Le 6 janvier 2026, IMAGO | Cultures visuelles a le plaisir de recevoir les artistes Annie Abrahams et Alice Lenay pour une rencontre en forme de conférence performée, Nous faire réflechir à ce qui nous réflechit , déployée comme un laboratoire d’observation de nos modes contemporains de mise en relation et d’interaction. L’occasion d’explorer la difficulté à communiquer par l’entremise de nos appareils personnels (écrans, caméras, camécrans) dans une démarche d’art-recherche attentive aux formes de rencontres qu’autorisent ces dispositifs.
📍Institut national d’histoire de l’art 📍Auditorium Jacqueline Lichtenstein 📍6 janvier, 18:00–20:00
Annie Abrahams est artiste, performeuse et poète. Son travail interroge les possibilités et les limites de la communication, en particulier dans ses formes en réseau. Elle est connue pour son netart, ses expériences en écriture partagée et son rôle pionnier dans le champ de la performance en réseau.
Alice Lenay est artiste-chercheuse, maîtresse de conférence à l’Université Paris 8 et membre du laboratoire AIAC (Art des Images et Art Contemporain). Sa recherche prend la forme de performances et d’installations vidéo qui questionnent notre désir de rencontre.
After our last yearly reconnection in Distant Feeling(s) We (Annie & Associação Liminal) would like to share the Distant Feelings Goodbyes 2017 – 2024 video that Daniel had been preparing before passing.
It is a beautiful piece, which showcases the moment, after every gathering, when we say goodbye to each other. Everyone can watch and download the 34 min long video, and it will only be available online until the 1st of February 2026. We hope you will enjoy watching it.
The moment we close our eyes, we surrender to the collective, even as we remain apart. And when we open them 15 minutes later, the world feels subtly altered. It’s not just about closing the distance between us; it’s about creating a moment of genuine communion—a space where distance and disconnection give way to presence and unity, however fleeting.Daniel Pinheiro 2024. Thanks for everything Daniel, for being your lovely you!
In her article Body, Territory, and Networked Performance, Citlali Hernández Sánchez discusses two networked performance artworks: I only have my name (Annie Abrahams 1999) and Órbita #0,1 made by herself and Núria Nia in 2021. She uses a theoretical framework grounded in body studies and debates about spatiality and territoriality and developed an analytical model that conceives the internet as an assemblage, a continuum and a territory that generates complex experiences and appears as an uncertain territory and an uncertain technology, as well as an agent constitutive of bodies, subjectivities and the social.
In an alternate reality Daniel Pinheiro and I would now be organising the 13th yearly re-connection in Distant Feeling(s).
Screenshot DF#12 2024
Daniel sadly passed away last January.
This is an invitation for all past participants, but also his friends and colleagues to “quietly rebelling against the accelerated rush of (modern) life“. Daniel himself used these words to describe our last meeting in a text on Distant Feeling(s) #12 I liked very much. Lets remember Daniel, lets reconnect with his gentle spirit and ponder on our relation with the world and each other one more time in silent contemplation.
Distant Feeling(s) #13, Dec. 18, 6PM CET (5PM Portugal time). At that time you can enter a zoom videoconferencing room, will be welcomed and be invited to close your eyes and be together in silence. After 15 min at the sound of an alarm we will all open our eyes and then take time to say goodbye. (It would be nice if you could all have your video and sound on.) Please don’t be late. The gathering will be generously hosted by performingborders and is supported by Associação Liminal. There will be no recording.
We (Annie & Associação Liminal) would like to share the final Distant Feelings Goodbyes video that Daniel had been preparing before passing. It is a beautiful piece, which showcases the moment, after every gathering, when we say goodbye to each other. You can watch it and download it, and it will be available until the 1st of February 2026. Alongside the video, we would like to also share again the final text that Daniel wrote as a response to the last gathering he was a part of, and which we believe speaks so much to the present moment we’re all going through:
“‘Disconnection’ might be the strongest feeling nowadays. At least, for me, it is. In a world where constant digital interactions often mask a deeper sense of isolation, the experience of true connection feels increasingly rare. Distant Feeling(s) reflects on this pervasive disconnection—how distance shapes our ability to connect and how, in some ways, it seamlessly evades our attempts to bridge it. We are rarely, if ever, in a virtual environment with the explicit purpose of connecting with others while consciously reflecting on what that connection truly means. Most of our digital interactions prioritize immediacy, convenience, or productivity, leaving little room for mindful contemplation. With each reconnection, DF becomes a deliberate ritual to pause and explore what it means to connect with one another across physical and virtual distances. Intentionally simple, the invitation asks participants to silently tether themselves to this shared environment. The welcoming is a space to acknowledge the presences. The moment we close our eyes, we surrender to the collective, even as we remain apart. And when we open them 15 minutes later, the world feels subtly altered. It’s not just about closing the distance between us; it’s about creating a moment of genuine communion—a space where distance and disconnection give way to presence and unity, however fleeting. We open our eyes the moment of goodbyes is filled with a stranged feeling of acquaintance/familiarity. In an alternate reality we’d be just left there quietly rebelling against the accelerated rush of (modern) life. We’d wake again when the energy of the machines no longer existed. Perhaps… we’ll see again the next reconnecting ritual takes place… it’s not digital performance, it’s a consequence.
“Society does not need more work, more jobs, more competi-tion. On the contrary: we need a massive reduction in work-time, a prodigious liberation of life from the social factory, in order to reweave the fabric of the social relation. Ending the connection between work and revenue will enable a huge release of energy for social tasks that can no longer be conceived as a part of the economy and should once again become forms of life.” — Berardi, Franco “Bifo”. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Translated by Francesca Cadel and Giuseppina Mecchia, Semiotext(e), 2009.”
Almost and barely – performance night Thursday Dec. 4, 20h30 – 22h30. Studio Seine, Mathenesserdijk 323A, Rotterdam. Entrance free. In the frame of Almost and barely the exhibition of Frans van Lent.
Welkom op 21 november 2025, 16u30 – 20u. IDFX, Veilingkade 8, Breda. Inloop vanaf 16 u. Met: Duco – Vertolking van een tekst van Toon Tellegen. Ans Verdijk – performance Anders Verschuren – performance Annie Abrahams en Sergei Demin – Woord & Muziek Organisatie: marijke hooghwinkel Meer informatie: 1m2 Podium
De in Siberië geborenen in Nederland gevestigde kunstenaar Sergei Demin werkt met geluid en technologie. Hij brengt een zelfgemaakte draailier mee. Annie Abrahams, een nederlandse multimediakunstenaar, performer en dichter, zal waarschijnlijk dansen. het huilt, het slaapt, het stunkt, het draait en valt uit, uit, uit.
Sergei en Annie bij de Perifeer Deventer 2024 – photo Harco Rutgers.
projects, articles, notions, bibliography and an inventory
all the projects gathered within ourcollaborative.tools share the common goal of shaping digital frameworks to foster collaborations—with peers, experts from other disciplines, a classroom, local residents, non-human beings, and so on—on both small and large scales
Looking at Abrahams’ art, you sense an endless effort to make technology beneficial and meaningful – as well as her frustration with it – combined with a deep belief in human beings, despite their fallibility. Obsolescence, like the ageing process that her work also reflects so truthfully, is inevitable, and therefore not to be feared.
Bob Dickinson in Art and Obsolescence; a feature article in Art Monthly #490 October 2025 (paywall). Dickinson points out that artists’ long-term fascination with obsolescence has turned darker with the development of new technologies. In his article he mentions Being Human, Huis Clos / No Exit, Distant Feelings, BramTV and refers to Utterings:
Their sound is extremely subtle, barely noticeable at times, and at other times loud but rich and detailed too, each participant extremely aware of the others and the simultaneous, ever-evolving sound nature of the group.
Art Monthly is a contemporary art magazine based in London. Further artists treated in the article are Aisling Phelan, Moon Ribas, Yasuaki Onishi, Utterings and Benjamin Gaulon.
Utterings is a collective endeavour of Nerina Cocchi, Curt Cloninger, Constança Homem Carvalho and me. Distant Feelings was co authored with the late Daniel Pinheiro.
The article contains errors in dates and attributions. These are rectified in the November issue. I suspect the article is AI edited.
Happy to have three works in the Short-List recommendation of Artworks uncovered by LI-MA during their AMIGA NU research project. This list aims to shed light on artworks that would be beneficial to LI-MA’s collection if acquired, filling the gaps that currently exist.
Computer drawing rechaotisation with 14 possibilities, Preparation for the exhibition in Paraplufabriek Nijmegen, 1993.
“Abrahams’ use of the unique DOEK Amiga software and the Amiga in physical spaces makes her installation(s) a well-suited fit to the LI-MA collection.” Olivia Schoenfeld, Conservation Intern at LI-MA in Important Amiga Artists and Artworks Uncovered through AMIGA NU.
AMIGA NU (2024-25) was a deep dive into the production and practice of computer-based art in the Netherlands during the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the Amiga computer. Led by junior conservator Olivia Brum and supervised by director Gaby Wijers, the Cultuurfonds-supported project explored archives, identification, preservation, and presentation.
Short-List recommendation of Artworks from AMIGA-NU.
We might not reach the technical and artistic standards for a vocal ensemble, but we are one. One, based on differences, including environmental, focusing on listening and collectively composing improvisationally. (extract from Utterings website)
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