Fudge the Facts

test image, broadcaster view (2008)

Postcards from my desktop

“I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply.”
Jacques Derrida, The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

Postcards from my desktop is a performance mixing RSS news feeds and simultaneous transcription. Sending snippets of communiqués across the ether, the work plays with interpretation, point of view and the imperfections of streaming technology.
Seeing the desktop as an exotic place where the world converges through RSS, the performance explores the limits of translation, immediacy and communication.

Access to the performances is open to all. You only have to connect to http://2008.panoplie.org/DoubleBind on Monday the 15th at 8.30 pm GMT+1 (Paris local time). Please follow this URL (http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_FR.aspx?y=2008&mo=12&d=15&h=20&mn=30) to find your local hour.

However, you will have to subscribe to panoplie to obtain a password in order to participate in the chat. (Top left of the screen)

*The “Double Bind” series of panoplie.org is initiated and curated by Annie Abrahams

More information about the Double Bind series: http://2008.panoplie.org/files/doublebind/PC_DB_PL_eng.pdf

Your words pour out. I’m not sure what you want to say, but I am listening anyway.

Recording to obliteration, his voice moves away, leaving only singing reverberation behind.

Agnes Richter’s jacket: hypertext before hypertext

Agnes Richter, a mental patient in Austrian asylum, embroidered her jacket with text. Through the script she transcribed herself into time, space and place. Her writing orients and disorients. Made in 1895, it is a standard issue uniform given to mental patients at the time. Richter has embroidered so intensively that reading impossible in certain areas of the garment. Words appear and disappear into seams and under layers of thread. There is no beginning or end, just spirals of intersecting fragmentary narratives. She is declarative: “I”, “mine”, “my jacket”, “my white stockings…., “I am in the Hubertusburg / ground floor”, “children”, “sister” and “cook”. In the inside she has written “1894 I am / I today woman”. She has also re-embroidered the laundry number printed on her jacket “ 583 Hubertusburg”, almost transforming something institutional and distant into something intimate, obsessive and possessive. It is a compelling piece of hypertext and untamed writing.