7 Rings: An
Artist’s Game of Telephone
7 Days, 7 Artists, 7 Rings, is a living, responsive work of
art created by Rebecca
Campbell and Nicole
Walker. Each week the painter and poet, respectively, alternate
kicking off the current week’s collaborative artist project. Painters and
poets, photographers and essayists, musicians and story writers link their works. For example, a poet may be presented with a video and asked to write a poem in response; the poem in turn is shown to an artist, and the chain continues. The responses came daily, with
artists having only twenty-four hours of rtesponse time. Begun in 2010 and reprised in 2011, the
project is archived here (or at htttp://bekandnik.wordpress.com.) Ms Campbell and Ms Walker plan a new round of Telephone to start soon. — DL.