The Big Kiss

Image from the performance “One the puppet of the other” with NicolasFrespech, May 26th 2007, Centre Pompidou Paris.

On October 10 2008 , from 7pm to 10 pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present The Big Kiss, a performance installation by Annie Abrahams.

OTO N6 Street, Brooklyn New York

What’s contact in a machine mediated world? What’s the power of the image? How does it feel to kiss without touching? Does the act change because we see it? What does it mean to construct an image with your tongue? And is there still desire? Does the act provoke it? What’s contact in a machine mediated world?

Machine mediated kissing in a performance = drawing with your tongue = taking pleasure, while constructing an image = a way to be superaware of the other = never totally abandoning yourself =  ???????? = not at all like real kissing, it’s better! This might be a female view point.

Video : 5 min extract while performing with Mark RiverIf not available you can watch the video on vimeo.
A 20 min hi-res version is available for projections and installations on demand.

More photos from the 3 hours lasting Big Kiss performance at OTO on October 10 now up at OTO’s Flickr Set.

Overview of the installation while performing with a Ursula Endlicher.

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Thanks to the Consulate General of the Netherlands for their generous support which made my stay in New York possible.

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Annie Abrahams is a Dutch artist living in France. Abrahams work is featured on her site “Being Human / Etant Humain”: a big interlinked universe that concentrates on the possibilities and limitations of communication as well as at aabrahams.wordpress.com

OTO Over The Opening. Once a month, from 7PM to 10PM, the artist collective MTAA convert their N6th St. Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art.

MTAA artist collective. Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden formed the artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York city; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, CA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Filed under: Performance, Video, Brooklyn, Mark River, MTAA, New York, OTO, The Big Kiss, Ursula Endlicher

Thanks rhizome

Will Pappenheimer,  Marek Walczak, Marisa Olson, Annie Abrahams, Nadia Anderson.

Marisa Olson, Annie Abrahams

Video of the presentation: Rhizome Commissions ’08 4/5

New Media Presentation / Discussion
Saturday, October 11th 2008 at 3pm
the New Museum, New York, NY

Oppera Internettikka – Protection et Sécurité by Igor Stromajer and Annie Abrahams: Support for the presentation: http://bram.org/info/oips/new_museum.htm

More photos on flickr by Gerard Dalmon

Also thanks for the generous support of the Consulate General of the Netherlands who made my stay in New York possible.

Filed under: Event, Igor Stromajer, New Museum, New York, Oppera Internettikka, Rhizome Commissions, rhizome.org

Rhizome Commissions 08

Rhizome Commissions ‘08
New Media Presentation / Discussion – Part of New Silent
Saturday, October 11th 2008 at 3pm
the New Museum, New York, NY

The last in a three-part series that features presentations by artists awarded grants through Rhizome’s Commissions Program. Founded in 2001 to support artists working with technology, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded fifty-four commissions to date. Projects realized through the Program represent some of the most forward-thinking and innovative works of media and Internet-based art. In this evening’s program, the artists will discuss their commissioned projects and larger bodies of work.

This event features Annie Abrahams, Fritz Donnelly, John Craig Freeman, Will Pappenheimer, Lee Walton, Marek Walczak, and Martin Wattenberg.

New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, 212.219.1222
$6 Members, $8 General Public

Filed under: Event, Christine Kattner, commissions, Igor Stromajer, Montpellier, New Museum, New York, Oppera Internettikka, panoplie.org, Protection et Sécurité, rhizome.org

The Big Kiss (français)

Image de la performance / vidéo “L’un la poupée de l’autre” avec Nicolas Frespech,  26 mai 2007, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Le 10 octobre entre 19 et 22h 10,  Over The Opening présente The Big Kiss, une performance installation de Annie Abrahams.

Qu’est-ce que c’est le contact dans un monde où tout est médié par une machine ? Quelle est la puissance de l’image? Qu’est-ce qu’on ressent quand on s’embrasse sans se toucher ? L’acte change-t-il parce que nous le voyons ? Qu’est-ce que ça signifie de construire une image avec sa langue ? Y a-t-il encore du désir ? L’acte le provoque-t-il ? Qu’est-ce que c’est le contact dans un monde où tout est médié par une machine ?

Si vous êtes à New York, vous êtes invité à participer à la création d’un baiser collective à OTO.

Plus d’information, vidéo, photos :  http://www.bram.org/toucher/TBK.html

Filed under: Performance, MTAA, new media, New York, OTO, public participation, The Big Kiss