A group of Swiss artists has come up with a novel way to try to communicate with Julian Assange, currently being given asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy: they have sent him a package.

Bitnik, an artist collective based in Zurich, Switzerland, said that its parcel contains “a cell phone, camera and battery pack. Through [the] hole in the packet the camera takes pictures of the packet's surroundings and uploads them to our website.”

The group has been live-tweeting the progress of the package since it was sent Wednesday by postal mail from another London location to the WikiLeaks founder. So far, the group knows that the package has arrived inside the embassy, but it has not been opened yet—WikiLeaks has confirmed it by Twitter as well.

Domajgoj Smoljo, a Swiss media artist who is part of the group, told Ars via Skype from London that the group sees the project as a “radical real-time” piece of performance art. “We see the camera as something which produces a performance stage, where [Assange] can interact with the public,” he said. “We think Assange knows how to deal with this situation. We are happy if he just holds it outside of his room and pretends it’s normal.”

He said the group was inspired by other 4chan/Anonymous-style gags, which involved sending pizzas and taxis to the Ecuadorian Embassy on the day that Assange received asylum.

“So we have this diplomatic crisis, with the UK government trying to arrest him as soon as he leaves,” Smoljo said. “We wanted to discuss this in an artistic way and feature this discussion inside, with our artistic impression. We’re not activists, we don’t have to claim a political position. We are artists. But, we can go inside and try to create a situation where things are possible.”

For now, the package appears to be “on a sofa,” but the group warns that the battery will run out in six hours—in which case, they say they will send another package, complete with camera, phone, and battery.

UPDATE (12:38pm CT): Assange seems to have received the package, and is toying with the audience with messages like this:

UPDATE (1:00pm CT): It worked!