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
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
Live Urban Guerrilla Performance: Ljubljana City Center
Saturday, 20 June 2009 at 9.30 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Live Broadcast Performance: Škuc Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana
Sunday, 21 June 2009 at 9.30 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Produced by Intima Virtual Base - Institute for Contemporary Arts
Tech: TokBox
# additional references (The Big Kiss in New York City, 2008):
http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/tag/the-big-kiss
http://www.bram.org/toucher/TBK.html
Link:
http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/the-big-kiss-ljubljana/
Annie Abrahams has a doctorate in biology from the university of Utrecht and a grade from the Academy of fine arts of Arnhem. In her work, using video, performance as well as the internet, she questions the possibilities and the limits of communication in general and more specifically investigates its modes under networked conditions. She is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art.
She has performed and shown work extensively in France, including at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and in many international galleries including among others Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan; HTTP gallery in London and NIMk in Amsterdam; festivals such as the Moscow Film Festival; the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and the Stuttgarter Filmwinter, and on online platforms such as Rhizome.org and Turbulence.
She teached at the university of Montpellier in the arts department. (2002-2005) From november 2006 to january 2009 she curated the project “InstantS” for panoplie.org. She also curated and organized the “Breaking Solitude” and Double Bind webperformances on panoplie.org in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Besides doing her art work she lectures and teaches workshops.
Information, articles etc. http://www.bram.org/info and http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/
Gloria Sutton