date
2007format
dvdgenre
video web performanceproject description
In this video Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech comment on the present situation where we tend more and more to live in our own bubble, our own sphere, without need for the other, by forming a couple with our virtual doubles.
The video made after a performance in May 2007 at the Centre Pompidou in France can be seen as a gesture that reveals the play, and the perversities that result from it, between proximity and distance in Internet relations in a rather literal way.
Performance : On the scene two igloo tents. Two spaces in the shape of a sphere shelter two artists who devote themselves to a play in which they are the others living doll.
Inside their tents they are face to face via a system of two webcams. The public can follow the hidden face to face via an interface that permits to project the webcam images of the two artists side by side on the wall behind the tents.
As in a virtual world (a video game, Second Life) the artists give orders to their avatar played by the other. But contrary to what happens in the virtual world, here the alter ego is well alive. It has its own capacities and it can agree or not to give flesh to the projections of the other.
artist bio
Annie Abrahams was born in 1954 in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands. She lives Montpellier, France. She has a doctorat in biology and is a graduate in fine arts . Most of Abrahams's work is featured on her site "Being Human / Etant Humain" : a big interlinked universe that concentrates on the possibilities and limitations of communication. The site, voluntary low tech and not immersive, has been shown in numerous festivals and expositions all over the world. http://www.bram.org/info
