[NetBehaviour] estranger -> e-stranger

[Annie Abrahams]

*From estranger to e-stranger*? Maybe a book, 62 posts now.  Since April I
am working on my (e)stranger website. There are now 62 very different posts
on http://e-stranger.tumblr.com. Some are personal, others go back to
litterature, art works or are more theoretical.
If after reading this email you have some ideas about information I should
also look at, please don't hesitate to mail me about it. ( I already
planned more on code, on Derrida and something on "talking with images")

Some *names* mentioned in the posts : Fassbinder, Louis Wolfson, Deleuze
and Guattari, Igor Stromajer, Kafka, Hương Ngô, Hannah Arendt, Antye Greie,
Talan Memmott, Katarina Zdjelar, Gijsbert Wouter Wahl, Zhuangzi, Mojca
Krisch, Hito Steyerl, Peppa Pig, Noa language school, Martine Neddam, Yasemin
Yildiz, Mounira al Solh, Friedrich Kittler, Gertrud Stein, Mlader
Stilinovic, Joseph Beuys, Tarkovsky, Julia Kristeva.

Some important *terms* in the posts : hommes traduits – the silent period –
minor litterature – bastard language – the postmonolingual – mother and
father tongues – een vreemde in eigen land – Elternloos / Stiefmoedertaal –
all nomads, being a stranger is the status quo – the broken one - talking
code?

PastMono, research, collage, bricolage, assemblage.

Here is how I formulated my starting point last April.
"
*When 12 years old, I went to high school for the first time, I noticed I
didn’t speak the same way as the other pupils. I went mute for three days
before trying to communicate again. In 1986 I moved from the Netherlands to
France and once again I was a ‘stranger’. I was the one who had to learn a
new language, who had an accent, who was difficult to understand, the one
the others had difficulties paying attention to because she spoke slowly
and had bad grammar. I was the ‘broken’ one. But I also was the outsider,
the one with distance, the one who didn’t know the rules, and so wasn’t
obliged to follow them, the one who could also be free. So when invited by
Cona, to come to Slovenia I decided to go back once more to the position of
being a stranger, of creatively playing with this place, of researching its
possibilities, beyond it’s handicapping proprieties and make work about
that.*"

*An estranger is* invisible, exotic, unidentifiable, rude, hybrid, blurry,
deformed, subversive, incomprehensible, complex, pliable, lonely, abject,
harder and more fragile at the same time.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/attachments/20140713/8dae260c/attachment.htm>