20 December 2002

Carey Young amongst Beck's Futures 2003 shortlist Includes Carey Young "a businesswoman and artist, who staged her disappearance and invited visitors to use the gallery phone to ring a call centre staffed by 30 agents to track her". Adrian Searle, reviewing Young's work in the Nothing show in April 2001: Carey Young's works, meanwhile, lead us into the bureaucratic bindweed of Kafka and Orwell. She has taken over an office at the NGCA, and one is invited to sit at the desk, glare at the pot-plant and ring a call centre, where a bemused operative answers questions about the artist. But only bland questions, not the ones I want to ask. And on one of those office whiteboards, beloved of sales execs, Young has listed those nothing phrases that keep you forever on hold: "I won't keep you a moment; I'm just accessing those details; just bear with me ..." Interesting; more on art and/in telephony and business to come. 12:05:03 PM     comments