besides, - 3 online performances

Next week Thursday, Friday and Saturday you are most welcome to assist in:

besides,
A Turbulence commission with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Three online experiments by Annie Abrahams and Martina Ruhsam, who will investigate the performative potential of computer-mediated performance. By listening to each other´s gestures (in a visual and acoustic sense) they will choreograph each other despite being geographically far away from each other – Annie will be in Montpellier, Martina in Berlin.

19h CET - 1pm EDT - online bram.org/besides (find you local time)
streaming Ivan Chabanaud / mosaika.tv

Thursday June 11 2015 : besides, the person I am becoming.
Duration 20 minutes. The audience can interact via a chatwindow.
As an assemblage of text-fragments and daily objects this live-performance is a series of linkages and open relations between words and banal things.
What do words, a pencil and a stone have in common? Does the stone change when being confronted by a hammer? What changes if it is replaced by a pill? Does the image of a spoon change the thought or does the thought change the thing?
Images talk as much as words. A month long, Martina and Annie collected words and objects – overheard phrases, poetry, academic citations, a piece of concrete, foam, a photo, a scan. Who says what? What can we understand? What if?

Friday June 12 2015 : besides, moved by some thing.
Duration undetermined. No interaction with the public.
When facing death or illness all the accumulated knowledge surrounding these issues is displaced by experiences that can hardly be shared. Can liminal experiences be communicated verbally?
Annie and Martina recently both had an intimate encounter with death and illness and noticed it is very difficult to talk about this experience to others. Some people flee, others need to be reassured. Most art only touches upon it in a symbolical way.
 Annie and Martina will try to exchange views on the subject. They prepared this meeting individually, and agreed upon only one rule: the performance will be over when both their webcams will be black for more than one minute.

Saturday June 13 2015 : besides, Dear Body,
Duration 3 minutes. With public chatwindow, so we can discuss afterwards.
A visual letter to (and from) two breathing bodies – exposing their fragility, vulnerability, mortality, strength, singularity and anonymity. Our Bodies are full of History. History is embodied – the skin being the imaginary boundary between a "you" and a "me".
Dear body, dear body – dear aging body…
[text=center]There is always something that escapes — some dimension of objects, bodies, events, and processes that withdraws despite all visual presence.[/text]

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