I remember somebody wrote and performed a sort of pop-song about listserv flame wars - where the lyrics consisted of quotes from emails. Not sure who did that bit it would have been in the mid to late 1990's. Can anyone remember?
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Simon
On 6 Oct 2013, at 12:23, Annie Abrahams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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