Gelezen Parmi la foule. Episode 7. Godfried 3. van H.F.. van Steensel, I always wanted to sing, but everyone told me not to, anyway, I stopped smoking. en Hello, I am a computer uit mijn boek / van mijn website. Bedankt voor de uitnodiging en de mooie expo Engel! Bedankt Stefan en Marijke voor jullie voor lezingen.
@ Same but Different – Equinox to Equinox, short duration performance festival, March 24, the Hof in Dordrecht. Organisation 222lodge Dordrecht. No fixed programme – everything takes place simultaneously, collaborations can arise spontaneously.
Here with Ienke Kastelein, Topp & Dubio, Yelena Myshko and …
Participants: Marita Bullmann, Fred Vos, August S. Geerlings, Ienke Kastelein, Frans van Lent, Ieke Trinks Van Der Meer Wijnia Visser, Yvo van der Vat, Nico Parl, Yvette Teeuwen, Philemon Mukarno, Annie Abrahams, Yelena Myshko, Sarah Ndele, Topp & Dubio.
Lecture performative et échange autour de mon livre Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology *, le 5 avril à 18h00 , pendant : Les Ecrits du Numérique # 6 REGIMES DE LECTURE 4 & 5 avril 2024, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille.
Coordination : Colette Tron et Cécile Portier (Alphabetville), Pascal Jourdana (Marelle) Rencontres, démos, échanges, lectures, projections. Avec : Catherine Malabou, philosophe ; Peter Szendy, philosophe et musicologue ; Véronique Aubouy, artiste et réalisatrice ; Christophe Bruno, artiste ; Stéphanie Parmentier, enseignante, docteure en lettres modernes ; Pascal Jourdana, éditeur ; Fabien Zocco, artiste ; Juliette Mezenc, autrice ; Anne Savelli, écrivain ; Cécile Portier, écrivain ; Colette Tron, autrice et critique ; Jean-Michel Bruyère, artiste; Annie Abrahams, artiste et performeuse Gratuit sur inscription à alphabetville@orange.fr
* Lire un site web? Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology, le livre est un dérivé du site web Being Human. Ce site web, créé entre 1997 et 2007, est un univers linguistique, où se mêlent différentes voix, langues, poèmes, codes et variables dans un ensemble labyrinthique. Aujourd’hui l’Internet a changé et le site ne peut plus être vécu de la même manière que quand il a été créé. Quand LI-MA Amsterdam demande à Abrahams comment elle voudrait le présenter en 2023 dans l’exposition REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art, au Nieuwe Instituut à Rotterdam, elle décide de le capturer dans un recueil de poésie. Le livre est multilingue, contient 44 poèmes, un Fore Words / Voor Woorden d’Erika Fülöp et Ad Verbs / Bij Woorden de Abrahams elle-même. La conception graphique est d’Alexandre Leray. ISBN : 978909037631, 160 pages, A5, couverture rigide.
short extract from performance with eerieear @worm
On Febr 25, 20h30 in the highly experimental context of electric umbrella # 13 at WORM, Rotterdam, eerieear aka Sebastian Pappalardo and me Annie Abrahams had our first collab; we combined poetry and life coding in a performance on stage.
Here is a link to the whole 30 min long performance including computer- and mic crashes, feedback, noise and dance.
I am not an artwork Self_close Bang You will never be able to understand me Kissing Time Seal it and dump it in a black hole Bang I always wanted to sing … I am (not) an artwork
17/01, 19h30 Reading from my book Being Human . een bloemlezing . an anthology. at Digital Care: Performing the (feminist) internet, LAB 111, LI-MA, Amsterdam. With assistance from Elise Groenewoud and H.F. van Steensel. Photos: Pieter Kers | Beeld.nu.
the quietest, the least, the narrowest, the slowest, the lightest, the shortest, the thinnest and the smallest – work, barely perceptible by eye, by ear, by mind yet unmistakably present. https://thesmallest.222lodge.nl/
Design by Nicole Martens. Featuring Joana Chicau (photo by John Rohrer) and Janilda Bartolomeu.
Digital Care: Performing the (Feminist) Internet A dialogue between early net art and contemporary practices Wednesday, 17 January, 2024 LI-MA, LAB111 (LAB1), Arie Biemondstraat 111, 1054 PD Amsterdam Doors 19.15 // Program begins 19.30 Entry: €7.50 (regular) / €5,- (student)
The evening centers around a dialogue between early net art and contemporary practices, with Annie Abrahams, Debra Solomon, Janilda Bartolomeu and Joana Chicau.
What does it mean to be human in a technological society? And how does our communication change depending on the digital infrastructure we use to talk to each other?
Together with Debra Solomon, Annie Abrahams, Joana Chicau and Janilda Bartolomeu, we will explore the technological landscape of the past, and the questions raised back then. We also look ahead to explore how those works are experienced several decades later, and how artists of today keep on working in this lineage. How do we communicate, dance, live and die online?
I will read from my book Being Human . an anthology, now also available online through NAi booksellers. The book will stay on display in the exhibition REBOOT at the New Institute in Rotterdam until May 12.
On Dec.15 2023 we enjoyed our yearly reconnection – eyes closed no talking – of Distant Feelings. Daniel Pinheiro wrote a nice text on this event that was open to all:
Can we allow ourselves to dream, collectively, of other possibilities?
Once again, we prepared to gather in the space that’s become the norm for productivity in recent years. Not that it wasn’t like that before, but now we’re finding ourselves called to meetings that could’ve been just an email. We receive emails that could have been just a text message. We receive texts that could have just been a quick phone call – so that we could hear the person on the other side. This last one is a bit tricky because I, myself, don’t like to speak on the phone. I would rather write a message and let it linger there, wait for an answer – if only ‘wait’ existed then it would probably be worth it. ‘Wait’ does not exist any more; It’s an almost obsolete concept in a world where everything seems to unfold simultaneously. We hit send with the anxiety produced by the anticipation of a haptic response. Technology continues to adapt to the productivity-driven and capitalist existence we’re trapped in.
In Distant Feeling(s) we continue to navigate this ever-changing technological terrain, utilizing the tool of Zoom which has become meticulously updated to minimize distractions (see video essay). DF persists as an annual practice, opening a situation where everything slows down. Alongside others we share a prelude where our eyes meet collectively before diving into 15 minutes of the precious productivity time and simply be, devoid of words or actions – only feeling whatever resonates most profoundly (as evident in the comments from participants). Within the network we embrace a certain quiet emptiness. A suspended moment where participating individuals find themselves alone with their devices, surrounded by faint interferences that traverse distances, ultimately (hopefully) forming an electronic embrace promised by technology long ago. (D.P.)
You can find a description of the whole project, started by Daniel, Lisa Parra and me in 2016, comments of some participants, more videos and its history here: https://daniel-pinheiro.tumblr.com/distantfeelings
individual sound recordings – silences edited out: 4 different durations, 4 different patterns, 4 different styles, 4 different microphones, 1 processing algorithm
we are rebels escaping capture … are we?
The Zoom Ai compagnon in their recap of our last session Tone Again mentions a series of unclear statements, interjections, and exclamations. To read the whole report as a pdf visit Tone Again.
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Colliding Interferences The strange power.s of the bodies in space.
Utterings performed on the 29th of June at 5PM during the symposium Cyberperformance: Artistic and Pedagogical Practices, Gambelas Campus, University of Algarve, Faro. Duration 45 min. Constança, Nerina and Curt online, Daniel and Annie in Faro.
This Autumn I received three artists in the context of Borrowed Spaces, a project by the artist Ronald de Ceuster. Danielle Brans, H.F. van Steensel and Ronald Nijhof each stayed five days in Godfried, my future studio in Vollenhove. I wrote a short text in Dutch to conclude. Translation in English at the end in this post.
ook dit ging weer voorbij de taal is ook wat wat zeker wat zeker dat wat , ja wat onwennig onwennig benaderen ritme in beweging wat het kijken verwatert tot ja wat regelmaat regelmatig op maat, uitwisselen, rondjes lopen, gebaren, blikken, een wifi versterker en natuurlijk woorden , nee geen gedachten, dat kan niet
het was heel intiem zo dicht bij deze, merkwaardig hard werkende kunstenaars te zijn was intiem hun proces aan te raken en te voelen hoe mijn kijk op mjn toekomstig atelier zich in deze tijd heeft aangepast gepast, bijgesteld, verschoven, omgedraaid
ik ga misschien wel kleien, of gewoon meer om me heen kijken
o ja, het was heerlijk om voor ze te zorgen, alsnog zorgen,
this too passed by the language is also some some thing sure some sure that what yes what awkward awkwardly approaching rhythm in motion what the looking dilutes in to yes some regularity regular size, exchanging, circling, gestures, glances, a wifi amplifier and of course words. , no no thoughts, it can’t
it was very intimate to be so close to these, strangely hard working artists was intimate to touch their process and to feel how my view on my future studio adapted, adjusted, shifted, re-turned
I may start claying, or just look around me more
oh yes, it’s been wonderful taking care of them, as yet taking care,
net art, video, performance 
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