Beepez-le
public intervention
Conducted in the capital city of Yaounde, Cameroon, this project was created with the assistance of a purpose-built collective, the S.D.C.D. (Society for Direct Communication with the Divine). Our work consisted of handmade street signs, in the chalk and luan style of local market signage, advertising a cellphone number for God and inviting people to "beep him." Beeping is a Cameroonian method of communication designed to bypass cell phone providers billing systems, using a sequence of missed calls to create a context sensitive code capable of a broad range of communications. We installed a video projector in downtown Yaoundé that was linked to God's cell phone via a live-feed camera. The members of the S.D.C.D. hosted debates nearby the installation, the video link below offers excerpts from some of their interviews with participants.