Crossline I
by Sara Lana, Lumpen station residents in 2022
Crosslines is a series of 3 sound pieces created from calls made to public telephones all over the world.
Multiple calls made to recipients hitherto unknown or even non-existent.
The phones were found using maps with panoramic views of public spaces. The number of each phone was retrieved by crossing its coordinates identified on the route with information collected in the database of phone directories (yellow pages) of each country.
The first piece of this series was created calling to some Spanish speaking countries such as Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Mexico and Spain.
Sara Lana is a Brazilian artist and developer. She studied Mathematics and Electric Engineering. Her projects lie in the convergence of art and technology. She often uses multiple supports, especially sound, electronics and video, having illustration and cartography as important elements throughout her creative process.
Sara was awarded the Akademie Solitude 2024 fellowship and the Bolsa Pampulha fellowship (Pampulha Art Museum, Brazil), when she developed and exhibited her project ‘Species of Spaces’. She was also an artist-in-residence in several spaces dedicated to art, sound and technology in Br, Chile, Mx, Romania and Switzerland. Her project ‘Blind Spots’ was hosted by RedBullStation (2017, Brazil), MediaLabMX (2018, México), CCD – Center of Digital Culture (2019, México), among others. Her sound installation ‘Antonyms Machine’ was exhibited at Oi Futuro (2019, Rio de Janeiro) and Sesc (2018–2022, Minas Gerais and São Paulo states).
Her sound pieces were broadcasted in radios all over the world, such as Orelhinha (2021, Br), presented at ‘Seres Rios Festival’ – BDMG (2021, Brazil) and ‘Mutt Dogs’ (2017, Brazil, produced by Arte Radio) presented in avant-première at Centre Pompidou (2018, France) and nominated to Phonurgia Nova Awards (2018, France).
