Open Publishing Fest – reariting

On Wednesday Mai 27th 21h Paris time (CEST) the group Constallationss* proposes a Reariting** session during the Open Publishing Fest***  (OPF May 18-29)
The session will last 90 min and takes a text related to the book Thought in the Act by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi as its starting point.

If you want to rearite with us on the 27th, please write to Annie bram.org@gmail.com or Alix alixdesaubliaux@gmail.com to reserve your place.
Info : https://constallationss.hotglue.me/?OPF

reariting a method to think together

The session will start with a 10 min long explanation and attunement on zoom.
Then the participants will go to a collective writing pad where they will find a link to the selected text that they start reading individually. On the pad they write their notes, reflexions, questions, digressions – the ones through the others – and react to those of the others.
After one hour of reariting we will shortly reconnect in zoom to discuss the process.

this is not about producing a text together, but about using reariting as a technique to think through a text together.

*Constallationss is an online art / research group started in 2018 by Annie Abrahams, Alix Desaubliaux and Pascale Barret. In 2020 Alice Lenay, Carin Klonowski and Gwendoline Samidoust joined. The group uses the internet, challenges and surprises as tools for what Annie called contemporary net art, Pascale a non-binary inclusive laboratory, and Alix performative and collaborative explorations. Their methodology: constallations.hotglue.me/?methodologie

**Reariting manifests itself as a facilitator for a diffractive, distributed intelligence on-the-fly, creating text and relational patterns that do not depend on canons. It generates creative and unexpected “outcomes”. These are, in my opinion, not so much the texts produced, as the “diffractive moments” experienced by the reariters.
( https://aabrahams.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/diffractive-1.pdf )

***Open Publishing Fest is a decentralized public event that brings together communities supporting open source software, open content, and open publishing models. Held over two weeks in May, Open Publishing Fest will feature discussions, demos, and performances that showcase our paths toward a more open world.

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Collective writing, Event, Collective writing, constallationss, feminist research, open publishing fest, reariting, Thought in the Act

FR / ENG Queneau ReadingClub

ENG
Some remarks on the relation / differences between the English and French sessions (I don’t necessarily agree with all these):
* the English were more respectfull of the original text – the French massacred the text
* the English were more subtle than the French
* the French went deeper – had a more Queneauesque approach
* the French have acted as individuals, the English were more oriented to doing something together
* the English were reading more, the French were writing
This doesn’t say anything about being English nor about being French

FR
Quelques remarques / des comparaisons de les sessions en français et en anglais (je n’adhère pas forcément à toutes) :
*les anglais étaient plus respectueux du texte – le français massacraient le texte
*les anglais étaient plus fines que les français
*les français allaient plus en profondeur concernant l’approche Queneauesque
*les français ont agis comme individualistes, les anglais plus en commun
*les anglais ont plus lu les français ont plus écrit
Ceci ne veut rien dire des anglais et des français

Verification 2 Sessions Jeu de Paume Queneau 19 nov 2013 :

Timeline of the reading/writing in English:
KIND. OF. OR A KNOT OF KIND.
http://readingclub.fr/events/528b45f0db03b5a945000006/0/text

L’historique de la lecture/écriture en français :
Avant. Et maintenant.
http://readingclub.fr/events/528b45f0db03b5a945000006/1/text

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Collective writing, comparaison fr eng, Queneau, Reading Club, ReadingClub

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/

Glitched version found on my computer in 2015

https://vimeo.com/142997527

Presented in ϟℙ∀ℳℳ▁ℙϴШ€ℜ
Curators : Ellectra Radikal & Systaime
April 2017.

Filed under: Performance, Arnolfini, Collective writing, ELMCIP, Igor Stromajer, webperformance

Violence.exe

A popular discourse on violence.

Software for pc. Release 11 2008.
Accelerated reconstruction of a collective text written between 07 04 2006 and 16 05 2007.

Un discours populaire sur la violence.

Filed under: Net art, Collective writing, exe, Jan de Weille, pc, violence

Iamanartwork archives

Between January 2002 and November 2007 the visitors of the webpages http://www.fraclr.org/users/abrahams/jesuisunoeuvredart.pl and http://www.fraclr.org/users/abrahams/iamanartwork.pl could participate in a collective net art work.

What remains of this experiment in shared writing is a collective text, a range of arguments and moods around the concept of ” artwork”; artwork in general, but also more specific net artwork.

As Olia Lialina demonstrates in the article “Location=”Yes”“, the information in the location bar of a navigator is important and artists use this in their works. Thus I am glad that the archives are located on the site of the FRACLR, an official French art institution with a big collection of contemporary art.
Information en français.

Filed under: Collective writing, Net art, archives, Cécile Petit, CIAC, Collective writing, Frac Languedoc Roussillon, Joachim Desarmenien, Montréal, Olia Lialina

MONOCHROME

“I AM (NOT) AN ARTWORK / JE (NE) SUIS (PAS) UNE OEUVRE D’ART” is a piece, started in 2002 on the site of the fraclr.org. A text originally written by Bertrand Gauguet (a French art critic) can be changed by the visitors. Each change makes the text lighter of color and finally after 10 changes the text becomes white and dissolves in an all white page.
The French version is monochromatic since September 2007. The English version still has a few steps to go.
This piece is included in “MONOCHROME” a show organised by INCIDENT.net and has been shown before at the site “Les 20 ans des FRAC” in 2004.

Filed under: Collective writing, Exhibition, Net art, Bertrand Gauguet, Collective writing, frac, incident.net, monochrome, web presentation

Le Choeur Souhaitant / The Wish Choir

La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse Montréal installation performance in the frame of Sortir de l’écran / Spoken Screen. 26 03 2008.

More photos

Wishes deposited on http://bram.org/wishes/index.php were distributed among the public and read aloud. In the mean time a french version of violence.exe was visible in the windowpane of the gallery. (English version soon to come)

Report : “Performance d’Annie Abrahams dans le cadre de la série Sortir de l’écran / Spoken screen” by Gabriel Gaudette for NT2, UQAM, Montréal.

Joanne Lalonde et Jule Chateauvert pendant la lecture.

Filed under: Performance, Collective writing, Gabriel Gaudette, La Centrale, Montréal, sortir de l'écran, spoken screen, violence.exe, wishes

electronic solitude

Reintroduce the body in the result of a collectif writing experiment on the web.
Workshop à l’UQAM Montréal. Annie Abrahams in collaboration with the sound artist Kathy Kennedy.

Listen to the result : Solitude.mp3

Context : Semaine Annie Abrahams, pionnière de l’art sur le Net, au Laboratoire NT2, à l’UQAM

Information on the collectif writing project (french)
Invitation to the workshop (french)

Lecture in ICI programme, UQAM, March 27 , 12h30, Montréal. Webpage for the lecture.

Filed under: Collective writing, Agence Topo, Canada, Collective writing, electronic solitude, ICI, Kathy Kennedy, Laboratoire nt2, Lecture, Montréal, mp3, sortir de l'écran, spoken screen, Uqam, Workshop