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Figure 7: Rönkkö, N.S. 6 Months Call for our Non-Stop World, which ran between October 2019 and
Without (2018–2019) artist's correspondence, February 2020 (co-curated by Sarah Cook for Somerset House, Cook,
in the exhibition 24/7 at Somerset House, 2019.
Photo (c) Tim Bowditch 2019). Additionally, on the artist’s website, there are two video works
exploring the performative experience of these six months offline,
and the abundance of correspondence the project generated.
Documenting the artist’s experience of living for six months without
the internet, 6 Months Without is an expanded performance engaging
artistic, social, and technological network practices differently at each
stage of its production, distribution, and reception. The work articulates
the extent to which networked cultural experience and knowledge pro-
duction has become ubiquitous as its platforms providing the interface
of much of our social relations. Networked artists once built bespoke
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