« One
day (what will have happened?), a far-seer will abandon his or her
segment and start walking across a narrow overpass above the dark
abyss, will break his or her telescope and depart on a line of fl ight
to meet a blind Double approaching from the other side » Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
« By repetition you can increase the chance that your choice
will sound as far as the borders of the network, but you also risk
toppling over the landscape (previously filled with surprises) into a
monotonous desert » Annie Abrahams 1993

Double Blind (Love)
Telepresence performance
Annie
Abrahams. Living Room, Montpellier, France. Sunday November 29, from
6PM until the end of the performance (Living Room will remain open
until 23:30PM).
Curt Cloninger. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville,
North Carolina, US. Sunday November 29, from noon until the end of the
performance.
Annie
Abrahams and Curt Cloninger will present a telepresence performance,
Sunday, November 29. Annie Abrahams (from the Living Room in
Montpellier, France) and Curt Cloninger (from Black Mountain College
Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, North Carolina, US) will repeatedly
sing "love, love, love" (a short excerpt from a pop song*) as a kind of
duet, in real time/space and online.
In order to isolate them from their surroundings and make them more
attentive to the other, they will both be blindfolded. While singing
they hope to evolve, mutating the original song excerpt, collaborating
and communicating in a space/time of alterity. The artists have never
met each other in the flesh.
There is no set duration. They will sing until the first one of
them decides to stop. In both places a space will be reserved for the
live performance and another for the video and audio projection. A
camera will be fixed on each of their faces singing to each other. This
live video of both faces will be projected both in the Living Room
space and in the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center space. The
performance will also be visible on the web at selfworld.net.
* U2’s Until the End of the World. http://lab404.com/misc/untiltheendoftheworld.mp3
Information : http://livingroomart.wordpress.com/performance/double-blind-love/
Press release : http://livingroomart.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/doubleblindlove_dossierpressebr2.pdf
LIVING ROOM Espace de création contemporaine, 5 Rue Fouques, 34000 Montpellier, France
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, Asheville, NC, US
Internet http://www.selfworld.net/