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 and 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 and 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 http://selfworld.net .
* U2’s Until the End of the World. http://lab404.com/misc/untiltheendoftheworld.mp3 |
