[spectre] Double Bind web performance by Robin Nicolas, Monday January12th.

[aabrahams]

Please join us on Monday January 12th, 20h30 Paris time, for a web
performance by Robin Nicolas in the "Double Bind" series of
panoplie.org.

Removal
deletion, suppression, cleaning, disappearance, withdrawal, ablation,
expulsion, transfer, liquidation, remotion, clearance, elimination,
eradication, purge, riddance, dismissal - The deconstruction of space
in response to the release of voice …

Nicolas Robin does not look at the Internet; he thoroughly breaks it
up by observation. This artist experiments the net with the attitude
of a person who learns a foreign language. However, time going by, he
tries to invent a new grammar, a suitable syntax that should exceed
the insipidness, the noise of the chatter and the visual exchanges.
Between the archaeologist and the surgeon, he opens, cuts, sizes,
scrapes the surface of  the data-flows to detect its basic life
matter, its obsessions, and he tries to connect one after the other
the elements often scattered, in decompositions and heterogeneous
entities.
This performance can be seen as a kind of invitation to build step by
step, prudently his language. It can also be analysed as an attempt to
stitch together the one (the presence of the invited woman) and the
other (an image collected during his former navigations) in the moment
of the connection. There was, there is, and this performance will
undoubtedly give its place to a there will be…
(Cyril Thomas, 1-2009)

Nicolas Robin is an artist, an assembler, who lives in Brussels and
elsewhere. His works are anchored in a research on intimacy and
communication altered by the use of Internet. At the border of absence
and presence he explores in data-flows and surfaces even the most
negligible contradictions.

"En suspens" http://robinnicolas.net/ensuspens.htm
"Shuffle" http://www.robinnicolas.net/shuffle.mov
"Nicolas Robin" : http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=1215528384

Access to the performances is open to all. You only have to connect to
http://2008.panoplie.org/DoubleBind on Monday the 12th at 8.30 pm
GMT+1 (Paris local time). Please follow this URL
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_FR.aspx?y=2009&mo=1&d=12&h=20&mn=30
to find your local hour.
However, you will have to subscribe to panoplie to obtain a password
in order to participate in the chat. (Top left of the screen)

Hope to meet you there.
Annie Abrahams

Ps
More information about the Double Bind series:
http://2008.panoplie.org/files/doublebind/PC_DB_PL_eng.pdf

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