A Telephone Hotline, A Vinyl Record, A Performance

Is anyone out there? Is anyone listening? Are we alone? In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecrafts to try and answer these questions. Aboard both is the Golden Record, an artifact intended to communicate who and what we are. After almost 50 years and over 13 billion miles, this proverbial message in a bottle is the farthest human-made object from earth. If we were to send another message into the distant future, what message would we send?

To answer this, Mitu created a public telephone hotline (646-694-8050) prompting people to leave messages to the future. Utopian Hotline uses these voicemails alongside interviews with NASA astronauts, astrophysicists, astronomers, and middle school students to create a moment of community. This project invites audience members to gather under the dome of The Franklin Institute’s Fels Planetarium to re-imagine our shared future.

Call 646-694-8050 to answer the question: “How do you imagine a more perfect future?” These anonymous messages may be used as part of this or another performance of Utopian Hotline.

SUPPORT

Icon Producers
Mark and Tobey Dichter
Legend Producers
The Janet Yaseen Foundation
Star Producers
David Seltzer
Executive Producers
Carol Klein
Chris Deephouse and Donna Hunt