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

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

L’envoyer à Mars pour y trouver la quiétude / Send it to Mars so it can rest

Performance for the inauguration of the bleuOrange hypertext webzine.
March 20 2008, 7 pm, studio OBORO, 4001, Montréal.
photo JR Carpenter
How to disperse the popular discours on violence?

Performance with Rebecca Barnstapple (choreographer) and her company Teatro de las Flores. 15 min.
After 5 minutes of looking at the video projection of a accelerated reconstruction of the text “Qu’est-ce que c’est la violence ?” written by website visitors of bram.org between 07 04 2006 and 16 05 2007, the silence was broken by three instruments (pertcussion, cello, clarinet), two dancers started dancing, they were joined by 11 others and the public.

One minute video impression on youtube

Filed under: Performance, BleuOrange, dance, Montréal, Oboro, Rebecca Barnstapple, violence.exe

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