http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/ 2012-05-20T14:02:42+01:00 http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/ http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-05-02T15:38:05+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:the_miracle_methods_series?rev=1335969485&do=diff THE MIRACLE METHODS SERIES is a host for a constellation of micro 'episodes' to be broadcast during the b-side festival in Portland and Weymouth, July to September 2012. The programme comprises four recorded narratives - Distance Readers transmitted as film and text at regular intervals throughout the day. A 'distance reader' is a term used within the context of card-sharping and the act of marking cards to cheat. It is the defocusing of the eyes to spot fluid residue marks on an opponent’s dis… text/html 2012-05-02T15:35:37+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:annex_ii?rev=1335969337&do=diff Annex II (apophenia) is an audio work, presented on an i-pod with headphones, and originally streamed on the internet. An 'apophenic object' inhabits the i-pod screen that foregrounds a strobe light. The strobe is set at a speed that plays against the 'refresh-rate' of the eye. A series of voices resonate questions and answers, or, the same voice that ventriloquises itself. The script is taken from a dialogue engaged under hypnosis, and is in part a recall of photographs that had been developed … text/html 2012-02-21T17:08:40+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:axm?rev=1329844120&do=diff And now you are here again. No, this isn't the right ending. I'd like you to begin. It's the one who starts who wins. An unseen narrator recalls standing on the rooftop of a building, witness to the coming of an event of epic proportions. An object moves on the horizon. In another scene, a conversation by a photo-exposure unit is remembered. In yet another, a game, or many games, are played. Three winners. text/html 2012-02-21T17:03:19+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:an_unbound?rev=1329843799&do=diff An Unbound is a constellation of works that form a speculative response to the practice of Selenography (the study and mapping of the lunar landscape). Insomnias are night-vision videos, the seed, a passage from W.G Sebald's novel Austerlitz (2001), in which the insomnia is countered through astronomical study. The more to erase the more to appear are drawings on slates. The drawings evolve from early lunar crater diagrams, often those produced through naked-eye observation prior to the use of… text/html 2012-02-21T17:02:18+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:my_voice_belongs_to_you?rev=1329843738&do=diff My voice belongs to you draws on a series of reconfigured hypnosis scripts to proposes a silent, persistent voice. It utters itself into being, without a body. There is a suggestion of the experience of speech in trance. The work borrows from auto-hypnosis models, in which a text may be recorded and rehearsed at home. text/html 2012-02-21T17:01:05+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:becoming_the_blind_spot?rev=1329843665&do=diff Becoming the blind spot is a performance in which a figure presents a television test-card animated on an ipod screen to become a spot on the retina. There is a double-broadcast. The first, listened to by the performer through earpieces. The second, the translation into a series of spoken questions, the voice acts as a speaker for the ipod and is distorted through a small speaker attached to the throat. It considers the trance state as blind spot and site of action. The test-card becomes a sort… text/html 2012-02-21T17:00:14+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:fig_a?rev=1329843614&do=diff ............... Narrator: The scenario - in front of you, a bank of lights, a camera or two and a microphone. Slightly to one side, off-camera, you can just make out a figure. CUE SLIDE 2 (THE HYPNOTIST) For our purposes, they are The Interviewer and Facilitator. Tonight, let's call them Fig A. text/html 2012-02-21T16:59:50+01:00 frances http://www.abyme.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/chapters:minor_games?rev=1329843590&do=diff Minor Futures and Relay Activities is a project in development following a residency with AIR, Byam Shaw School of Art in Archway, North London, early 2011.