where he spent 18 months working on `Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route` as a filmmaker and youth ambassador. Curtis was the recipient of 2011 Western Australian Youth Art Award and Wesfarmers Youth Scholarship.