net art, video, performance

Annie Abrahams

If you not me

Performance
La Chartreuse
Villeneuve lez Avignon

Réservation +33-(0)490257621Bertall_-_Le_whist_3

Dans la bugade, là où ils enfermaient auparavant les moines fous,
Annie Abrahams jouera aux cartes avec ses onze invités.

26 juillet à 14 h
27
juillet à 11 h
28
juillet à 11 h
durée 30 à 40 mn
jauge 11 personnes
Réservation +33-(0)490257621

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“A rose is a rose is a rose. Folie: Etat d’absence des normes régi par des règles ? Le seul lien entre un hôpital psychiatrique et la famille est un jeu de cartes. Holy holy madness, what would I be without you? NON, non, non, non, non, non, non, no, no madness doesn’t exist, la folie n’existe pas, non, non, NON. La folie n’existe que dans une société et par rapport à elle : c’est un fait de civilisation. Raison et folie s’excluent radicalement. Et le choix de la raison, qui écarte la déraison, s’opère sur fond de moralité : en un sens le rejet du malin génie c’est le rejet même d’une volonté perverse, d’une sorte de volonté folle. Quelle curieuse confusion, celle du vide avec le manque. Il est aussi déréglé que le vent et très secret sur ce qu’il fait la nuit… Tout ce potentiel de dérangement me perturbe. ‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat. ‘We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’ ‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,” said the Cat. ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’ Sur le réseau l’imaginaire et les fantasmes peuvent être acté et du coup ils n’en sont plus, ils font partie de mon actuel. Je suis mes fantasmes.”

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chez moi

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The Big Kiss in Ljubljana

The Big Kiss (20 & 21 June 2009)
Live Internet Broadcast Performance by Annie Abrahams (Ljubljana)

The Big Kiss in Ljubljana

“Machine mediated kissing in a performance = drawing with your tongue = taking pleasure, while constructing an image = a way to be superaware of the other = never totally abandoning yourself = ???????? = not at all like real kissing, it is better! This might be a female point of view.”
Annie Abrahams

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I cannot accept you love me



Antoine Moreau
[Ameme8 - Duplex Copyleft Design]

Mise en vue : du 6 juin au 31 juillet 2009
Galerie Duplex, 27 rue des Paradoux,
31000 Toulouse – 06.20.03.55.69

Avec @lsemo, Annie Abrahams, Sandrine Aourat, Julie Belhomme, Louis Belhomme, Luc Belhomme, Olivier Belhomme, Pierre-Olivier Belhomme, Marie-Pierre Biau, Shaskia Breskeya, Sandrine Cabos, Françoise Van Dermeulen, Élodie Dupont, Myriam Diop My, Hermeto Guzman y Epo, Nicolas Frespech, Niki Frespech, Yoko Hata, Ed Huo, Sébastien Le Roi, Maryvonne Lexington, Carolina Lolas, Laurent Lombardo, Valery Lorenzo, Lydie Lutran, Hoone Garwa, Lina Mc Grea, Carole Honnart, Julie Morel, Melenaite Noata, Carole Nosella, Kumari Palmaner, André Pin, Joanie Rancier, Olivier Rousseau, Émile Sacré, John Smithson Smith, Rodlphe Sueur, Ibxb Ungn, Iva Via, Jan de Weille.

Prix de vente des dessins copyleft (copies conformes) : 150 €

Avec dédicace gratuite de mes dessins : annie abrahams 1, annie abrahams 2
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The wandering ant II. Relations and positions in a connected world.

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Annie Abrahams, Ajaykumar and RuthCatlow:
Relations and Positions in a Connected World

Part of Thursday Club Summer Season 2009
Thursday Club Event,
Goldsmiths Digital Studios,
London.

Annie Abrahams : The wandering ant II.
Relations and positions in a connected world.
Ajaykumar : iPak
Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield : Chair
Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building
Cost: Free of charge, all welcome. No Booking Required
Time: 11 June 2009, 18:00 - 20:00

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Maddness / Folie

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parano|psych|nevro|pervers|folie|fou|folle|crazy|nuts|idiot|sot|mad
schizo|mental|insane|dément|aliéné|dérangé|virtuel|virtual
|gaga etc.

What is madness? C’est quoi la folie? What does it mean to be crazy, to be insane? Est-ce qu’il y a des fous dans le virtuel? Does madness exist in the virtual world?

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Video “A fragmented relation” on-line

Original French title :  Relation entrecoupée 2009, 15 min.  Subtitles in English.  Information en français

Images and sound: Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech.
Editing : Annie Abrahams, residency Artelinea – Art Contemporain, Congénies.

Two images, two voices answer oneanother, search for the other, get lost.
During machine mediated communication, is the other most present when nothing happens, when at least I think of him, her, this other?
A webcam mediated conversation treated to reveal the significance of  void in  regular human intercourse.

This video is a special version for the internet, an adaption of the two channel installation version showed for the first time at PPCM in Nîmes from 6 to 15 Mars 2009. This installation was also presented  the 10th of Mars 2009 at ERBA, Valence during a workshop with the students.

Sources images and sound : A webcam presentation 6 Mars 2008 by Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech concerning the video “One a puppet of the other” in the Contemporary Art Centre, CAC, Le Quartier in Quimper, France.

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WJ-SPOTS#1

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WJ-SPOTS#1
27 & 28 mai 2009 / noon to midnight
Maison des Métallos, Paris-

Festival Les Immatérielles / Futur en Seine

« 15 years of artistic creation on the internet »
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Video Chênes Verts online


Les chênes verts / The green oaks” or “jouer aux cartes / playing cards

duration : 5 min
year : 2006
author : Annie Abrahams.
Voice Patricya Rydzok (French subtitles in English)
Actors : Annie Abrahams and her mother and 4 sisters.

Synopsis :
“Les chênes verts / The green oaks” Subtitle “jouer aux cartes / playing cards”

The common divider of a stay in a psychiatric hospital and a family is a card game.
This video shows us six women playing card in a garden. The speed of the video is slowed down in order to absorb the viewer into the movements of and the relation between these women.
A voice-off relates a story, that seems incomprehensible, makes you feel uneasy and wondering about its relation to the women.

(The text was written about a year after a 7 weeks stay in a psychiatric hospital. It relates how it feels to be inside this place. “there where there are only rules and no norms, there where I was happy, while …… It describes the other people and the relations of the first person with these people. The hospitalisation was the result of TMS difficulties related to excessive and misplaced computer usage)

- First screening:
Puisque ma voix : Intimate sketches film, sound poetry, video and internet December 2005, Monoquini, Montpellier, France. Organisation Panoplie.org

Other screenings :
- 12th International Pärnu Fideo and Vilm Festival : “Pain in the Class” November 18-19, 2006, Pärnu Mud Baths ,Ranna 1, Pärnu, Estonie.
- In the show “Tout va bien“, galerie ESCA, Milhaud, 23-11 au 16-12 2007
- Festival des arts visuels et nouveaux médias, April 21 – April 26 2008, Colloque International : April 24 – April 25 2008, Mohammed VI Theater, Institut français, Insitut Cervantes, Casablanca, Maroc. Commissaire Elisabeth Klimoff.
- In the exhibition Dominique Figarella, Jean Denant et des artistes de http://artistesLR.fr, 18 janvier au 29 mars 2009, le Musée de Sérignan, 34410 Sérignan, France.

Text in French by Xavier Leton in la revue des ressources. 2 11 2007

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removal – double bind


I already watched Nicolas Robin’s video removal several times since he made a .mov version available on they became what they beheld. Now you can also watch a fullscreen version on vimeo. It’s simply  beautifull.

Removal – deletion, suppression, cleaning, disappearance, withdrawal, ablation, expulsion, transfer, liquidation, remotion, clearance, elimination, eradication, purge, riddance, dismissal – The deconstruction of space in response to the release of voice

Start : I don’t know if you are with me, if you hear me, if ……………..hello can you hear me?……………….End : Mrs Robinson, do you hear me? Can you hear me? Are you reading my lips? Can you hear me? What are you doing? Why are you looking out of the window? I am trying to talk to you. I need you to hear me. And that was it. She just turns her head and starts looking out of the window, and that’s the end of my story, there is nothing else left. That is it. End of  story.

Removal is the video version of  Nicolas’ participation in the  Double Bind webperformance series of 2008 – 2009.
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As a biologist I learned Double Bind to be a situation with no exit, whatever one chooses one looses, and this leads to illogical, inhibited, ambivalent and misplaced behaviour. Double Bind is the result of conflicting cues about a particular situation. An animal that cannot decide between attack and flight is going to eat or scratch.
Does double bind describe our actual relation to technology?

I asked 6 artists to reflect on this and to propose a performance in the double webcam performance series on panoplie.org.

Surveiller Punir "Double Contraintes Foucault"Surveiller Punir “Double Contraintes Foucault” Pascal Lièvre reads a page of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish / Surveiller Punir, while attached to his friend Mathieu, who reads the same page. Their “échec” to read together in the same pace shows us the limitations of the machine power?

Bras de tête et Tête de fer K.Kliniques, Justine Abittan et Caroline Delieutraz. They sing, cry, whisper their disconcerting foolishness while they try to be in one and the same space where there is not enough room for two, ignoring the empty space just besides.

julien plus agnèsPuzzled Julien Lassort, assisted by Agnès de Cayeux, shows a clown, a Pierrot, sensible, twofold, man and woman: robotised. Pierrots are generally know for their sadness and trusting naïveté, their oblivion to reality and their distant and moonstruck character.

renee turnerPostcards from her desktop Renee Turner cites Derrida : “I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply.“  Two simultaneous streams, a  RSS and  a mix of real-time transcription and pre-written material defied the transparent one to one relation between experience and language.

jean françois blanquetAuto/Hetero Jean-François Blanquet presents  two  heteronymes: jeanfrançois blanquet using his computer to find a job and  TITsANUS using his for fun. In the end the alternating presence of both of them seems to drive their author and the machines crazy.

The  Double Bind webperformance series of 2008 – 2009  was a follow-up of the Breaking Solitude series of 2007 – 2008 .

ps I am reading Double Bond the biography of Primo Levi by Carole Angier. “Something one cannot understand constitutes a painful void, a sting, a permanent stimulus that insists on being satisfied” Primo Levi, 1960.

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upcoming

21 septembre "If | this => that" Performance, loge du théâtre d'O, Montpellier.

25 septembre Huis Clos / No Exit - tit for tat performance, Nuit des Chercheurs, Théâtre dO, Montpellier.

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