Surrounded
by paintings by the Belgian Surrealists Magritte and Delvaux, the
artist stands before two side-by-side red and blue telephones. He
picks up the receiver of the blue telephone and dials the number
of a correspondent in Brussels, whom he asks to transmit a message,
made up entirely of gibberish, to a second correspondent in Cologne.
The same message is successively transmitted by phone to ten more
correspondents stationed in different cities around the world, the
last of whom calls the artist on the red phone 42 minutes and 30
seconds later.