The Brick presents
You Have One New Voice Message
An interactive Installation by Bethany “B” Wu
Brick Aux Gallery
March 8-28, 2026

You Have One New Voice Message is an interactive installation that inhabits the tender threshold between connection and longing. A perimeter of landline telephones invites visitors to reach across distance — to listen, to call, and to leave their own words behind for an unknown ear. Each encounter is uncertain: a line may ring endlessly, a voice may answer, or a voicemail prompt will greet you — and into that prompt, visitors are asked to offer something of themselves, a personal story, spoken aloud into the receiver. Somewhere else in the room, perhaps at a different time, a stranger becomes the unexpected keeper of that vulnerability. Rooted in the artist’s childhood shaped by goodbyes — between countries, between parents, between languages — this installation asks what it means to be witnessed by someone you may never know, and to carry the weight of a voice that trusted the silence enough to speak. 

Artist Statement

Bethany “B” Wu is an artist and researcher who creates objects and experiences that embody the ephemerality of space, time, light, and now, sound. Examining loss by giving physicality to the transitions that we so often move through without pausing to feel. My practice is rooted in techniques and media that encourages slowness, interweaving natural materials like fiber, wood, and pigment with digital technologies like audio, light, and photography. To interact with my work is attempting to reclaim a sense of agency and reflect on what it could mean to experience loss. 

Artist Bio 

Bethany “B” Wu is a mixed media artist creating objects and experiences that give physical form to the ephemeral — space, time, light, and loss. Weaving traditional handmaking techniques with digital technologies, her work invites slowness and reflection in a fast-moving world. Her work has been exhibited at NYC Resistor, Culture Hub, All Street Gallery, and Clive Davis Gallery, with additional production credits as a Scenic & Properties Designer with San Francisco Playhouse, WP Theatre, and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Bethany holds a B.S. in Interior Design with a minor in Technical Theatre from San Francisco State University, and an MPS from NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she was appointed a Graduate Researcher position to study the impacts of quality lighting on human wellbeing.