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Some fragments from the Unusual Garments Series: Stick oval...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:56:00 -0400

Some fragments from the Unusual Garments Series: Stick

oval bijou pendant, 2,5 x 2 cm, bijou necklace

description of the work and its concept:

Some fragments from the Unusual Garments Series: Stick

The changes of meaning that things, expressions or symbols undergo in culture in time are simply fascinating. These changes can be accelerated by new contexts. Also new contexts in itself means shifted or utterly new meaning for the original thing. Juxtaposition is always healthy for any standard or beaten track. As an Internet artist, I often work with appropriation and collective authorship – or, more precisely, “creative chains of work” – one person (or machine or medium) after another pushing the work by little pieces of their intervention further and further to its final shape. The unpredictable result makes the art more honest and closer to the culture.

I like to take on-line iconography and Internet art projects by other people and bring them to real life (by process called reverse remediation) by working on ongoing fashion collection Unusual Garments Series, consisting on designed clothing and garments of limited – always one peace only – collection of wearable artworks, that are distributed among people in my environment to be worn, worn down, aged and collected back for exhibitions. By this process, the work gain specific history, personality, touch of time (another piece of chain) and is ready to be conserved not only as artwork, but also as cultural artifact.

The whole Internet into a pendant.

The picture in the pendant depicts an art piece – stick made by Czech artist Martin Kohout. Kohout’s works are already multilayered, however in publication Linear Manual (TLTR Preß & PAF, 2012), that could be itself perceived as an analogy of the very Internet structure[1] and reveals around the theme of sticks – and this particular work especially – through semantic transfer (like the one mentioned above) the stick became a symbol of the Internet. Very heavy symbol. Since I’ve read the book, this particular piece of artwork – Kohout’s stick – represent whole Internet for me. Internet, the only common belief we all share and pray to every day, had suddenly its religious Icon. I’ve decided to use those religious feelings and enable also others to have a religious Icon of the Internet, as they used to have religious pendants with saints when they were Christians (in Czech Republic, majority of people are atheists nowadays and it is not common to wear religious pieces of jewelry any more).

To make it more spiritual and closer to the Overmind, it had to be collective (creative-chain) work. So I bought a material for a pendant, found on Internet gallery of photographs from Martin Kohout’s exhibition in Prague also containing the Stick class A series, that took somebody during the opening and put them online, and sent my friend who makes pendants as a hobby the link to this photo gallery and the material for a pendant. With no further information, she had to choose whatever piece she liked for the pendant and sent it back to me.

Since that I am putting the work into various contexts to observe the interplay with the environment, experimenting with its highly religious meaning. Unsurprisingly, as with other religious Icons, the meaning is firmly fixed forever.

[1] See MEIXNEROVÁ, Marie. „If you hate Internet, don’t even try to like this book. JUNK JET N°6 & Linear Manual review.“ [on-line] Movie magazine 25fps, www.25fps.cz. 14. 03. 2013. http://25fps.cz/2013/junk-jet-n6-linear-manual/.

Result of one of my past curatorial activities /Dec 2012 -...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:46:16 -0400

Result of one of my past curatorial activities

/Dec 2012 - curating programme of one of the festival sections (NetArt) @11th Festival of Film Animation, Olomouc, Czech Republic (www.pifpaf.cz) + exhibition in nearby gallery and a group show “Home Page Installation” at festival premises, both as part of the festival programme.

vjtexa:

PAF: NET ART

Přehlídka Animovaného Filmu Olomouc, 2012

Možná je tma, ale já ji nevidím - přehlídka současného českého netartu

poslechněte si čajovnu / interview

podívejte se na prezentaci The Rodina pro PAF

Grafické studio The Rodina sází (vejce) na indukční vařič. Pochopili, že popularita kuchyňských pořadů je využitelná i v hipster světě a z prezentace vlastní tvorby je potřeba udělat pořádně osolenou show. Zatímco Vít Musil vaří a rozdává občerstvení sálu, představuje Tereza Rullerová (známá jako Vjka Texa) Ventolinovo nové album Totem, kterému studio vytvořilo vizuální podobu. Také přináší duchovní důkaz toho, že se The Rodinanevzdaluje ani internetovému prostředí. Přes všechna grafická podloží funguje totiž také jako ekumenické hnutí šířící víru v Boha internetu, čemuž nezbývá než dát “like” a zbavit se tak pár hříchů.

kurátorka: Marie Meixnerová

text: Štěpánka Ištvánková, foto: J. Volejník

UPCOMING: FAMU Prague, 30. 4. 2013

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:23:00 -0400

Tuesday April 30th - 5:20pm

Talk at FILM AND TV SCHOOL OF ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE, Czech Republic

www.famu.cz

spreadshirt

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:37:55 -0400

spreadshirt:

Designed edition of T-Shirts by (c) merry

Perfectly found #1 and #2 guerilla curating by (c) merry

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:13:08 -0400

Perfectly found #1 and #2

guerilla curating by (c) merry

Stalker (Brno, Czech Republic) photoset story here on facebook

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:49:39 -0400

Stalker (Brno, Czech Republic)

photoset story here on facebook

Yyyou IL l*ve (gestures for Lorna Mills and Anthony...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:03:08 -0400

Yyyou IL l*ve (gestures for Lorna Mills and Anthony Antonellis)
Gridr by (c) merry, Wednesday 2013

New video by (c) merry just uploaded on YT working title: Jiří...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:30:34 -0400

New video by (c) merry just uploaded on YT

working title: Jiří Menzel aka TELEFILIA by (c) merry

few shots from 2nd Audio Visual Conference, Art Centre of...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:28:02 -0500

few shots from 2nd Audio Visual Conference, Art Centre of Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

March the 7th, 2013

Featuring also some projects by (c) merry! I Like it, Tweet It,...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 07:51:41 -0500

Featuring also some projects by (c) merry!

I Like it, Tweet It, guerilla curating on Netarty fb page and my 2013 Welcome Future facebook performance on my fb page. LOL!

netarty:

Facebook: sociální síť jako prostor pro umění

(Facebook as artspace)

Yesterday released Czech article dealing with facebook as space for art, featuring dozens of influential artists. There is a certain promise that it will be released also in English (in time), so far, we have to satisfy with its google translation

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&u=http%3A%2F%2F25fps.cz%2F2013%2Ffacebook-jako-prostor-pro-umeni%2F

Advice #1: How to ensnare a man (installation in gallery...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:28:49 -0500

manipulated screenshot image from on-line video (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=564034500287526)

screenshot image from on-line video (c) GEF

screenshot image from on-line video (c) GEF

the opening, (c) GEF

Advice #1: How to ensnare a man (installation in gallery space)

1. rada jak polapit muže
(c) merry 1994/2012/2013

on view for the 1st time at

Podhoubí » Fillovka Open, Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic (http://www.gef.cz/)

7. 2. – 27. 2. 2013

Opening: Wednesday 6. 2. 2013, 6pm

Advice #1: How to ensnare a man : Installation in private...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:14:27 -0500

Advice #1: How to ensnare a man : Installation in private space

1. rada jak polapit muže (Advice #1: How to ensnare a man)
(c) merry 1994/2012/2013
electric typewriter, paper & 1990’s magazines for Girls, glass
original language Czech

Installation in private space. In gallery space, you can see it till 27th of February 2013 in Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/how-to-ensnare-a-man

The Wall, (c) merry 2013 (pencil, Berlin...

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:46:31 -0500

The Wall, (c) merry 2013

(pencil, Berlin Wall)

conceptualizing history

Some shots from guerilla curating

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:26:00 -0500

Yoshi Sodeoka: Covert Hypnosis in Politics, Video 2008 vimeo like screenshot + Yoshi Sodeoka: Thresh 0.746* soundcloud soundwave screenshot + Opera Browser on Netarty facebook page

analog/digital ok, this is just a little stealing from kim laughton and mary meixner facebook profiles, couldnt resist

film DER LAUF DER DINGE (The Way Things Go) by Fischli & Weiss, 1987 (29 min 40 sec) facebook status mash-up curated on my google chat status since 18. Jan 2013

Some shots from guerilla curating

guerilla curating by (c) merry

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:33:04 -0500

Since my new year’s resolution was to create a new hobby of mine: guerilla curating, I started first with the Netarty facebook page.

For now on (and even retrospectively applied to works exhibited before), the Wall Cover and avatar of the page will be subject of mine guerilla curating

for more (and the list of artists exhibited so far) see: http://www.facebook.com/netarty/info

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Guerilla curating is however not bound only to on-line space. Originally, the idea was created for physical space.

During the next year, I’ll guerrila curate everything. Your desktop. Your toilet paper. Your gallery. Your Bus ticket. Even your dreams.

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Guerilla curating is using pictures without permission. Guerilla curating is mashing the works together. Guerilla curating is showing works of other artists I like the way I like. Guerilla curating just crossed my mind.

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(c) merry

Just started new project in which you are encouraged to...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:13:00 -0500

Just started new project in which you are encouraged to participate.

Out Of Time by (c) merry, 2013

YouTube account, following channels that are no longer active or never even were.

https://www.youtube.com/user/OutOfTime2013

user name: OutOfTime2013

passworld: too-late

mainstream collection of modified screenshot images (c) merry,...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:31:00 -0500

mainstream

collection of modified screenshot images

netsmiley: http://bestwallcover.tumblr.com/

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:39:01 -0500

netsmiley:

http://bestwallcover.tumblr.com/

2013 Welcome Future

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:11:00 -0500

For those who stay at home: Abstinent performance 2013 Welcome Future @ my facebook page Merry - crazy stuff created by (c) merry, 31st of December 2012 and 1st of January 2013.

From the series of undeclared performances. Net, 29. 12....

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:55:00 -0500

From the series of undeclared performances.

Net, 29. 12. 2012

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During a Micol Hebron’s residency on Chloë Flores facebook page I participated on reading from “A Vindication of the rights of Woman”, 1792 text by Mary Wollstonecraft.
http://www.facebook.com/itsallbeendonebefore

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The Vindications, (c) merry, 2012

YOUTUBE PLAYLIST Participation on Micol Hebron’s Chloë Flores ★ HERE

Chloë Flores is an art space and curatorial project that utilizes the user-based, social interface of Facebook as a public space for exhibition and representation—of oneself, of others, and of art. Similar to exhibitions or artworks that reference the site in which they appear, this exhibition’s framework—Facebook’s interface and social system—provides this project with its overarching context. Being inscribed less by curatorial framing than by the site’s framework, Chloë Flores effectively explores how an existing public platform embedded with it’s own system for individual representation and identity can be used as an art space and for cultural production. Chloë Flores has not been conceived as a place for the display, presentation and exhibition of artworks per se, but rather as an alternative public space for cultural production, critical gestures, artistic practice, discourse, and exchange; and by extension of being situated within the structure of Facebook, Chloë Flores provides a place for the exploration of collective authorship in place-making, the notions surrounding identity as it relates to social networking, and the performative gestures engendered in self-representation. The use of the space as such intends to posit: What’s at stake when the conduit for artistic practice is one that facilitates engagement that is disembodied, indirect and mediated? What is the primary experience of such interaction? And, what is lost and/or gained when it is transmitted through the mediated landscapes of social networking? What is the cultural and global value of artistic practice in such a space? How is the audience and social imagination for art space as such constructed? How does art and artistic practice function within place-less public spaces and how does that affect the social construction of identity for the user? How can art on the Internet be expanded to extend beyond mediums specific to the Internet and incorporate other media or practices?

Each month an artist will take up residency on my Facebook page. For more information, please email me.

Current Artist in Residence (December 2012): Micol Hebron

(Chloë Floers)