Moonlighting is a multimedia art project which explores tropes of sex and gender through an imaginary phone sex website.

The characters of the Moonlighting girls are plays on the tropes commonly employed on these sites. The project seeks to eschew the male gaze by providing the inverse of a fetish, while also imagining the real lives of the sex workers on the other end - the real people who embody the roles. Thus, the schoolgirl becomes the grad student, and the secretary is not coy and comely, but overworked and underemployed.

The phone number, however, IS COMPLETELY REAL. It leads directly to a voicemail box which instructs callers to divulge a secret or a confession. This is anonymized and provides only transcript of the message. Your identity will never be known, so just like on a real phone sex line you can feel safe saying absolutely anything.

The Moonlighting project is interested in secrecy and the use of avatars to both mask and convey parts of our id with which we may not have reckoned, and may not want to. So it’s possible that the content of your confession may be incorporated into this art project in an as yet undetermined way. But don’t worry, we’ll never know it’s you.