The Payphone Memorial

The Payphone Memorial: The video clips.

Nine - soon to be dismantled - pay phones in Kyoto, Berlin and Linz have been converted into transitorial memorial sites for people to have their souvenir photo taken. That is commonly refered to as Collective Landmarking.

Below is a collection of movie clips that illustrate the lively Payphone Memorials realized in Japan in early summer 2007. This time the video cam didn't interfere with the action at all since it was all about camera work and framing a slice of the mundane... Roger Walch and Edgar Franz assisted me once more as indispensible camera men during several events to make this happen. When I find the time for more video editing I will add the clips from Berlin and Linz as well - just bear with me.

Kyoto Matsugata Shotengai [#7] (June 22, 2007, 6:30min, 26.2MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Kyoto Sanjo Shotengai [#6] (May 25, 2007, 3:30min, 16.1MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Kyoto Arashiyama North [#5] (May 20, 2007, 4:09min, 17.3MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Kyoto Kitano-tenamangu Shrine [#4] (May 19, 2007, 8:51min, 16.8MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Kyoto Seika University [#3] (May 18, 2007, 3:19min, 13.4MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Kyoto Kawabata-dori [#2] (May 13, 2007, 5:41min, 22.9MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Kyoto Gingakuji-mae [#1] (May 12, 2007, 5:02min, 20.1MB)
videosClick below to watch.

Momentarium Movie.

Momentarium chemistry
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Each moment of the everyday, every action of living, poses the question: how it might be lived differently, more truthfully and respectfully. Through conscious interventions Momentarium provides a forum of inquiry on human coexistence.

Momentarium is an ever-growing archive and with time all of the following links will be populated:

Project 7a10m/e

t.h.a.n.k.s.*

Returning the Negatives

Given To You: Tea Moments

Shadow Followers

Have a Tea – Leave a Trace

Forbidden Art

Urban Mining

First Impression

The Payphone Memorial

Wind Machine

Life on the Roll

At Your Service

One Stone a Day

Check and Balance

Tactile Island

The Lost Wallet

Camera on Wheels

Yukkurism [go slow]

Roundabout Tracing

GroundWork

Where's the Monkey?

Cleaning the Bath House

Discarded Treasures

Desert Colors