ALLERGIC TO UTOPIAS http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1902
Digimag published an interview by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] with me.
On gender, intimacy, sex, biology, how scientific approaches influence my performance works, the role of the public and finally it contains a word or two on politics
My thinking is more about communication: about, on the one hand, the desire of being close with someone and, on the other, the necessity of restricting one's openness, of closing oneself, of retreating from intimacy. ...Maybe a performance is for me, as an artist, what an article is to a scientific researcher -that is, a way to make public, to share, something that you think is important for other people to know about or to feel. ... I hate politics. I prefer action
I hope you will be interested.
L’ALLERGIA ALLE UTOPIE http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1888
Link:
http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1902
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/
marc garrett