Double Blind (love)

« 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

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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/

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About Annie_Abrahams

Abrahams Annie
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English text below.

Annie Abrahams, artiste hollandaise, vit et travaille en France depuis vingt trois ans. Elle est docteur en biologie et diplômée de l’école des Beaux-Arts d’Arnhem. Son travail, qui utilise aussi bien la vidéo, la performance que l’Internet, questionne les relations interpersonnelles dans un monde de plus en plus médiatisé. De manière générale, sa démarche explore les possibilités et les limites de la communication et plus spécifiquement ses modalités propres au réseau.

Son projet « Being Human » a été présenté dans de nombreux festivals, musées, galeries et dans des lieux très divers partout le monde, dont notamment le Centre Pompidou à Paris, la Škuc Gallery à Ljubljana, la Centrale Powerhouse à Montréal, le Media Forum à Moscou, le New Museum à New York et le Goldsmiths à Londres.

Annie Abrahams a été chargée de cours dans le département des Arts Plastiques de l’université Paul Valéry à Montpellier de 2002 à 2005. Elle était le commissaire du projet "InstantS" sur panoplie.org et la curatrice et organisatrice des séries de performances sur le web, "Breaking Solitude" et "Double Bind".

Le 21 mars 2010 elle lancera "Textdynamics", une série de performances en écriture partagée, à la galerie HTTP à Londres. Elle sera par ailleurs en résidence au CNES la Chartreuse à Villeneuve lez Avignon et à HTTP à Londres de janvier à mars 2010. En parallèle de son travail d'artiste, Annie Abrahams donne des conférences et intervient dans le cadre de workshops au sein d'écoles des Beaux Arts ou d'autres structures.

Annie Abrahams a été aidée financièrement par le FRAC Languedoc Roussillon (aide à la production, 2003) , Vidéoformes 2003, la DRAC Languedoc Roussillon (Subvention à l'investissement, 2004, Aide à la création 2006), la Région Languedoc Roussillon (Aide à la maquette 2005, Bourse de création 2006, Aide à la création multimédia 2009), Rhizome.org et The New Museum, New York (Rhizome commissions 2008), le Consulat Général des Pays Bas à New York (Aide au déplacement 2008) et le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Aide à la maquette du DICRéAM, 2009).

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Annie Abrahams is a Dutch artist living in France for the past 23 years. She has a doctorate in biology (University of Utrecht) and is a graduate in fine arts (Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Arnhem). Her work, which uses video, performance, and the Internet, questions interpersonal relations in our increasingly mediatized world. She explores the possibilities and limits of communication in general and more specifically its conditions in networked situations.

Her project “Being Human” has been presented in festivals, museums, and galleries all over the world in a variety of venues including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana, La Centrale Powerhouse in Montreal, the Media Forum in Moscow, the New Museum in New York, and Goldsmiths in London.

Annie Abrahams was a part-time lecturer at the department of the Visual arts at the university Paul Valéry in Montpellier from 2002 till 2005.Since November 2006 she has curated the project "InstantS" on panoplie.org and has organized and curated "Breaking Solitude" and "Double Bind," two performances series on the Web.

She will launch "Textdynamics," a performance series in collective writing, on March 21st 2010 at the HTTP gallery in London. From January to March 2010, she will be a resident at the CNES Chartreuse, Villeneuve lez Avignon and at HTTP London. Parallel to her artistic work, Annie Abrahams gives lectures and organises workshops.


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