Psychopomp Projects

This show is gonna be SICK! Hope you can join us on Sunday!

SUNDAY SERVICE - at the Chapel of Immaculate Bombast Music by REPOSADO, Tekla Waterfield, & Tito Ramsey on the Wurlitzer. Readings by Dujie Tahat, Susan Rich, Paul Mullin, & Kate Clark.

TONIGHT you don’t want to miss ALIVE INSIDE, an open mic hosted by You Are Going To Die, a San Francisco based group I DEEPLY admire. Their focus on metabolizing grief and loss through arts is spectacularly important. Despite expectations, their events are always so staggeringly joyful!

Moreover, some of my very favorite people / artists will be there including Nick Jaina and Chelsea Coleman (both TELEPHONE musicians) as well as the extremely well inspiring Ned Buskirk. and others. I might actually sing a song!

This is all to benefit Alive Inside, a program for community impacted by the prison system, in association w/ Washington Community Action Network.

Can barely imagine anything so needed right now and hope you’ll come on down to both listen and to share your gifts. Love y’all and see you there!

International Open Call for All Art Forms:

TELEPHONE is an arts game and experiment based on the children’s game in which a message is whispered from person to person. In our game, a message is whispered from art form to art form, so a message could become poetry, then, painting, then music, then film, photography, prose, dance, sculpture, and any other form of art. Artists are only aware of the work that directly precedes their own. When an artist sends back their finished translation, we then assign that work to two or three other artists on the other side of the earth, so the network of the game expands exponentially.

TELEPHONE will be published as an interactive online exhibition in October 2025, having run for one year. It will be the first time any of the artists see what preceded their work and what came after it. There are currently 1,200 artists playing from 687 cities in 60 countries, though we could easily accommodate thousands of more players in the coming months. There is no money involved, either for our team of volunteers or for artists. We are not affiliated with any companies or organizations. You can read about our previous games in publications like The New York Times, Seattle Times, Hyperallergic, La Nacion, Los Angeles Daily News, CentoTorri, Poets & Writers Magazine, and many other outlets.

You can browse our last exhibition, published in 2021, at “phonebook.gallery”

Applying to play is free and only takes a few minutes. We hope you’ll join us and share this gorgeous game with any brilliant artists and art groups you know.

Application link in bio.

Can’t wait to play with you!

Hey buddies! So here’s the situation, four months in…

Just about 1000 artists are playing TELEPHONE, either finished or working on their artistic contributions now. These very real people are from 576 very real cities in 53 very real countries.

But we currently only have 35 artists waiting to play TELEPHONE.

The truth is, we could easily accommodate 10,000 artists if they applied to play today. Our little, brilliant team could handle it and we are planning to keep playing through September.

The only thing holding us back is signing up every single artist in the world. Our tiny team will do its very best. But I can’t say anyone on our tiny team knows how to find that many artists. Our only real hope now is word-of-mouth, of artists recommending the game to their friends.

Keep in mind that there is ZERO money involved. Nobody is turning a profit on TELEPHONE. And yet, we have the chance to create the largest international exhibition of original and interconnected works in history.

That’s bananas, super poignant in the time we find ourselves, beautiful and exceptionally funny. If you believe in this project, believe it’s a good thing in the world, inspiring artists connections across the planet… well, our gorgeous little crew could use yr help NOW.

Please send the application link to any and every beautiful artist you know.

https://artists.telephonegame.art/

xo TELEPHONE - January 15, 2025