MERCY Film Still (Glowing Poppy) - Vivienne Griffin
MERCY Film Still (Glowing Poppy) - Vivienne Griffin
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Mercy is a video work in two parts. The first section presents a text based allegory of a collective unconscious nervous breakdown. This is accompanied by a melancholic folk song that is turned to noise as it’s processed by a generative algorithm. Using a speed reading technique, this first section of Mercy consists of multiple voices that communicate on disparate subjects.
Made with Turing Institute researcher, lawyer, and court advocate Cari Hyde-Vaamonde, the second section of the video uses visual metaphors to describe complex systems in Cari’s research, and explains complex algorithmic systems to non-computer literate users within the legal system. Exploring binaries of on/off, yes/no, 0/1, Mercy searches for emancipatory prompts within technology, machine, and human interaction.
The Dublin-born, London and New York based artist makes sculptures, drawings and audio works in their antidisciplinary practice. The voice, vernacular language and noise are used in text works (2D and aural) and free poetic form is applied to assemblages of objects (found and made). Their practice focuses on the problematics of hyper-individualism in new body of work and the uses of sound (and/or silence), dance music, meditation, singing and podcasts as means of transcendence of the self. Their work seeks emancipation from the apathy of banality: entangled with everyday life it implicates the ordinary as rare. Griffin’s practice inc. electronic noise, one-to-one performances, objects (found and made) and drawings.
