#internet
held together, torn apart _
FOR THE GLORY OF BALKAN INTERNET SPEED
When it’s your tradition to deliver death to your enemies with a lightning speed, then internet is nothing.
Performing Absence… to master the medium?!
Merci pour cela Annie, pour ce miroir que tu nous tends vers nous-même, en plus de nous ouvrir des fenêtres et des portes vers les autres. - Agathe Herry (online participant of Distant Feeling(s) #6) - more reactions here
In Distant Feeling(s) #6 once again a space was activated - a space which opens from different locations into an online communicative interface where the participants rest for 15 minutes with eyes closed aware of their individual presence aligned (in time) with others.
This iteration of Distant Feeling(s) is mounted with the recording of a remix of comments - a text containing the key elements which previous participants made note of after entering this space.
As a moment of suspension the project takes the form of a possible meditative process on our situation while being constantly overflowed with electronic acceleration; in this specific case it was performed to a live audience in Malta as part of Video Vortex #12 on September 26 (2019), the event itself being one concerned with the aesthetics and politics of online video.
A telematic embrace where nothing seems to happen and where the lack of action is precisely its potential as an agency tool towards fighting alienation and perform a possible form of absentia within the network, while the network is in function. So highlighting presence and togetherness as main aspects of social interaction only possible when refraining the imposed ubiquitous spatio-temporal unity that is imposed by technology.
Distant Feeling(s) is a project by Annie Abrahams ( @e-stranger), Lisa Parra ( @lisaparra) and Daniel Pinheiro ( @daniel-pinheiro)
LAND PROJECT: Placelessness
Lisa Parra & Daniel Pinheiro
with: Hannah Bastos & António Matos
collaboration with: Annie Abrahams & Mateo Galindo Torres
October, 2015 CAAA - Centre for Art and Architecture Affairs, in Guimarães (Portugal)
In the darkness,
We move forward,
in an unknown territory,
a territory devoid of references,
without meaning.
As we move ahead,
as we go through the surface,
through the edges,
as we follow the contours,
we intersect shapes and elements.
In that space,
it becomes…
impossible to perceive what we intersect.
We resort to memory,
to reproduce what we think
we are in fact intersecting.
We resort to memory,
of things we already know,
so we can name the things,
and make that space,
somehow recognizable.
In that space,
where distance is impossible to measure,
we try…
that opacity becomes lesser…
where are you when you’re not here?!
As a fair warning to everyone listening to this song
I advise you to not hide your feelings
Don’t pretend to be okay when you’re not okay
Don’t pretend to be happy when you’re sad
It’ll only lead to your misery
Dont you fucking hate it when you hear my name?
I feel the same and when you hear this you gon feel the pain
And all these niggas that you fuckin with get away
But girl I know you think about it almost everyday
And I’ll be honest I be jealous of these niggas, true
How you feelin with these niggas that you talk to?
Captivated by your mind and your walk too
Can’t replace you with these bitches that I talk to
They say “lust is love” we had trust, what’s good?
I should’ve held you close
Should’ve kept you warm
And when the rain is fallin, wonder who you call
Dont pray to god, you rather drive your car
Dont talk
Pretend it don’t hurt
Repent, I won’t stomp, my feet in a rage
My nigga I’m no chump
This issue is I crave you, hate you
You think I rip the wings off of my fuckin angel
It don’t hurt, damn
I’ll forever be the, i’ll forever be the elephant in the room
I’ll always love you, i’m sorry
“I’ll be home soon and I’ll have an explanation for you all, don’t believe the rumors.”
-xxx
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