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 Endlicher, Nicolas 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.

Filed under: Performance, Edinburgh College of Art, ELMCIP, Huis Clos / No Exit, Igor Stromajer, mosaika.tv, New Aesthetic, Nicolas Frespech, Remediating the Social, Ruth Catlow, Ursula Endlicher

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

Ne me touchez pas / Don’t touch me (2003)

Ne me touchez pas / Don’t touch me (2003)
included in ELMCIP’s knowledgebase

“The author plays on the apparent incompatibility between narrativity and interactivity to suggest the user to learn to resist his desire to click, but also to apprehend differently the representations – especially online – of the woman body.”
Reviewed by Serge Bouchardon
“L’auteur joue sur l’incompatibilité apparente entre narrativité et interactivité pour suggérer sans doute à l’interacteur d’apprendre à résister à son désir de cliquer, maisaussi à appréhender différemment les représentations – notamment en ligne – du corps féminin.”

Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a collaborative research project funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation.

Filed under: Articles / Texts, Net art, ELMCIP, interactivity, Serge Bouchardon, touch, toucher