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MERZBANK Artists' online works exploring Kurt Schwitters' creative legacy * About MerzBank Go to...About MerzBank Choose Merzbank Account * All * Alec Finlay * Andrea Luka Zimmerman * Forsyth & Pollard * George Barber * Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson * MERZBANK > Explore the MerzBank by clicking the various “refresh” and “home” buttons > or dip into the “Choose MerzBank Account” to see what deposits the artists > have made. MerzBank Shortlink * LIFE FELL TO EARTH George Barber 2014 George Barber Shortlink * LONDONION ‘London Onion’, Kurt Schwitters’ love-letter to the city that became his home, has been turned by artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard into ‘Londonion’, a pocket-sized mega-mix of the original, updated for the present as a digital app. Centred on a performance of the poem by comic Stewart Lee, the piece combines verbal and sonic pyrotechnics with the potential for audience interaction that Schwitters encouraged in his art. The app responds to the random sounds and fluctuating noise-levels of the immediate surroundings and is supplemented by short introductory videos about the project that will be disseminated on YouTube and elsewhere, introducing ‘Londonion’ to a wider online community. Forsyth & Pollard Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM S1 – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN, BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CITIZEN OR BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZEN IF I AM A STATELESS PERSON BORN BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1983? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM S3 – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN OR BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CITIZEN IF I AM A STATELESS PERSON BORN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES ON OR AFTER 1 JANUARY 1983? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink MERZSCHMERZ: ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A TINY MOUSE, (1941- 1946) Andrea Luka Zimmerman 2014 Andrea Luka Zimmerman Shortlink ‘VOCABLE-ORCHARD (HRV)’ BY ALEC FINLAY Alec Finlay’s contribution to ‘MerzBank’ is an echo of Schwitters’ famous ‘sneeze poem’ of 1937, which he ‘scored’ to replicate the convulsive sound and shape of a human sneeze. Finlay compares the sudden burst of a single a-c-h-o-o to the flowering of the human rhinovirus (aka the common cold) as it develops and proliferates over time. Streaming continuously on the homepage of the ‘MerzBank’ site, a digital animation, made up of micro-particles of text, captures the beauty of the virus in full flow, while snapshot samples of it will be transmitted through social media, mimicking how the common cold insinuates itself within the general population. Alec Finlay Shortlink Continue Reading → Enlarge Share Save FORM MN3 – HOW DO I REGISTER A CHILD AGED UNDER 18 AS A BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZEN? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM EM – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY (HONG KONG) ACT 1997? Download this artwork as a pdf Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM RS1 – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN IF I HAVE PREVIOUSLY GIVEN UP MY CITIZENSHIP? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORSYTH & POLLARD ON RESONANCE FM Continue Reading → Forsyth & Pollard Shortlink FROM AN Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson’s ‘From An’ is a series of downloadable PDFs that playfully re-imagines the 15 different application forms for residency and citizenship available from the UK Border Agency website. The 15 individual works will be released at weekly intervals on the ‘MerzBank’ site. Reflecting on Schwitters’ skills as graphic designer and his own typographic experiments for public institutions in pre-war Germany, the pieces also allude to the themes of non-conformity, exile, migration and refugee status that dogged Schwitters’ later life. Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink VOCABLE-ORCHARD (HRV) Alec Finlay Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM S2 – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN, BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CITIZEN, BRITISH OVERSEAS CITIZEN OR BRITISH SUBJECT IF I AM A STATELESS PERSON BORN OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM OR BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES ON OR AFTER 1 JANUARY 1983? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink MERZSCHMERZ: THE STORY OF THE GOOD MAN, (1933) Andrea Luka Zimmerman 2014 Andrea Luka Zimmerman Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM AN – HOW DO I APPLY FOR NATURALISATION AS A BRITISH CITIZEN? Download this artwork as a pdf Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM MN4 – HOW DO I REGISTER A CHILD AGED UNDER 18 AS A BRITISH SUBJECT? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink THE MAKING OF LONDONION Forsyth & Pollard Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM RS2 – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CITIZEN IF I HAVE PREVIOUSLY GIVEN UP MY CITIZENSHIP? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM T – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN IF I WAS BORN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ON OR AFTER 1 JANUARY 1983 AND LIVED THERE UP TO THE AGE OF 10? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM (B)OTA – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN IF I AM A BRITISH NATIONAL? Download this artwork as a pdf Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM MN1 – HOW DO I REGISTER A CHILD AGED UNDER 18 AS A BRITISH CITIZEN? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM MN2 – HOW DO I REGISTER A CHILD AGED UNDER 18 AS A BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CITIZEN? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink MERZSCHMERZ Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or gradually depart from the original, as new elements get added, or others get cut. Steeped in memories of childhood, nursery rhymes and other bedside stories seem to speak with the authentic voice of pre-history, and forge a direct link to that bygone past. Although this is an enchanting notion, the reality is that these age-old fables are always something of a patchwork: the product of different authors, at different times. The party line about Kurt Schwitters was that he was many things: poet, performer, painter, prankster (and permutations of the above). It’s less often noted that he was also a writer of children’s stories – a playful, avuncular spirit with a penchant for the macabre and the absurd. A number of Schwitters’ captivating children’s tales form the basis of Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Merzschmerz, a series of short videos in which children revisit what they remember of each recently-read story, and relay it in the company of an adult (family member, neighbour, guardian or friend). As the children furrow their brows in concentration, or smirk in advance at the funny things they are about to impart, their excited faces are echoed by the indulgent, quizzical smiles of the adults, creating a moment of togetherness, and adding to the pieces’ infectious charm. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella for MerzBank. Supported by Arts Council England. Andrea Luka Zimmerman Shortlink MERZSCHMERZ: THE FLYING FISH, (1944) Andrea Luka Zimmerman 2014 Andrea Luka Zimmerman Shortlink LIFE FELL TO EARTH One of the things that some people lament about the internet is its propensity to ‘flatten’ experience. Disembodied, weightless, searching, always searching, we skim and flit over the surface of things – zero gravity, zero affect. In George Barber’s Life Fell to Earth, the speed at which we have suddenly gone over to this online universe, and its mirror-image of our small blue planet, induces a feeling of disorientation, even of vertigo, but also something strangely uplifting, as Barber summons, from this digital ether, a swirl of images whose random nature belies their unexpected emotional charge. Delicately assembled, with Barber’s usual quicksilver eye and trademark lyrical finesse, from memorial pages and other personal tributes posted to YouTube and elsewhere, and combined with other free-floating matter from all parts of the web, this evocative twelve-minute video is further embellished with sampled music and other found text. Channeling the magpie sensibilities of Kurt Schwitters and other pioneers of collage, Barber invests Schwitters’ Merz aesthetic with a profound sense of weltschmerz (a sadness and despair at the sorrows of the world), creating an elegy to mortality and human fallibility that echoes Rilke in its melancholy intensity. Falling headlong into an uncertain future, weighed down by a past they can never quite escape, Barber’s images deftly evoke the ‘long tail’ of the internet and quietly underscore it with a low, plangent wail of nostalgia and loss. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella for MerzBank. Courtesy waterside contemporary, London. George Barber Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM UKM – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN IF I WAS BORN BEFORE 1983 TO A BRITISH MOTHER? Download Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink MERZSCHMERZ: LUCKY HANS, (1925) Andrea Luka Zimmerman 2014 Andrea Luka Zimmerman Shortlink Enlarge Share Save FORM (B)OS – HOW DO I REGISTER AS A BRITISH CITIZEN IF I AM A BRITISH NATIONAL WITH NO OTHER NATIONALITY? Download this artwork as a pdf Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson Shortlink Copyright © 2013 Designed by kickmouth.com