From Estranger to E-Stranger

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This book is a compilation of the 77 posts Annie Abrahams wrote for her (e)stranger website between April and August 2014. Some of these are personal, others go back to literature, art works or are more theoretical. Abrahams plays creatively with ideas of what it means to be an (e)stranger. She researches its possibilities, beyond it’s handicapping proprieties and touches upon themes as different as the use of Latin in church to questions about the relation between code and emotions. PastMono, research, collage, bricolage, assemblage. An (e)stranger is invisible, exotic, unidentifiable, rude, hybrid, blurry, deformed, subversive, incomprehensible, complex, pliable, lonely, abject, harder and more fragile at the same time …they are more resilient, more inventive, know how to protect themselves, are good observers, look around a lot, see and ask questions about things that seem to be self-evident …