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Annie Abrahams

Mission FCTA – Trust in the Technics of Others

FCTA4webbisAs astronauts, while they guide the space station which carries them, must trust this station a 100%, Annie Abrahams will have to trust her vessel of flesh and blood, will have to trust the bodies on which she lies and to which she must surrender.

Mission FCTA
Faire Confiance à la Technique des Autres
(Trust in the Technics of Others)
March 23, 4.30 pm, CNES, Paris during the festival Sidération

Annie Abrahams will be carried by Jean-Luc Soret, Urte Amélie Fink, Emilie Schalck, Karen Guillorel, Vanessa Vallée, Lili Mamath, Aniara Rodado, David Guasgua, Séverine Delbosque, Romaric Tisserand and David Ferrag. They will try to make her journey comfortable, they will help her to sustain streaming contact and to cope with casualities. They will together manage a body in suspension. The carriers (professional dancers, a curator, an author, an artist) are all volunteering for this task. They don’t know each other and had only two hours of preparation. So the event will be as much a performance as an exercise in auto-organisation. Trust will be crucial.

Remote interventions by Igor Stromajer, Nicolas Frespech and Laurie Bellanca
Streaming mosaika.tv

CNES
Centre national d’études spatiales
2 place Maurice Quentin
75039 PARIS CEDEX 01
FRANCE
Tél : 33 (0)1 44 76 75 00

planetStill of the video used in the performance on vimeo. (6 min)

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Mission FCTA – Faire Confiance à la Technique des Autres

Mission FCTAComme les spationautes sont portés par leur station, doivent “lui” faire confiance à 100 % pendant qu’ils le guident par ses instruments de bord, Annie Abrahams va devoir faire confiance à son vaisseau de chair, aux corps sur lesquelles elle repose et à qui elle va devoir se rendre.

Pour sa Mission FCTA
Faire Confiance à la Technique des Autres
le 23 mars 16h30 au CNES à Paris pendant le festival Sidération

complet Annie Abrahams aura besoin d’une dizaine de volontaires : des personnes amateurs ou professionnels de performance, de théâtre, de danse ou de cinéma. Toute personne ayant envie de relever un défi sera la bienvenue. Une rencontre de préparation est prévue le 19 mars 18h au CNES complet

Jean-Luc Soret, Urte Amélie Fink, Emilie Schalck, Karen Guillorel, Vanessa Vallée, Lili Mamath, Aniara Rodado, David Guasgua, Séverine Delbosque, Romaric Tisserand et David Ferrag ont envie de participer à ce projet, d’aider à me porter, de m’aider a garder le contact du streaming, à faire face aux éventualités du parcours, à gérer un corps en suspension. Les porteurs ( danseureuses pro, un curateur, curatrice, auteur, artiste plasticienne) sont tous volontaires. Ils ne se connaissent pas et n’ont eu que deux heures de préparation. Cet évènement sera donc autant une exercise en auto-organisation qu’une performance.

Avec interventions à distance de Igor Stromajer, Nicolas Frespech et Laurie Bellanca
Streaming mosaika.tv

CNES
Centre national d’études spatiales
2 place Maurice Quentin
75039 PARIS CEDEX 01
FRANCE
Tél : 33 (0)1 44 76 75 00

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FCTAPrepa
Images testing streaming vidéo (6 min)

Plus d’information protocole, image, motivation

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Huis Clos / No Exit – Remediating the Social

Three public preparation sessions / Three performances

Remediating the Social – ELMCIP conference
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with New Media Scotland and University College Falmouth

With Annie Abrahams, Ruth Catlow, Ursula EndlicherNicolas Frespech and Igor Stromajer.

The project is a follow-up of Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation presented on 29/05/2010 at NIMk in Amsterdam.

This time the preparations for the performances are public.
Via huisclos.mosaika.tv you can see us. You can comment, do suggestions, give ideas in a separate chatwindow.

Preparation as Performance
Preparation 1  :  25 October 6pm GMT
Preparation 2  :  2 November 2pm GMT (find you local time)
Preparation 3  :  3 November 2pm GMT (find you local time)

Performances :
1 November 8pm GMT
A networked performance Exposition on the New Aesthetic
Edinburgh College of Art

free entrance without reservation
Online huisclos.mosaika.tv>(find you local time)

2 and 3 November 3.30pm GMT
Edinburgh College of Art

streaming interface Ivan Chabanaud mosaika.tv
technical assistance Jan de Weille

Will we choose to use more or even less rules? Will we need a leader or continue without one? Maybe Ruth will become a leader naturally because she is only one authorized to use English, the language understood by all. What can we share? How can we position ourselves? What kind of voice will be possible?

More information including an image and a .pdf of the first preparation session : bram.org/huisclos/beyond
Information en français.

25/10/2012 5pm, email to performers :

Remember
Never panic. Nothing can go wrong.
Even if all but you disappear the performance goes on, the others will come back.
Networks are fragile.

What will we do :
Work together to get an idea for the performance of next Thursday (when we will only speak our mother tongues)
Decide together what we will do next Thursday, when there is an official ELMCIP performance announced and to be executed in front of the conference public.
Today we are allowed to speak English.

5 min VideoCollage of the final 3 performances (70 min)
I – Exposition on the New Aesthetic.
II – Newer Aesthetic.
III – The internet is not as good as it was yesterday.

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BEYOND (spectacle) – Episode I


Une ailleurs, une autre ici. Ces deux personnes sont connectées via une interface utilisant une webcam. Elles retranscrivent physiquement et en mouvement, comme des marionnettes, le texte écrit dans deux fenêtres (tchat en direct). Deux personnes liront ce texte en direct et à haute voix pendant que les deux performers exécuteront – le mieux qu’ils le peuvent- le protocole et les actions.

Beyond (spectacle) Episode I
Performance Annie Abrahams & Igor Stromajer,

SHOW OFF ART FAIR
Programmation Performances / Curator Madeleine Filippi
Vendredi 19 Octobre 2012 – 19h30
Room 7.2. 7 rue des filles du calvaire 75003 Paris

Streaming Ivan Chabanaud Mosaika.tv
Technical assistance Jan de Weille, Pierre-Henri Petillault
Reader for Annie : Marie Lavoquet
Reader for Igor : Thomas Roussel

Igor in Hamburg and Annie in Paris will be united in a webcam performance interface. Igor and Annie will be the marionettes to be put into (e)motion via the text written by the public on their smartphones. Two speakers will read this text aloud in front of the public while Annie and Igor will execute as good as they can the protocol and commands proposed to them.

Marionettes / Scripting Reality / On Manipulation / Txt Theater / Public Collaboration Dynamics


Photo Madeleine Filippi.

More images on flickr


As much an exercice in collectif writing as a performance.
Command log files: Read the rest of this entry »

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Video Beyond (spectacle) – test


https://vimeo.com/41651563

Performance Arnolfini Bristol – Performance Writing Weekend – ELMCIP Seminar.

Igor Stromajer in Hamburg Annie Abrahams in Bristol united in a webperformance interface are the marionettes put into (e)motion via text written by the public at Arnolfini’s, using their labtops and smartphones. Two speakers are reading this text aloud in front of the public.

Marionettes / Scripting Reality / On Manipulation / Txt Theater / Public Collaboration Dynamics

As much an exercice in collectif writing as a performance.
Texts written by the audience:

Text for Annie :
peak
close your maouth
say hello
smile at us all
touch your chin like you’re thinking profoundly
touch your heart like you mean it
try to intimidate the audience
Please sing:Row, row, row your boat,Gently down the stream.Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,Life is but a dream.
remain imaginative
enough
enough
appreciate our silent applause
LOOK OUT!
Look In!
raise your eyes
Mime sailing
a decadent artist
Mime
sailing
mime drowing silently
turn to the other
look the other way
eat a sandwich
words, words, words
go on
lift that weight

Text for Igor:
d
turn
think about your future
robots should be created free
finish speaking
gesticulate
finish speaking again
use your tongue
put your hat on upside down
Please do a RTD2
pull your eyebrows
describe the room
enough starwars
say a 4 letter word
express a tragedy
exploit the creative opportunities that arise from your wearing a turtle-neck
no light jazz songs
Come back
breath deeply the gathering gloom
look the other way
melt completely
way
electric shock
save some for us
go on

More information aabrahams.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/beyond-spectacle-test/

Beyond (spectacle) Episode I
SHOW OFF ART FAIR
19 October 2012  https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/beyond-spectacle-episode-i/

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Beyond (spectacle) – test

Performance Writing Weekend

Digital text and the Body
Annie Abrahams (NL/Fr) Donna Leishman (UK) cris cheek (UK/US) Joerg Piringer (Austria) J.R.Carpenter (Can/UK)

Arnolfini theatre
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA UK
04/05 2012 6.30 pm
free but ticketed
T: +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01
E: boxoffice@arnolfini.org.uk

Beyond (spectacle) test
Annie Abrahams and Igor Stromajer
Interface Estelle Senay – x-réseau, Théâtre Paris Villette

web performance interface actor side with Annie and IgorPlease click on the image to have a better view of the interface.

Igor in Hamburg and Annie in Bristol will be united in a webcam performance interface. Igor and Annie will be the marionettes to be put into (e)motion via the text written in two chat windows. Two speakers will read this text aloud in front of the public while Annie and Igor will execute as good as they can the protocol and commands proposed to them, they won’t kiss.

Marionettes / Scripting Reality / On Manipulation / Txt Theater / Public Collaboration Dynamics

Event related to E-literature in/with Performance, an Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity in Practice (ELMCIP) Seminar  hosted by the University College Falmouth.

To see a video capture go http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/video-beyond-spectacle-test/

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2-3-1 Assimil – performance on/offline

Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation (Winner)

in the On/Offline competition of the Stuttgarter Film Winter

http://www.wand5.de/wand5cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=327

Presentation of

Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation

Saturday 22 01 2011 at 5PM by Annie Abrahams
Filmhaus
4th floor
Friedrichstrasse 23a
70174 Stuttgart

2-3-1 Assimil Performance with Igor Stromajer and Nicolas Frespech

Saturday 22 01 2011 at 5.30PM

Visible (5min) from the Huis Clos / No Exit Salon

Video, jury statement and screenprints

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Preparation Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation

Collective test Tuesday 25 05 6PM online in the Bram.org Salon

preparation Annie Abrahams and Igor Stromajer 25 05

preparation Annie Abrahams and Ursula Endlicher 24 05

Preparation Annie Abrahams and Paolo Cioro 24 05

Testing Annie Abrahams and Ruth Catlow

Nicolas Frespech testing

Vidéo on dailymotion by Nicolas Frespech on his preparation of the performance
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdf70i_repetition-de-la-performance_creation

All images are from private tests, using Manycam among others.

More information on the performance http://bram.org/huisclos/ontranslation

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Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation

Telematic performance with 6 performers
May 29th 2010 8.30 pm

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam

Part of the Performmikka Internettikka event curated by Petra Heck
(Performmikka Internettikka link naar Nederlandse tekst)

6 Netartists will challenge one another into collective actions.
What will happen when they will only use their mother tongue and code to communicate?

Annie Abrahams – www.bram.org in Amsterdam (NIMk) will only speak Dutch
Ruth Catlow – www.furtherfield.org in London will only speak English
Paolo Cirio – www.paolocirio.net in London will only speak Italian
Ursula Endlicher – www.ursenal.net in New York will only speak German
Nicolas Frespech – www.frespech.com in Montélimar will only speak French
Igor Stromajer – www.intima.org in Hamburg will only speak Slovenian

Internet streaming in the bram.org salon
Process Guardian : Estelle Senay

Any malfunctioning will be part of the game and must be assumed, never panic.
Nothing can go wrong, all is permitted, we can play but we don’t have to – silence is beautiful.

More information

Français
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Verbindingen/Jonctions 12, Brussels

Verbindingen/Jonctions 12
(12de  editie van een tweejaarlijks festival)

We Bedoelen Met Data
Brussel, Belgie, 21-29 november 2009

# Presentatie in de ReferentieRuimte :
Oppera Internettikka – Protection et Sécurité van Annie Abrahams & Igor Stromajer
(Montpellier, Frankrijk, 2006)


V/J12 is een project van Constant, Vereniging voor Kunst en Media.

Drie rode draden weven zich door de 12de editie van het Verbindingen/Jonctions festival.
De eerste, In de schaduw van de grijze literatuur neemt ons mee op een speelse, kritische ontdekkingstocht langs documenten, teksten, commentaren die de elektronische communicatie van op de achtergrond organiseren. De continuïteit van de informatie-flow wordt verzekerd door een massa anonieme documenten (licenties, specificaties, voorwaarden, richtlijnen, standaarden etc.). Alom aanwezige grijze literatuur licht op vanuit de marges en regelt de relatie tussen mens en machine. Ook de relatie die mensen via netwerken onderhouden, wordt door deze literatuur gekaderd, maar wie heeft het recht haar te lezen, te schrijven of uit te voeren ?

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* 05/06 - 07/06 résidence ZINC Marseille pour ReadingClub (avec Emmanuel Guez)
* 07/06 participation dans CCC Copie Copains Club
* April 2014 Residency Ljubljana (Centre Cankarjeva and Cona Zavod - Date With An Artist project)

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