[spectre] At HTTP Gallery, If not you not me - Annie Abrahams.

[marc garrett]

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If not you not me
Annie Abrahams

HTTP Gallery, London
12 February – 20 March 2010
Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm

Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6:30-9pm
Free admission to exhibition and events.
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/ifnotyounotme/index.shtml

Annie Abrahams (b. NL 1954 , lives and works FR) is an internationally 
regarded pioneer of networked performance art. 'If not you not me' at 
HTTP Gallery in London is the first exhibition of her work in the UK. 
Where social networking sites make us think of communication as clean 
and transparent, Annie Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling – of 
agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. Working with simple 
interfaces, carefully crafted instructions and disruptions in data-flow, 
Abrahams sensitises participants and audiences to glitches in 
communication and invites them to experience and reflect on different 
ways of being together in a machine-mediated world. The exhibition asks 
how we deal with the tensions of collaboration and physical separation 
as we negotiate relationships through video imagery, computer software 
and digital networks.

Abrahams has created three new works for 'If not you not me' at HTTP 
Gallery, inviting collaboration from visitors to the gallery and others 
around the world. Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partagée, a telematic 
still life for mixed media and LED message board, asks visitors to HTTP 
Gallery and Kawenga - territoires numériques in Montpellier, France to 
communicate with one another by arranging objects in the still life and 
sending messages to one another, with the results visible in a 
projection in both galleries.

The exhibition's private view also includes two new collaborative 
performances to be documented and shown in the exhibition. On 
Collaboration Graffiti Wall, a collective text and speech performance, 
draws on reflections around the nature and problems of online 
collaboration collected via a website.
Huis Clos / No Exit - Jam involves four women artists sitting before 
webcams in different locations around the world. They will try to 
organise a unified sound performance, working with and around the 
inevitable delays that result from the international live feed. In 
addition to the new works, the exhibition presents documentation of 
recent networked performances created and curated by Abrahams.

If not you not me is co-produced by Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery, 
London, and bram.org and Kawenga - territoires numériques, Montpellier, 
France. Furtherfield.org supports experimental practices at the 
intersections of art, technology and social change. This exhibition was 
conceived in connection with Furtherfield.org's Rich Networking project 
interrogating the transparency of communication, artistic collaboration 
and sociability through digital networks. This is the fourth event in 
Furtherfield.org's three-year Media Art Ecologies programme which 
foregrounds practices sharing an ecological approach - an interest in 
the interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and 
things, individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns.


Events
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Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6:30-9pm, HTTP 
Gallery

7pm: On Collaboration Graffiti Wall - Collective text and speech 
performance at gallery.
To contribute or view texts to be used during the performance visit 
http://bram.org/collaboration/index.php.
 
8pm: Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partagée goes live - telematic 
still Life installation at HTTP Gallery and Kawenga - territoires 
numériques, Montpellier, France.
 
8:30pm: Huis Clos / No Exit - Jam - Telematic performance projected at 
HTTP Gallery, featuring Anteye Greie (Hailuoto, FI), Pascale Gustin 
(Paris, FR), Helen Varley Jamieson (Wellington, NZ), and Maja Kalogera 
(Madrid, ES).

More Information

Annie Abrahams - http://aabrahams.wordpress.com
Bram.org - http://bram.org
Kawenga - territoires numériques - http://www.kawenga.org
Furtherfield.org's Media Art Ecologies programme - 
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
 
HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY.
http://www.http.uk.net