3 Final days / go to Café Berkhout in Amsterdam and wait for a call from Dakar / a work by 29 artists at the DAI, as part of Three Artists Walk Into A Bar, curated by the Black Swan / the De Appel's Curatorial Training Program 2011-2012

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The Black Swan collective (De Appel Curatorial Programme 2011/2012) is proud to present 'THREE ARTISTS WALK INTO A BAR...', a series of works and interventions that take place outside of the premises of the exhibition space, framed by public Saturday events at de Appel Boys' School and assembled here. April 13 - May 12, 2012.

Public Telephone is a framework to facilitate all artists currently working at the Dutch Art Institute / MFA ArtEZ to produce new work, on their own terms, within its parameters. It takes the form of a 'public' telephone located somewhere in the public space of Amsterdam. The telephone will receive incoming calls, ringing out loud when it does, and be operational for the duration of the DAI workshops in Dakar in Senegal as they coincide with the duration of the exhibition – i.e. 3–13 May. All Dutch Art Institute / MFA ArtEZ students will be able to make a call to this public telephone in Amsterdam at any time during the day or night during the period that it is operational and to offer some form of audio work by this means. Nobody will know exactly when a call will be made and obviously there is no guarantee that the ringing telephone would be answered. There are no criteria or restrictions as to what this audio work could be. Perhaps they would describe the place they are calling from in Dakar, perhaps they would play a pre-recorded audio work down the line, perhaps they would have a conversation with the person in Amsterdam who happens to pick up the telephone when it is ringing or ask them to do something or relay something to other people who might also be passing by. Maybe they would even tell a joke. It is the artists' choice.

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