[spectre] Collective writing project : Madness / Folie | Video : A fragmented relation

[aabrahams]

Madness / Folie
mad, nuts (slang) cracked (slang) mental (slang) barking (slang)
crackers Brit. (slang) mentally ill, crazed, demented, cuckoo
(informal) deranged, loopy (informal) round the bend (informal)
barking mad (slang) out of your mind, gaga (informal) screwy
(informal) doolally (slang) off your trolley (slang) round the twist
(informal) of unsound mind, not right in the head, non compos mentis
(Latin) off your rocker (slang) not the full shilling (informal)
mentally disordered, off the air Austral. (slang) porangi N.Z.

http://bram.org/folie/
Does madness exist in the virtual world? Please participate.
http://bram.org/folie/

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A fragmented relation Original French title :  Relation entrecoupée
2009, 15 min.  Subtitles in English.

A webcam mediated conversation treated to reveal the significance of
void in  regular human intercourse.

http://vimeo.com/4812716

Images and sound: Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech.
Editing : Annie Abrahams, residency Artelinea - Art Contemporain, Congénies.

Two images, two voices answer each other, search for the other, get lost.
During machine mediated communication, is the other most present when
nothing happens, when at least I think of him, her, this other?

This video is a special version for the internet, an adaption of the
two channel installation version showed for the first time at PPCM in
Nîmes from 6 to 15 Mars 2009. This installation was also presented
the 10th of Mars 2009 at ERBA, Valence during a workshop with the
students.
Source images and sound : A webcam presentation 6 Mars 2008 by Annie
Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech concerning the video "One a puppet of
the other" in the Contemporary Art Centre, CAC, Le Quartier in
Quimper, France.