soirée ART VIDEO à o25rjj

26 01 19h Soirée ART VIDEO
Espace o25rjj à Loupian

Extrait Angry Women take 5  et The green oaks / Les chênes verts seront présentées.

Les chênes verts  Le diviseur commun d’un séjour à l’hôpital psychiatrique et la famille est un jeu de cartes. “Là où il n’y a pas de normes que des règles, j’étais très heureuse en jouant aux cartes”
Duration : 5 min Year : 2006
The green oaks The common divider of a stay in a psychiatric hospital and a family is a card game. “There where there are no norms, only rules, I was happy playing cards”

Filed under: Video, angry women, chênes verts, o25rjj, The green oaks

ANGRY 1 & 2

12 12 2012 19h, 24h – Paris time – find your local time
Online in the multi-platform programme of the UpStage Festival of Cyberformance.
Two performances for Testing – 1 2, 1 2, 1 2
IRL 18h30 à Kawenga territoires numériques, Montpellier

Annie Abrahams with/avec Derek Piotr, Ursula Endlicher, Bérénice Belpaire, Laurie Bellanca, Gretta Louw, Antye Greie, Martina Ruhsam, Sébastien Zaegel, Christophe Alix, Simona Polvani, Pascale Barret, Julie Châteauvert, Ienke Kastelein, Suzon Fuks, Gaetan Rusquet and Igor Stromajer.

Streaming interface: Ivan Chabanaud mosaika.tv – Kawenga scène(s) numérique(s)
Technical assistence: Jan de Weille

ENG
ANGRY will be the 7th and 8th performances in the frame of Angry Women: an artistic research project on remote communication and collaboration using anger as a pretext. You can also say that it is an artistic research project on female anger using webcam performances as a facilitator.

So far six experiments have been done. Five different approaches with only women and one with only men. Testing 12,12,12 will be the occasion to continue this series and to experiment with a mixed male / female version for the first time.

Information, images, vid(eé)os, text(e)s: http://www.bram.org/angry/women/

FR
ANGRY est le septième volet du projet Angry Women, un projet de recherche artistique concernant la communication et la collaboration à distance en utilisant la colère comme prétexte. On pourrait également dire que c’est un projet de recherche artistique autour de la colère féminine qui utilise des performances en ligne comme méthode.

Jusqu’à maintenant, six expérimentations avec des approches différentes ont eu lieu. Cinq performances avec ne que des femmes et une avec seulement des hommes. Testing 12,12,12 est l’occasion de faire une performance mixte pour la première fois.

Performance protocol en français .pdf
Performance protocole in English .pdf 

9 Screengrabs ANGRY 1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bramorg/sets/72157632235502051/ …
10 Screengrabs ANGRY 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bramorg/sets/72157632235572337/ …

“La colère, si elle est prétexte au départ, ne s’est pas sentie, directement, mais plutôt qu’une réaction primaire elle semble plutôt donner naissance à une expression profondément singulière, peut être une manière de “déjouer” l’adversaire en lui proposant une forme non pas qui l’écrase ou le domine, mais qui pourrait peut être, un court moment lui faire perdre les pédales, ou les manettes: “I don’t want to be manipulated“. A l’heure ou n’importe quelle information s’échange, se télécharge, se pirate, se récupère, se contrôle, où on pourrait remplacer le mot “information” par le mot “vie”, ta proposition condense un temps absolument autre et absolument vrai à la fois, qui, si on reparle de l’adversaire, pourrait bien lui échapper…enfin!” Réaction par mail de Jean-Marc Demay .pdf

ANGRY 1 projection at Kawenga territoires numériques

Filed under: Performance, angry men, angry women, Jean-Marc Demay, Kawenga, mosaika.tv, Testing – 1 2 1 2 1 2, UpStage Festival

an alternative documenta

Angry Women take 3
presented in

an alternative documenta (…what a 21st century documenta could look like )

“… it may also be correct to assume from this list that documenta 13 also looks backward to the 20th century, presenting a ‘postmodern’ view of things.

i propose in this blog to present a set of artists and projects that look forward, into the 21st century… “

by Christian Lutz

Filed under: Exhibition, an alternative documenta, angry women, Christian Lutz, documenta 13

IRL SPAMM Waiting

Waiting (before Angry Women take 2) presented in exposition SPAMM, Galleries Brussels, festival Transcultures. (03/05/2012 – 20/05/2012)

Exposition + événements du 03 au 20 mai (Vernissage le 2 mai à 19H). Ouvert de 12h00 à 18h00, fermé le lundi. Entrée: 5 euros.

IRL SPAMM @ GALERIES / TRANSNUMERIQUES #4 / BRUSSELS

Filed under: Exhibition, Net art, angry women, SPAMM

Angry Women take 5

21 04 2012 19h30
l’ancienne laiterie Les Bouillants, à Vern-sur-Seiche
Angry Women Take 5
vernissage /  opening event of Frontières

With / Avec : Annie Abrahams, Bérénice Belpaire, Ienke Kastelein, Inès Kchaou, Julie Châteauvert, KRN, Laurie Bellanca, Pascale Barret, Paula Roush and Simona Polvani.

12 Minutes long 9 women in front of  their webcams, connected via a common interface to internet, will express their anger, their irritations. In contrast with the four previous performances in the Angry Women series, this time, the women will be able to act on their presence in the interface – this way they will try to get as close as possible to their anger.

Pendant 12 minutes 9 femmes devant leurs webcams, connectées via internet à une interface commune vont exprimer leur colère, leurs énervements. A l’encontre des 4 performances antérieures les femmes vont cette fois-ci pouvoir agir sur leur présence dans l’interface – elles vont ainsi essayer d’être au plus près de leurs colères.

Extrait 2.30 min. on https://vimeo.com/40947840

Filed under: Performance, angry women, Bérénice Belpaire, Bouillants, Frontières, Ienke Kastelein, Inès Kchaou, Julie Châteauvert, KRN, Laurie Bellanca, Pascale Barret, Simona Polvani, Vern-sur-Seiche

Analyses & reactions Raw Brut Angry Women

- acting versus performing / on gender / conducting and directing / pro and cons of the mirror situation / performance strategies / scripting and improvising / recording or not recording -

Download .pdf (8pages, a mix of French and English) http://bram.org/angry/women/analyses-raw.pdf

Annie Abrahams, Ienke Kastelein, Julie Châteauvert, Martina Ruhsam, Helen Varley Jamieson, Antye Greie, Paula Roush & Lucille Calmel.

“…Quant à la colère, notre contenance m’étonne toujours….Quant au choeur cependant: un million de choses à dire… d’affection, je crois avoir préféré la première version, celle avec trop de gens, celle avec les délais, les décalages, les difficultés d’orientations, les erreurs d’identification de voix, de parole, de direction, celle des échappées, et de l’orchestration fragile, fuyante, précaire… mais qui en arrive tout de même à ce silence final…qui impressionne. Sa durée aussi, qui laisse le temps aux fluctuations des états, le temps de dire ce qu’on sait déjà, le temps d’essayer de l’action, le temps de regarder les autres, le temps de se taire, le temps de tenter de s’arrimer aux autres, le temps de tenter d’influencer les autres, le temps le temps d’oser des paroles nouvelles inconnues de soi même, on ose cachée par le délai, on ose pour voir s’il y aura relais, on ose parce qu’on a le temps de devenir téméraire et de se dire, ah ouais? what if? et que c’est un peu ça aussi l’énergie de la colère: “ah ouais? what if?”

la grande grille, la possibilité de placer des regards, vers les autres et droit devant, vers ces autres qu’on ne voit pas. Le temps aussi de bien vivre le fait qu’on n’est pas ensemble pour vrai, enfin oui, mais non, et de sentir qu’il y a fiction possible… de découvrir qu’on peut faire semblant en se regardant les genoux de regarder sa voisine du dessous. et ça dit que la colère peut être fourbe.
mais ça dit aussi, qu’en colère, dessous, on peut aussi bien rigoler.
et puis ça laisse le temps de s’imaginer, ceux et celles qui verront et de les inclure…”
Extrait d’un émail de Julie Châteauvert 13/01/2012.

“…I enjoyed the multiple frames and all the heterogenous ways of how to deal with this situation. What I like a lot is the contingency that the performance implies and exposes. It is obvious that it is not really clear or determined for us what is going to happen. That makes it very interesting to watch. I love the silent presence of the woman in pink in the middle of the picture in take 1. I also love the big scream that you did together and the fists and the silence afterwards. I realised that understanding the language is somehow important because before we tried I thought that it´s nice that noone is really understandable and that it´s more about creating a kind of sound-carpet. But for me it was quite hard now to watch the take in French in which I almost couldn´t understand anything. So, I realised, that for me (from a spectator´s view) the content of what we are saying is not irrelevant and that understanding some bits and fragments of our talking is important…”
Extract from an email by Martina Ruhsam 14/01/2012.

Angry Women is a performance project about groupdynamics, remote communication and collaboration and female anger. bram.org/angry/women

Filed under: Articles / Texts, angry women

Being Social – Opening exhibition at the new Furtherfield Gallery

‘Angry Women‘ by Annie Abrahams, 2011. (From photograph by Michael Szpakowski)

The exhibition Being Social brings together artworks by emerging and internationally acclaimed artists:
Annie Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_ , Liz Sterry and Thomson and Craighead.

Saturday 25 February – Saturday 28 April 2012 (Closed 6-7 April)

Since the mid-90s computers have changed our way of being together. First the Internet then mobile networks have grown as cultural spaces for interaction – wild and banal, bureaucratic and controlling – producing new ways of ‘being social’. Visitors are invited to view art installations, software art, networked performances and to get involved with creative activities to explore how our lives – personal and political – are being shaped by digital technologies.

Location
Furtherfield Gallery
McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park
London N4 2NQ
T: +44 (0)20 8802 2827
E: info@furtherfield.org

Opening Event: Saturday 25 February 2012, 1-4pm
Press View: Friday 2 March 2012, 10-12 noon
rsvp: info@furtherfield.org

Filed under: Exhibition, angry women, Being Social, Furtherfield

Connection Protocols – Artefact Leuven

Angry Women Take 3 & 4, presented in Connection protocols by Constant as part of the Artefact Festival organised around the theme of The Social Contract in Stuk Leuven (Be) .
14/02 – 23/02 2012

Not only people but also bots, search engines and spiders abide by laws and agreements. Whether we email, surf or chat, rules and regulations have an effect on our daily lives and on the way we  move in public space. Which social behavior do governments, companies and regulators project on machines? What is the social contract written into standards and technological infrastructure?

In Connection Protocols, the Brussels-based arts lab Constant gathers research material on how people, machines and environments connect with each other. This collage  of artworks, notes, manuals, instructions, images and texts can be read as a publication that will be edited ‘live’ during the festival period. With this living collection that moves along the stairs of STUK, Constant tries to  balance ‘soft’ factors such as attraction, affection, similarity and curiosity with the prescriptive and indisputable character of formatting, contracts and ‘terms of use’ documents.

http://www.artefact-festival.be/2012/program/detail/59995/language/en

Filed under: Event, Performance, angry women, Artefact, Connection protocols, Constant, Stuk, The Social Contract

SuPer Art Modern Museum

Annie Abrahams – Waiting – Before Angry Women Take 2 in SPAMM (SuPer Art Modern Museum), musée virtuel dédiées à l’art numérique / virtual museum dedicated to internet art. Curateurs/curators :  Systaime, Silicon maniacs et/and Thomas Cheneseau.

50 ARTISTS / 50 WORKS

Filed under: Net art, angry women, Silicon maniacs, SPAMM, SuPer Art Modern Museum, Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau

Angry Women take 3 & 4

04 12 2011 18:30 Brussels  and online

Capture d’écran de Take 3 en français. vimeo.com/33492100

Screencapture of Take 4 in English. vimeo.com/33498082

Performance: Angry Women take 3 & 4  with Anne Laforet, Annie Abrahams, Antye Greie, Bérénice Belpaire, Hedva Eltanani, Hortense Gauthier, Ienke Kastelein, Jule Chateauvert, Laurence Moletta, Laurie Bellanca, Lucille Calmel, Martina Ruhsam, Olga P Massanet, Pascale Barret and Simona Polvani

Prototypes for · pour · voor transmission

Verbindingen/Jonctions 13
30 November → 4 December 2011

Filed under: Performance, angry women, Anne Laforet, Antye Greie, Bérénice Belpaire, Hedva Eltanani, Hortense Gauthier, Ienke Kastelein, Jule Chateauvert, Laurence Moletta, Laurie Bellanca, Lucille Calmel, Martina Ruhsam, Olga P Massanet, Pascale Barret, Simona Polvani, VJ13