May 27, 2009 • 11:32 am Comments Off
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?
Filed under: Collective writing, Net art
May 25, 2009 • 10:04 pm Comments Off
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.
Filed under: Video , Artelinea, Nicolas Frespech, Relation entrecoupée
May 20, 2009 • 4:21 pm Comments Off
“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
Filed under: Video , Elisabeth Klimoff, la revue des ressources, Les chênes verts, Mohammed VI Theater Casablanca, Monoquini, Musée de Sérignan, Patricya Rydzok, Pärnu Fideo and Vilm Festival, Puisque ma voix, The green oaks, Xavier Leton
May 13, 2009 • 5:29 pm Comments Off
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.
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” 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.
Puzzled 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.
Postcards 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.
Auto/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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Context
“Between November 2006 and February 2008 I organized with panoplie.org two seasons of rendezvous on the web called “Breaking Solitude“, “different ways of being together”. 14 Artists accepted to do a performance in the experimental situation created in the virtual salon of panoplie.
Some features, such as time limits (between 5 and 20 minutes) and a refusal to pod cast the performances related these events to traditional contemporary art performances. Others like the participation of the public using a chat window made them to a new experience for both the artist and the public.
The performing artist was confronted to the brute and often emotional reactions of his public, which were not always as respectful as in art centres, museums and galleries.
The participating audience had the privilege to assist in a performance, to see and hear a person during an act of creation without having to subject to the social rites of the art world. The only thing that remains from the performance is its immediate feedback, the text written by the audience.
In this new season Breaking Solitude becomes Double Bind.
Is our relation to the computer and internet double bind, bound, bond?
I am your friend but you will never know me?
Remote presence, ubiquity, multiple personality, absence of the body? Does this make us schizophrenic? How do we adapt?”
Annie Abrahams September 2008.
Filed under: Curation, Of interest, Performance , Agnès de Cayeux, Double Bind, Jean-François Blanquet, Julien Lassort, K.Kliniques, Nicolas Robin, panoplie.org, Pascal Lièvre, Primo Levi, Renee Turner, webperformance
May 12, 2009 • 6:53 pm Comments Off
Annie vacuum cleaning with Olia playing the accordeon.
http://www.bram.org/ext/habiter/index.htm
Sound Jan de Weille.
Filed under: Net art, Of interest , domestic details
• 10:38 am Comments Off
Resurrection Karaoke for the Humiliated
or
Test to predict potential aggressive behavior
by Annie Abrahams
presented in
BREAKING THE SPACE
Cyberfeminist Activist Net Art
Curated by Evelin Stermitz
Part of the exhibition
Speculum Artium 09
In collaboration with the Department of Video and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The exhibition takes place from May 12 – 15 2009, at Delavski Dom Trbovlje, Trbovlje, Slovenia.
Filed under: Exhibition , Breaking The Space, Evelin Stermitz, Resurrection Karaoke
