Beyond (spectacle) Episode I
Performance Annie Abrahams & Igor Stromajer,
SHOW OFF ART FAIR
Programmation Performances / Curator Madeleine Filippi
Friday 19 October 2012 – 19h30
Room 7.2. 7 rue des filles du calvaire 75003 Paris
Streaming Ivan Chabanaud Mosaika.tv
Technical assistance Jan de Weille
Igor in Hamburg and Annie in Paris will be united in a webcam performance interface. Igor and Annie will be the marionettes to be put into (e)motion via the text written by the public on their smartphones. Two speakers will read this text aloud in front of the public while Annie and Igor will execute as good as they can the protocol and commands proposed to them.
Marionettes / Scripting Reality / On Manipulation / Txt Theater / Public Collaboration Dynamics
Online assistence http://showoffparis.fr/performances/
Link:
http://showoffparis.fr/performances/
Address:
ShowOff Art Fair Paris
7 rue des Filles du Calvaire
Paris, 75003
France
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