<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">dear alll,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">mario athanasiou from <a href="http://channelnormal.com" class="">channelnormal.com</a> invited me to continue a performance-series i started in 2008.</div><div class="">the performance is originaly created for the whitecube but will be presented online tomorrow (so please just imagine your desktop as the whitecube).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="fsl">when: The performance will take place on September 9th, </span>21:00 Berlin time (UTC+03)</div><div class="">where: <a href="http://www.channelnormal.com/" class="">http://www.channelnormal.com/</a></div><div class="">what: in the fall of 2008 Florian Kuhlmann presented the artist is
present for the first time as a metamodern remix of concept art, video
installation, net art and live performance at Worringer Platz in
Düsseldorf. The setting is conceivably simple: Kuhlmann sits in front of
his computer’s webcam and transmits the video-signal via live-stream in
the otherwise completely empty exhibition space.</div><div class=""><p class="">
“The Artist Is Present” is first and foremost an ironic commentary
regarding the codices of the global art system and the perception of an
established image of the artist. Simply because of that already, the
work pursues another approach than the eponymous and mawkish performance
by Marina Abramovic that caused a stir at the MoMa, New York two years
later.</p><p class="">
Kuhlmann is certainly interested in the figure of the artist, however in
this case only in a secondary way. He is rather fascinated by the
question what presence and absence mean in a world that is increasingly
facilitated by media and technovisual means. Is Kuhlmann during his
performance present, absent, or, due to the overlarge presentation as an
image, even hyperreal, i.e. is more absent than others? </p></div><div class="">hope so see you there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">sincerely</div><div class="">florian kuhlmann</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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