Image essay on ‘Training for a Better World’

“Michael Szpakowski reviews Annie Abrahams’ exhibition with a photo essay combining photo documentation, self portraiture and simple lively drawings to capture the elements and atmospheres of networked interactions. V. enjoyable” Ruth Catlow on facebook.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/image-essay-training-better-world

Michael Szpakowski also wrote a review on Training for A Better World, my solo exhibition in the CRAC Sète for dvblog. He especially pays attention to the video installation called Angry Women :
“There’s something both of portraiture and of the dance at work here, and a kind of found poetry too (which the moving image work has in common with the collaborative texts at the other end of the exhibition). The combination of iron control, planning, foresight (the grid, the protocols) with the letting go and trust evident elsewhere – the phased lengths, the blank space for the person who didn’t turn up, the open performative structure – makes for something of great richness.“ http://dvblog.org/?p=9025 (english & français)

Filed under: Articles / Texts, CRAC, DVblog, image essay, Michael Szpakowski, Training for a Better World

Mutant #2 on DVblog

“This piece is described as a video arising out of the second session of a “Telematic Performance / Experiment investigating communication and relational dynamics in a dispersed group.” and it’s bewitching.

The pages documenting it bear the motto “Communication is never clean, smooth and transparent” True – and to turn that truth into crystalline & affecting art is a little miracle.” Michael Szpakowski  http://dvblog.org/?p=7447

Filed under: Video, DVblog, Huis Clos / No Exit, Michael Szpakowski, Mutant

Double Blind (love) documentation

Special thanks to Bérénice Belpaire for her attention and help during the performance. Photos : Valérie Severac.

Project information

More photos

24 min. highlighted:

Screencapture by Suzon Fuks 33 min (with glitches):

If you want to listen to and watch the whole 264 minutes long performance please write to Annie or Curt.

“Interesting and affecting convergence of the performative work Curt Cloninger has been doing of late with the strange, wonderful & categorisation denying oeuvre of Annie Abrahams.“
5 min. special cut by Michael Szpakowski on DVblog

Documentation of the project by Curt

Textes :
David Bioules, Mail du dimanche 29 novembre 2009, 20h50 (ou improvisation sans recul) [http://livingroomart.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/doubleblindlove-textedavidbioules.pdf]

Texts:
David Bioules, Email Sunday November 29 2009, 8.50PM (or Improvising from scratch) [http://livingroomart.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/doubleblindlove_textedavidbioulesen.pdf]

Curt Cloninger (texte), Annie Abrahams (titre), It’s a time of “desire”, 28 novembre 2009 4:43pm, http://www.rhizome.org/ http://livingroomart.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/rhizome_curtcloninger_itsatimeofdesire.jpg

Matthew Pioro, Double Blind (Love), an Online Collaboration, 29 Novembre 2009 4:12 pm http://www.pioro.net/2009/11/double-blind-love-an-online-collaboration.shtml

Matthew Pioro, loK8Tr about the dangers and pitfalls of online collaboration, Musicworks, Issue 106 spring 2010, The future of radio, from web 2.0 to second life.  https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/about-the-dangers-and-pitfalls-of-online-collaboration/

Email exchange between Annie  Abrahams and Matthew Pioro Dec 2, 2009 at 5:48 AM:

Filed under: Performance, Video, Curt Cloninger, Double Blind, DVblog, Matthew Pioro

Squad performance video fragment

l’escouade “Je vous en prie, entrez“?

“Utterly bonkers* & totally splendid video documentation of a performance
by Annie Abrahams, Colette Tron et Emmanuelle Delafraye.
Annie Abrahams performs the movements whilst the others
read texts on the subject of fear, garnered, I believe, from the internet.” Michael Szpakowski on DVblog

Intervention pendant la session InternetMonAmour Pourquoi la création ne soutient pas la loi Hadopi dans le cadre du festival RIAM 06, 17 février  à 18h30 à la Boate à Marseille.

Musique Henryk Gorecki: mix de ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’

Attention son très bas, augmentez votre volume. http://vimeo.com/6926113

Filed under: Performance, Boate, Colette Tron, DVblog, Emmanuelle Delafraye, Henryk Gorecki, internetmonamour, Michael Szpakowski, RIAM 06, squad