Print Fiction
Wonderful on-line exhibition started today!
untitled AFO intervention (from the ‘Try to do this with your pdf’ series)
documentation of an installation/intervention I did in April (several little works scattered throughout printed media) finally on
☞ http://issuu.com/c.merry/docs/afo
17. 4. – 22. 4. 2012, Olomouc, Czech Republic
AFO – International Festival of Science Documentary Films
(every asshole can publish their lame pdf files these days, don’t they?)
The seven versions of death
one of my google poetry pieces just found on my harddisc and publisehd on issuu.com
MERRY - crazy stuff created by (c) merry
I have a facebook page. Actually, it is my official page.
“My page” by (c) merry
.::. tell me about conceptual art
Pár fotek ze zbytku PAFu | Few pictures from last of the PAF
(note: the project was realized in Czech language using the Czech mutation of facebook, so I provide its English translation in the following description; the screen shots are in Czech though)
12th of December 2011, I uploaded on official facebook page of Czech film magazine 25fps (www.25fps.cz) a set of pictures taken at Festival of Film Animation (PAF), that took place in Olomouc, Czech republic, between December the 8th and 11th, 2011.
The album was called Few pictures from last of the PAF. Some of them normal, some of them… merry.
In the hectic internet era where nothing is stable and everything is happening right now, there is too much information/pictures and if you can’t catch it now, it will be probably lost in the heaps of new pictures coming every minute. In the time when official PAF page was constantly and successively uploading new pictures from the festival to their page, I uploaded whole album and started deleting pictures from it. There was 38 pictures in total, and I did delete one every day until it totally disappeared. I did announce the fact that “25fps deleted another picture from their album ‘Few pictures from last of the PAF’” here and there, in contrast to the prefabricated messages by facebook appearing every time when ‘PAF added another picture to their album…’
The deletion took place at random, there was no system (no significance how many people liked the pictures or their chronological order etc.). Every time a picture disappeared, the set as a whole slightly changed its meaning and fluency, giving different testimony about the event. The informations were disappearing, leaving more space for viewer’s imagination.
The whole action started after the end of the festival (12th of December) by uploading the album and sharing it on 25fps and PAF walls. 14th of December, following description was added to the album:
Description: 14. 12. EVERY DAY THERE WILL BE ONE PICTURE DELETED - UNTIL THE WHOLE ALBUM DISAPPEARS (originally 38 photographs)
18th of January at 7.30 the whole action was completed, leaving an empty album.
The empty album was shared for the last time and left on the 25fps page as a memento for those, who failed to keep pace with quantum of information emerging on facebook
description of project first published 19th of April 2012 on crazymerry.tumblr.com
Zabriskie Point (end)
Zabriskie Point (black)
Zabriskie Point (blue)
Wo ist Verca?
*MERRY PLACE*
Created *MERRY PLACE* - a 6th of April, 2012 mirror blog to MERRY PLACE
by (c) merry
The images of the past tend to lose their meaning, through repetition, of being seen and reviewed. It’s like when you receive a bouquet of roses. the first time, you are enchanted. But if you receive some every day, you no longer react, you just say “put them there. “You do not take care of them. The work of a artist is to breathe new life into the images. I’m like Dr. Frankenstein, I gives back life to lifeless images. I started this work last year. I had already been an appropriation of photographs, the approach is the same for painting. What I want is to slow the viewer, that he takes time to look, instead of jumping to conclusions. I like to create in him a confusion. The role of an artist is to make the viewer clever. And for that, you have to play around with him.
—John Baldessari, 2012 (via collectheworld)
