Hi All
This might be a bit of a side way, but I am reacting to Charlotte's remark
on using performance to give an impression of the lived experience ...
From 1997 to 1999 we worked with a group of artists on collectively
managed website called lieudit. (it was in French) It was an exciting and
very interesting experience, but we split up and took all the work offline
after an official art institution got interested in our work and we
couldn't agree on how to react to this (I have the habit of throwing away
old mails every now and then, so I can't give exact info, but as I remember
it, we didn't even really discuss anything, it was plain war)
In 2005 after I discovered that the wayback machine had kept quit some
files, and so I wrote to all members to tell them that in a certain way we
still existed and I also proposed to put online our own archives again.
A few months of even more traumatising email exchange followed and the only
way I could cope with that afterwards was to imagine I had participated in
the writing of a theater piece. To heal myself I decided to arrange the
email exchange as such and to plan a reading. Some participants refused to
give me the right to do so and finally I had to organize the reading behind
closed doors with about 30 invited guests. I still have the theater piece,
but the only thing public is a photo you can find here http://www.bram
.org/special/provitesti/indexang.htm
I do think staging interesting sections of mailinglist exchanges will
produce interesting insights in mailinglist dynamics, but as you all know,
it won't be what happened then ...
I am almost sure there are other examples of mailinglist enactments ...
Best
Annie Abrahams
What I mean by that - and it
> relates to Josephine Bosmaıs point about further researching the dynamic
> of online discourse - is that what we value and what informs our thinking
> and practice is often not traceable in the archive because itıs within the
> taking part, itıs in the moment. Itıs in the lived experience of
> interacting with certain people, on certain platforms in certain ways.
> This is something that needs to come out. We need to find a way to
> describe not just what happened and when, but also give some kind of
> flavour of the particular experience involved - but how do we describe
> that? Do theories of performance offer an excellent model to tease out
> these types of experience/engagement? <http://www.bram.org>
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