[spectre] 28/10 2011- 01/01 2012 exhibition Training for a Better World by Annie Abrahams

[Annie Abrahams]

28 October 2011 - 7:00pm - 1 January 2012 - 6:00pm
Venue/Location: Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain
Languedoc-Roussillon - 26, Quai Aspirant Herber - 34200 SÈTE- France
Link: http://crac.languedocroussillon.fr/artiste_fiche/254/3172-artistes.htm
Opening : Friday 28 October 2011 6:30 pm

Personal show presenting 5 video works (captured webperformances), 5
reactualisation of texts from collective writing projects on the
internet, two drawings and a book. All works have been made in
collaboration with others. Some works need public participation.

Is the artist, Annie Abrahams, in training for a better world, when
she appears on the invitation for the exhibition, "Training for a
Better World", spinning around in a deserted landscape?
Maybe. Yet, the pieces she has presented to the Regional Centre of
Contemporary Art were all done in collaboration with others. The
artist does not show us what this better world will be like, she even
says that she has no idea, but she insinuates that it will be built on
multiple voices and the dissension between art and non-art, between
politics and the a-political, between the common and the singular, and
between the everyday and the exceptional.(1)
Annie Abrahams intentionally paraphrases Jacques Rancière when she
says that "reality must be captured to make it accessible to thought".
She reveals this often dirty, boring, banal, sometimes vulgar, and
always fractured and multiple reality in her pieces of performance,
video and "shared writing" on the Internet. And to do this, she has
chosen to work around universal concepts: fear, anger, loneliness,
madness, love, etc.

More information

(1). The artist talks about it in an interview with Manuel Fadat, the
author of Conversations with Claire Fontaine, Stephen Wright, Paul
Ardenne and Alain Badiou, published in 2010 by Éditions Appendices.
Fadat raises "the question of political and social dimensions in
contemporary art." The interview is published by the artist and is
included in the exhibition. The text of this conversation in French
will be available from October 28 on lulu.com as a book, ebook and as
a pdf (free).

With: Albertine Meunier, Anne Laforet, Bérénice Belpaire, Caroline
Delieutraz, Curt Cloninger, Elisa Fantozzi, Enna Chaton, Fabien
Mousse, Hedva Eltanani, Helen Varley Jamieson, Hortense Gauthier,
Ienke Kastelein, Inès Kchaou, Jan de Weille, Julie Chateauvert, KaReN,
Laurence Moletta, Laurie Bellanca, Liz Vlx, Lucille Calmel, Manuel
Fadat, Martina Ruhsam, Nicolas Frespech, Olga Kisseleva, Olga P
Massanet, Pascale Barret, Paula Roush, Sabine Revillet, Simona
Polvani, Suzon Fuks and Ursula Endlicher.

I hope sincerely to see some of you in Sète,
Yours
Annie



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Exercises in remote collaboration – Huis Clos / No Exit – (or, “how
cyberformance reveals intimacy”) Text for my ISEA presentation
available from http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/exercises/