You have until Monday to vent your spleen or display your expletive skills for posterity.



So far, more than 500 callers have dialed “Swearline” to record their diatribes in answer to a year-long appeal by Lucky Pierre, a five-artist Chicago collective.



A selection of the recordings will end up on compact discs and put in a jukebox, possibly to be displayed in a willing art gallery or museum. Some examples, most laden with repeated variations on the f-word, are viewable on the group’s Web site, http://www.luckypierre.org.

“A lot of people who call will put curses to a tune. One guy had composed a little song and played the piano while talking into the phone,” Lucky Pierre member Bill Talsma said.



The calls, most less than the maximum three minutes long, vary widely, Talsma said. “From single words to long drawn-out diatribes, people voicing their opinions about sex and love and politics and work and all that stuff.”



The group takes some of its inspiration from the 1960s-era Fluxus movement, which challenged artists to respond to everyday life and to depict artistic activity “between the media.”



The Lucky Pierre artists, who hold day jobs ranging from college music professor to marketer of promotional products, have previously held 12-hour performances of volunteers reciting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Evangeline” against a backdrop of a continuous running of the films “Easy Rider” and “Woodstock.”



Its current project: videotaping people eating recreations of the last meals of Texas death row inmates culled from the Texas prison Web site.
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