A Short Message Spectacle (An SMS)

A Short Message Spectacle is an imaginary performance lasting 16 days, with each of its scenes described by text message, relayed as virtual events taking place through the day and night in diverse locations across an equally imaginary city. The audience for this extraordinary work are subscribers to a special phone number, and the events of the performance are summoned by text message alone, described and unfolding via a series of missives each day.

For 'An SMS' the artist, performance maker and writer Tim Etchells pulls out all the stops to create an event in which the audience is a kind of imaginative co-author and the landscape in which they live becomes a setting for and a part of the performance itself.