04 12 2011 18:30 Brussels and on-line (www.vj13.constantvzw.org/live/)

Angry Women Take 3 & 4
during Prototypes for · pour · voor transmission festival Verbindingen/Jonctions 13

After two performances where 24 women of different nationalities, using their mother tongue, said their anger in front of their webcams at home until there was none left, the next step in the Angry Women research project is a series of two sessions of exactly 12 minutes. The limited time, the experience of the first performance and the fact that this time the ladies will use a single language per performance (One performance will be in English, the other in French), will make this a completely different experiment concerned female anger and networked collaboration and group dynamics.

Capture d'écran de Take 3 en français. vimeo.com/33492100
Screencapture of Take 4 in English. vimeo.com/33498082

"I decided to put the videos of Take 3 and 4 online as they are. I really didn't make any sense to cut into them, that would take away a very essential part: the process of dealing with this situation of No Exit, of voluntarily being trapped in a grid with 7 other ladies that one hardly knew. In the beginning I had difficulties accepting these videoarchives because I saw how much they depended on our hazardous trying to interact, to be present in this universe of alone togetherness. Besides I didn't like my own presence. As in other webperformances I felt trapped and revealed myself not as I would have liked to be revealed. But now I begin to accept this (again) as its qualities and I do like the very different dynamics in the two versions. These performances raise many questions as for instance possible language and cultural differences, that I would like to explore further but for now I would first like to organise an Angry Men performance and I will try to improve the performance interface." Annie Abrahams email 3/01/2012.

"...Quant à la colère, notre contenance m'étonne toujours....Quant au choeur cependant: un million de choses à dire...
d'affection, je crois avoir préféré la première version, celle avec trop de gens, celle avec les délais, les décalages, les difficultés d'orientations, les erreurs d'identification de voix, de parole, de direction, celle des échappées, et de l'orchestration fragile, fuyante, précaire... mais qui en arrive tout de même à ce silence final...qui impressionne. Sa durée aussi, qui laisse le temps aux fluctuations des états, le temps de dire ce qu'on sait déjà, le temps d'essayer de l'action, le temps de regarder les autres, le temps de se taire, le temps de tenter de s'arrimer aux autres, le temps de tenter d'influencer les autres, le temps le temps d'oser des paroles nouvelles inconnues de soi même, on ose cachée par le délai, on ose pour voir s'il y aura relais, on ose parce qu'on a le temps de devenir téméraire et de se dire, ah ouais? what if? et que c'est un peu ça aussi l'énergie de la colère: "ah ouais? what if?"
la grande grille, la possibilité de placer des regards, vers les autres et droit devant, vers ces autres qu'on ne voit pas. Le temps aussi de bien vivre le fait qu'on n'est pas ensemble pour vrai, enfin oui, mais non, et de sentir qu'il y a fiction possible... de découvrir qu'on peut faire semblant en se regardant les genoux de regarder sa voisine du dessous. et ça dit que la colère peut être fourbe.
mais ça dit aussi, qu'en colère, dessous, on peut aussi bien rigoler.
et puis ça laisse le temps de s'imaginer, ceux et celles qui verront et de les inclure..." Extrait d'un émail de Julie Châteauvert 13/01/2012.

"...I enjoyed the multiple frames and all the heterogenous ways of how to deal with this situation. What I like a lot is the contingency that the performance implies and exposes. It is obvious that it is not really clear or determined for us what is going to happen. That makes it very interesting to watch. I love the silent presence of the woman in pink in the middle of the picture in take 1. I also love the big scream that you did together and the fists and the silence afterwards. I realised that understanding the language is somehow important because before we tried I thought that it´s nice that noone is really understandable and that it´s more about creating a kind of sound-carpet. But for me it was quite hard now to watch the take in French in which I almost couldn´t understand anything. So, I realised, that for me (from a spectator´s view) the content of what we are saying is not irrelevant and that understanding some bits and fragments of our talking is important..." Extract from an email by Martina Ruhsam 14/01/2012.

A pdf (8 pages) with more reactions & analyses (acting versus performing / on gender / conducting and directing / pro and cons of the mirror situation / performance strategies / scripting and improvising / recording or not recording) by Annie Abrahams, Ienke Kastelein, Julie Châteauvert, Martina Ruhsam, Helen Varley Jamieson, Antye Greie, Paula Roush and Lucille Calmel.

If the video doesn't show up, please watch Testing streaming interface capacity on vimeo.These are the first 10 minutes of our second test that evening. The server seems to start crashing when handling around 140 to 150 streams.18 05 2011.

12 ladies preparing 27 last seconds of the technical test of 07 06 2011. It works! 12 ladies streaming = 156 streams.

Le cri de la victoire. 1.06 min of joy after more than 40 min on Anger in the Angry Women Take1 performance. 7 07 2011
The only public were the participants of the Open Atelier#16 at Labomedia, Orléans, where I did a residency in the frame of Géographies Variables.

More photos and a short video on the website of the Open Atelier session #16.

Waiting 15 min of waiting, adjusting before the 27 min on Anger in the Angry Women Take2 performance. 7 09 2011. Video included in Super Art Modern Museum Dec. 2011.

"The impact is visceral ... The combination of iron control, planning, foresight (the grid, the protocols) with the letting go and trust evident elsewhere – the phased lengths, the blank space for the person who didn’t turn up, the open performative structure – makes for something of great richness."
Michael Szpakowski on Angry Women in his article Annie Abrahams - Training for a Better World dvblog.org/?p=9025 (English & français)
Two extracts of the videos presented in the show :
Angry Women (Left Panel/Clip) (2011, 188MB, 6:23 min)
www.dvblog.org/movies/11_2011/aa/aa1.mov
Angry Women (Right Panel/Clip) (2011, 142MB, 6:33 min)
www.dvblog.org/movies/11_2011/aa/aa2.mov

Annie ABRAHAMS - Training for a better world -... par CRAC-LR vidéo où je parle beaucoup de Angry Women.

ANGRY WOMEN

Albertine Meunier albertinemeunier.net
Anne Laforet sakasama.net
Annie Abrahams bram.org
Antye Greie aka AGF poemproducer.com
Bérénice Belpaire berenice.lautre.net
Caroline Delieutraz cdelieutraz.free.fr
Cécile Babiole babiole.net
Hedva Eltanani vs4rslab.wordpress.com
Helen Varley Jamieson creative-catalyst.com
Hortense Gauthier hp-process.com
Ienke Kastelein ienkekastelein.nl
Inès Kchaou
Julie Chateauvert kassl.wordpress.com
KaReN KRN.incident.net
Laurence Moletta nioskarma.com
Laurie Bellanca kompost.me
Lizvlx ubermorgen.com
Lucille Calmel any way you can find some of mine on line
Martina Ruhsam turia.at/titel/ruhsam.html
Nathalie Magnan cyberfeminisme.org
Olga P Massanet olgapanades.com/
Olga Kisseleva kisseleva.org
Pascale Barret pascalebarret.com
Paula Roush msdm.org.uk
Sabine Revillet
Sandra Bébié Valérian art-act.fr
Simona Polvani twitter.com/simonapolvani
Suzon Fuks suzonfuks.net
Ursula Endlicher ursenal.net

This group is constituted of ladies I met sometime, somewhere via the internet and whose work is related to computer, performance, writing and or contemporay art practice.

Développement interface Estelle Senay - Théâtre Paris Villette

Contact : Annie Abrahams

Performance Series and video installation.

Take 1 and 2. From home, in front of their webcams, 12 women say their anger until there will be no more anger left. Their images are combined into a single video projection. The performance will last as long as there will be anger or thoughts about anger left in one of the women.
They will all start together using their mothertongue at t=0. They will stop, listen to others, resume ... The performance duration is undetermined - the performance will last till there will be one minute of total silence.

The resulting videos will be presented in two video projection on two perpendicular walls in Training for a Better World Annie Abrahams's solo exhibition at the CRAC Sète (28/10/2011 - 01/01/2012).
Take 1 and 2 will also be presented in Being Social, the opening exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park in North London.

The project is also about groupdynamics, remote communication and collaboration.

Similar projects :
Angry Women, Edited by Andrea Juno and V. Vale.
D/t\P disturb.the.peace[angry women] project by Jess Loseby

An Angry Man version will follow Spring 2012. Please mail me if you are interested in participating.

Angry Women est soutenu par la Région Languedoc Roussillon