Call a fjell!

August 2nd will be the grand opening of Telemegaphone Dale, a seven-metres tall loudspeaker sculpture on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway. Anyone can dial the Telemegaphoneís phone number and have the sound of their voice projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale.

Your call to the Telemegaphone goes through directly, a bright light at the top of the pole is lit, and your voice rings out across the valley. The installation is open for calls day and night until 6 September 2008.

The Telemegaphone is a communication monument in a deliberate limbo between permanent public art installation and commercial phone service, says Erik Sandelin at Unsworn Industries, an interaction design and innovation studio based in Malmö, Sweden. Even in Dale, a small village in the rural fjord-lands of Western Norway, the world can interfere, uncensored, at any moment.

The Telemegaphone is the first product from Unsworn Industries´ new telecom division. Unsworn Telecom develops products and services for beautiful and surprising telecommunications.

Anyone can call Telemegaphone Dale and use it as they wish. The installation is an open, un-anxious interface that allows callers to temporarily control a large public sound space, says Magnus Torstensson of Unsworn Telecom. We are curious as to who will call and what they will say. Will heartbroken teenagers unburden their heavy hearts across the mountainous terrain? Will Norwegian black metal-bands share their latest songs, or will the local politicians read the protocol from the last municipal meeting? Perhaps an ex-Daleite calls from Kabul to greet old friends?

The phone number for Telemegaphone Dale will be published at www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone during the opening at August 2.

Telemegaphone Dale is curated by Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir and is the first in a series of events produced by nkd - the nordic artists´ centre in dale to celebrate 10 years of creative activity 1998 - 2008.

For more information please contact Unsworn Industries´ Erik Sandelin (+46737038251, erik@unsworn.org) or nkd´s Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir (+47 41435203, nordisk.kunst@c2i.net).