Created by myself and Peter Naessens, Moron Reality was a collective between ourselves during the COVID-19 pandemic that produced: a short-lived website; two videos; a collection of collages and paintings; and a manifesto, that read:
“Moron Reality is a website and soon-to-be zine inspired heavily by the punk Xeorox zines of the 1980s and contemporary internet satire. In creating Moron, we intend to take a stand agaisnt the vapid glamorisation of artists and young people, without any critique of the way media is consumed. We are a collaborative group, united by the frustration of the identity of an artists taking precedent over their art. Our aim is to create an alternate source for lifestyle, news, fashion, cooking, and ART. Are you tired of morons who pretend they’re not morons, stabbing and clawing their way to the top of social and professional hierarchies? We will claw and stab YOU. But we know we’re morons.”
It was in our close friendship, cultural values, and living within 2km of eachother that we were able to create work in the same room together at this point.
6 ULTIMATE VOMIT LIFE HACKS is a satire of clickable hack videos, and an experiment in artistic formatting. It was made in seething response to the commodification and emboldening of poorly thought out art in the same way video farms produce endless amount of poorly made and illegible videos.
The audio is a midi of ‘I’m Shipping Up to Boston’ by The Dropkick Murphy’s (2005), which was relevant because of Moron’s perpetuation of ‘Celtic Futurism’, an oxymoron (get it?), that sought to recapture and continue the strange trend of pre-Celtic-Tiger media that picked up the lost Irish/pagan culture which was lost in colonisation. The song itself, a symbol of warbled Irish-American ideation of a culture that doesn’t exist except for in its diaspora.
The original artists’ statement read: “Whether you have tummy trouble or just enjoy a good rupture, these hacks will significanly improve your life, make you more attractive, and more interesting. Take these well researched and REAL tips from the MORON REALITY team. Do it now!” (2021)
The audio is a midi of ‘I’m Shipping Up to Boston’ by The Dropkick Murphy’s (2005), which was relevant because of Moron’s perpetuation of ‘Celtic Futurism’, an oxymoron (get it?), that sought to recapture and continue the strange trend of pre-Celtic-Tiger media that picked up the lost Irish/pagan culture which was lost in colonisation. The song itself, a symbol of warbled Irish-American ideation of a culture that doesn’t exist except for in its diaspora.
The original artists’ statement read: “Whether you have tummy trouble or just enjoy a good rupture, these hacks will significanly improve your life, make you more attractive, and more interesting. Take these well researched and REAL tips from the MORON REALITY team. Do it now!” (2021)
WE ARE MEAT TO is purposefully inane. It is another perspective on suburban barbecue culture, and a nihilistic one at that: I’m meat, you’re meat, lets eat meat. With several breaks in the video while Peter and I are eating the hotodgs to remind the viewer so.
The Moron theme is made by me, and the abstract Jazz is excerpts from The Bad Plus’song, ‘Boo-Wah’.
The Moron theme is made by me, and the abstract Jazz is excerpts from The Bad Plus’song, ‘Boo-Wah’.
The original artists’ statement read: “Watch as eight young hotdogs discover their place in the world relative to the meat around them. They revolt and scream and riot, but they come to meat their end. It is suburban, it is meaty, it is you and I. (With partial sampling and abstraction from The Bad Plus’ song ‘Boo-Wah’ from their 2003 album, ‘These are the Vistas).” (2021)
