October 9, 2020 • 4:09 pm Comments Off on The Big Kiss au festival accès)s( #20
09/10-12/12 The Big Kiss dans Melting Point*, expo Bel Ordinaire, Pau.
Curation Jean-Jacques Gay.
Et aussi: 09/10-08/11 Méthodologie / Protocole de travail, Constallations, Collectif 3G, Melting Point* la suite , expo, Médiathèque A. Labarrère, Pau.
Filed under: Exhibition, Performance, Video, accès)s(, Constallations, The Big Kiss
July 19, 2020 • 3:29 pm Comments Off on The Big Kiss reperformed
Happy that my piece The Big Kiss from 2008 will be reperformed by Thomas Geiger in the 4th Festival of Minimal Actions on the 25th of July at 18h.
Kunsthalle Wien, Reumannplatz, July 15–August 2, 2020
Concept: Thomas Geiger
Realisation: Kunsthalle Wien as part of KISS
Curated by: Laura Amann, Anne Faucheret, Aziza Harmel, WHW
“As part of KISS, Thomas Geiger will realize a new edition of his Festival of Minimal Actions (previously staged in Brussels, 2014; Paris, 2015 and San José, 2018). In what could be considered a reawakening of performative works, Geiger creates situations that deal with the possibilities and impossibilities of physical interaction, affection, intimacy, and romance in public space during periods of pandemic…
…The festival – the main premise of which is a belief in the independence of performative works from their authors – brings together a concise selection of works by other artists that Geiger will reperform at Reumannplatz. Through the changed social, political, and temporal contexts between their original performance and this one, the works gain additional facets and shed some of their original aspects.”
Extracted from the exhibition text by Laura Amann, 2020.
Reperformed will be original works from Annie Abrahams (NL) • Breda Beban (SRB) • Sergio Rojas Chaves (CR) • Anetta Mona Chisa (RO) & Lucia Tkacova (SK) • Dora Garcia (ESP) • Vitya Gluchenko (UKR) • Javier González Pesce (CL) • Igor Grubic (HRV) • Satoshi Hashimoto (JP) • Adrien Missika (FR) • Cesare Pietroiusti (IT) • Neža Knez (SK) • Jiří Kovanda (CZ) • Donna Kukama (SA) • Alina Lupu (RO) • Ewa Partum (PL) • Charlotte Seidel (DE) • David Sherry (UK) • Yann Vanderme (FR).
All original performances are describes at the festival’s website.
I wish I lived in Wien for a few days.
Filed under: Performance, Festival of Minimal Actions, KISS, Kunsthalle Wien, Laura Amann, reperformance, The Big Kiss, Thomas Geiger
July 25, 2018 • 2:43 pm Comments Off on De-centralized Web?
The Big Kiss (2008) and Angry Women (2012) are shown together with Michael Szpakowski’s, House and Garden (2009) during the Decentralized Web Summit in San Fransisco.
August 1st and 2nd,
San Francisco Mint,
88 5th Street, San Francisco, CA.
For Ruth Catlow, who curated Furtherfield’s screening room as a part of the “creative track” programmed by Sam Hart and Mindy Seu for DWS, these 3 artworks exemplify an attitude to artmaking particular to the Web before the great centralisation – these are works that speak from the origins of the P2P movement, a time in which communities began to form around new modes of networked interaction.
The Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit is dedicated to creating the web we want [and the web we deserve]. We are convening those who want to build a web that…
Remembers. Forgets. That’s safe. That cares about people. That’s a marketplace. That’s a public square. That learns. That’s magical. That’s fun. A web with many winners. A web that’s locked open for good.
Filed under: Exhibition, Of interest, angry women, Decentralized Web Summit, Furtherfield, Ruth Catlow, The Big Kiss
May 5, 2017 • 5:57 pm 1
You can make a story of telematic communication by looking at how people experiment with distanced kissing over time. Can you?
(Image from the collections of Galloway & Rabinowitz)In 1975, five years before their groundbreaking Hole-in-Space piece, Sherrie Rabinowitz and Kit Galloway used a selfmade experimental setup in the Sony Salon on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. Kit had a key and so they could use it after the opening hours of the showroom.
Kit and Sherrie did a lot of “Aesthetic Research in Telecommunications.” When I visit the website that documents this, I recognize they discovered and practiced probably all formal possibilities of being together in a composite image space. A feast of recognition.
They used split-screen, key images, life tv-footage and sometimes props. In what they called the space with no geographical borders they wanted to get rid of all borders, the split-screen border included and the above image of their kiss is an excellent example of the sensuality the merging of image-ambassadors can provoke.
Later this technique was used by Paul Sermon in Telematic Dreaming, a ISDN digital telephone installation from 1993. Nowadays, Daniel Pinheiro in Will you dance with me?! (2017) starts working in this direction. Station House Opera (among others) in 2016 was also using this technique in the At Home in Gaza and London performance project.
A Telematic Kissing Timeline?
Image from the collections of Galloway & Rabinowitz 1938 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/telegraph-kisses-are-new-fad/
Filed under: Of interest, Celeste Holm, Daniel Pinheiro, history, Jerry Lewis, Kissenger, kisstory, Kit Galloway, Lancel and Maat, Mark River, Nam June Paik, Nicolas Frespech, Paul Sermon, Sherrie Rabinowitz, Shirley Clarke, telematic communication, telematic kiss, The Big Kiss, timeline
May 3, 2017 • 5:25 pm 1
A few days ago Kit Galloway after his Networked Conversation with Randall Packer in the Third Space Network send Randall what might be the very first attempted transcontinental split-screen kiss – live via terrestrial microwave linked TV.
Jerry Lewis in Los Angeles and Celeste Holm in New York (She was an actress and the mother of Ted Nelson, the inventor of hypertext) opened the 29th Academy Awards – the Oscars in 1957 with an “akward”, prude kiss.
The other precursor was 17 years later in 1974 and was by Nam June Paik and Shirley Clarke. More about the discovery of this last version by the Videofreex here.
Filed under: Of interest, Celeste Holm, Jerry Lewis, Kit Galloway, microwave transmission, networked performance, Randall Packer, Ted Nelson, The Big Kiss
July 29, 2015 • 4:48 pm 1
In 2017
A The Big Kiss avant l’internet : A few days ago Randall Packer pointed me to what might be a precursor to my piece The Big Kiss from 2008. In his article Videofreex Chronicles #1: TV as Social Media he shows an image (by Deedee Halleck) of Explorations in the Videospace, Part I from 1974. It’s a splitscreen kiss performed by Nam June Paik and Shirley Clarke. The technical design is by David Cort of the Videofreex.
I am surprised and wondering if I would have been able to make The Big Kiss if I had know about it. Would it have been appropriation? And would I have been bothered by copyrights? Now, I know about it, I want to see these videos / TV images – do they still exist? Where to look for them?
I also found this one on pinterest posted by Rachel McBrinn. I wrote her and she answered that she pinned the image from teepeevideospacetroupe.org, which is now not a registered domain and didn’t know anything about the image.
Andrew Ingall, the curator of Videofreex: The Art of Guerrilla Television at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz reacted in a twit to my call for more info : @annieabrahams @ShirleyClarke Not aware of video documentation of Cort’s exhibition at The Kitchen. Read more here: amzn.to/1I9citt.
And so I googled “David Cort The Kitchen” and found another same image with a Greek text that google translated : “In this Polaroid, the Nam June Paik and Shirley Clarke trying to kiss in an installation created by David Cort (the Kitchen, 1974). See. Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future.” So I have to look for an installation in an exhibition in 1974. 
A few days later again I found the same image on a blogpost by DeeDee Halleck, and it turns out she was indeed the one who made the photo.
When looking further into Shirley Clarke’s video practice (Shirley Clarke – Is this reality?) I found that teepeevideospacetroupe.org was an archival website on her workshops made by Beth Capper. When I wrote Beth, she told me she couldn’t help, but that I should ask Andrew Gurian, a member of the videospace troupe, who gave her a scan of the photo.
So I wrote Andrew Gurian. He told me he owns what he thinks is the original Polaroïd, made by David Cort himself.
“At David’s show–really more an on-going installation–the live video images of two people, sitting on opposite sides of the room, were combined into one by a special effects generator or similar device, as you can see in the photo. If I recall correctly, David was present and had a Polaroid camera. He snapped photos of any of the show participants who wanted one as a souvenir. I believe the photo is question is one such example.”
David Cort is very ill and cannot be joined, maybe, maybe Tom Colley of the Video Data Bank, in Chicago may have more information; the Video Data Bank now has the archives of the Videofreex. Continues …
In 2017 Kit Galloway pointed me to other precursors. Here is the timeline / the kisstory that resulted from that.
Filed under: Of interest, DeeDee Halleck, Nam June Paik, networked performance, Randall Packer, Shirley Clarke, The Big Kiss, Videofreex
July 13, 2015 • 5:56 pm Comments Off on Catalog Stadtgalerie Mannheim
Recieved the catalog Stadtgalerie Mannheim 2011 – 2015.
Editor Benedikt Stegmayer, Stadtgalerie Mannheim.
Published by Einraumhaus c/o Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-944128-50-4.
On page 65 there are two photos from the presentation of the video from The Big Kiss, a performance with Mark River, MTAA from 2008.
In the show Subversive Systeme, curated by the editor, this video was presented in the vicinity of a video by epidemiC, where Franco Berardi (Italian Media Philosopher) reads the source code of the “I LOVE YOU” virus at the D-I-N-A (Digital Is Not Analog) digital art festival.
I love the combination.
Thanks Benedikt.
Filed under: Articles / Texts, Benedikt Stegmayer, catalog, epidemiC, Franco Berardi, Mark River, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Subversive Systeme, The Big Kiss
October 17, 2014 • 9:19 pm Comments Off on Subversive Systeme. Poetische Transfiguration des Digitalen.
Subversive Systeme. Poetische Transfiguration des Digitalen. Group Exhibition Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Germany. Press conference: Tuesday, 21. October, 11 am. Opening: 23 October 2014 at 8pm. Open: 24 October 2014 – November 30 2014. Curator: Benedikt Stegmayer
Artists: Annie Abrahams, [epidemiC] / Franco Berardi, plan b, Volker Hartmann-Langenfelder, Igor Štromajer
I will present : The Big Kiss (2008) (with Mark River, MTAA)
Angry Women take 1 & 2 (2011) (With Albertine Meunier, Anne Laforet, Caroline Delieutraz, Hedva Eltanani, Helen Varley Jamieson, Ienke Kastelein, Inès Kchaou, Julie Chateauvert, Karen Dermineur, Laurence Moletta, Laurie Bellanca, Lizvlx, Lucille Calmel, Simona Polvani, Martina Ruhsam, Hortense Gauthier, Olga Kisseleva, Pascale Barret, Paula Roush, Sabine Revillet, Suzon Fuks and Ursula Endlicher. – Co production : Labomédia Orléans, residency in the frame of Géographies Variables / Aide à la création Région Languedoc Roussillon)
Huis Clos / No Exit – Beyond (spectacle) I, II, III – Exposition on the New Aesthetic. – Newer Aesthetic. – The internet is not as good as it was yesterday. (2012) (With Igor Stromajer, Nicolas Frespech, Ruth Catlow, Ursula Endlicher – co-production ELMCIP) Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Exhibition, angry women, Benedikt Stegmayer, Huis Clos / No Exit, Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Subversive Systeme, The Big Kiss
June 18, 2009 • 11:00 pm Comments Off on The Big Kiss in Ljubljana
The Big Kiss (20 & 21 June 2009)
Live Internet Broadcast Performance by Annie Abrahams (Ljubljana)
“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 is better! This might be a female point of view.”
Annie Abrahams
Pascale Gustin commented this video: “L’image du baiser, ou plutôt de l’acte d’embrasser, comme j’ai pu le voir dimanche, dans cette performance, me semble une forme de communication très primaire et très belle. Un langage primordial d’avant le langage, animal ***les léchouilles des primates!!!!***. C’est très fort, je crois, mais on n’en perçoit pas toute la dimension lors de la performance en ligne. Par contre, c’est tout à fait pertinent dans cette vidéo…”
=Live Internet Broadcast Performance: Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana
21 June 2009 at 9.30 pm
Author: Annie Abrahams
Intimate Mobile Communicator: Igor Štromajer
Web Cam N.1: Martina Ruhsam – Vienna, Austria
Web Cam N.2: Vlado G. Repnik – Ljubljana, Slovenia
Produced by Intima Virtual Base – Institute for Contemporary Arts
Tech: TokBox, Ustream.tv
& Photo / Slide Show:
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+ Live Urban Mobile Guerrilla Performance: Ljubljana City Center
Le Tourisme. La Guérilla. L’Art.
20 June 2009 at 9.30 pm (SlideShare lowest-res documentation)
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# additional references (The Big Kiss in New York City, 2008):
aabrahams.wordpress.com/tag/the-big-kiss
www.bram.org/toucher/TBK.html
Filed under: Performance, Intima virtual base, Martina Ruhsam, pascsaq, The Big Kiss, Vlado G. Repnik, Škuc Gallery
October 31, 2008 • 12:08 pm Comments Off on Le baiser le plus long …..
Car dans la performance d’Annie Abrahams, The Big Kiss, réalisée le 10 octobre dernier à OTO (Over The Opening, New York), la réflexion n’est pas tant la durée, mais à nouveau le rapport réel/virtuel, chair/image, que l’artiste avait déjà développé dans son précédent “L’un la poupée de ‘autre”……………….
Suite : “Le baiser le plus long… ou pas.” Article de Troudair pour Fluctuat. 31.10.08. (French)
Filed under: Articles / Texts, fluctuat, Français, The Big Kiss, Troudair
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