Docu_Merz is a collaboration with osa (Office for Subversive Architecture), whose MERZEN installation is currently showing at CUBE Gallery.

The origins of the word 'Merz' relate to the work of Kurt Schwitters and the process of combining a range of materials all within the same art-work. The osa installation takes this as a starting point and then uses the idea of assemblage and collage to make a structure out of gathered materials from the city, one that will continue to evolve over the course of the exhibition.

The work in Docu_Merz is an abstracted documentation of the osa/MERZEN/ project - a distorted reflection of a work-in-progress. In using multiple projections onto layered walls, it creates its own collage of moving and still images. The structure references the Merz stages Schwitters designed as a platform for his own work. Upon seeing the osa/MERZEN/ footage, the viewer is able to witness the developing stages of the installation, whilst also getting a sense of the process and complexity involved in making work. The footage will continue to evolve and grow throughout the period of exhibition.
 

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Steven Gartside
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