[NetBehaviour] Turbulence.org Commission: "besides, " 3 networked performances by Annie Abrahams and Martina Ruhsam

[New Radio and Performing Arts Inc.]

June 7, 2015

Turbulence.org Commission: "besides," 3 networked performances by Annie
Abrahams and Martina Ruhsam

http://turbulence.org/commissions/besides



June 11, 12, & 13 online http://bram.org/besides at 19:00 (CET), 1:00 pm
(EDT) (find your local time at http://ow.ly/NZcmF) Streaming by Ivan
Chabanaud/mosaika.tv.



Annie and Martina will investigate the performative potential of real time
computer-mediated communication. By listening to each other's gestures (in
a visual and acoustic sense) they will choreograph each other's actions,
despite Annie being in Montpellier, France and Martina in Berlin, Germany.
Will they be able to create an intimate space within two webcam windows
framed side-by-side on their screens? What will emerge when two vulnerable
bodies, their silences, fragmented communication, a few mundane objects,
and a lot of uncertainty collide?



June 11, 2015: "besides, the person I am becoming."

Duration 20 minutes

The audience can interact via a chat window



June 12, 2015: "besides, moved by some thing." An intimate conversation on
death and illness.

Duration undetermined.

No interaction with the public.



June 13, 2015: "besides, Dear Body,"

Duration 3 minutes.

With public chat window, so we can discuss afterwards.



"besides," is a 2015 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for
its Turbulence.org website. It was made possible with funds from the
National Endowment for the Arts.



BIOGRAPHIES



Annie Abrahams has a doctorate (M2) in biology from the University of
Utrecht and a MA2 from the Academy of Fine Arts of Arnhem. She is known
worldwide for her netart and collective writing experiments, and is an
internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. From
2002-2005, she taught at the University of Montpellier in the Arts
Department. Abrahams curated and organized "InstantS" (2006-2009) and
the "Breaking
Solitude" and "Double Bind" web performance series (2007-2009) for
panoplie.org. In 2012 she co-­organized "Cyposium," an online symposium on
cyberformance; and she published an article on webcam mediated
communication and collaboration in JAR #2. In 2013 Abrahams and Emmanuel
Guez started the "ReadingClub" project, an online venue for collaborative
reading and writing performances. In 2014 she published two books: "from
estranger to e­stranger" with CONA and Aksioma, Ljubljana; and "CyPosium,"
co­edited with Helen Varley Jamieson and published by LINK Editions.



Martina Ruhsam is a choreographer, performer and writer. From October 2008
to March 2009 she was (vicarious) head of the theorycentre in Tanzquartier
Wien. In 2011 her book "Kollaborative Praxis: Choreographie" was published
by Turia + Kant. Her artistic work and collaborations were presented at
various venues and festivals, including: Wiener Festwochen, Tanzquartier
Wien, brut, Kino Siska, Mladi Levi Festival, Museum for Applied Arts,
Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art, Metelkova. Ruhsam taught at Maska's
Seminar for Performing Arts (Ljubljana) and she has lectured
internationally. She is also a member of the editorial board of Maska
Performing Arts Journal, and she regularly contributes articles to the
magazine. Currently she is completing a PhD at the Justus Liebig University
in Gießen.



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