THE WORLD OF MOM & JERRY
Mom & Jerry could be a lifestyle. Or, it could be a universe
existing parallel to our own, inhabited by the two cartoonish
characters, Mom and Jerry, performing as the personifications of Chaos
and Dissidence.
Mom and Jerry consider themselves living, nomadic, pieces of art. They
see their surroundings, wherever they are, as the stage for their
everlasting protest and rebellion against established values, political
correctness and snobbery. As artists, provocateurs and outsiders, Mom
and Jerry attempts to criticize and mock the excluding, elitist,
hierarchical structure of the high art machinery. By acting out the
privileged classes spoken and unspoken prejudices against the
non-educated masses´ perception of high culture, Mom and Jerry ridicules
and questions the validity of the establishments´ defined moral values,
as well as the matter of good and bad taste.
Living their lives in late capitalist society, where the economic, abstract forces makes daily life unreal, and where the individual itself is the operating tool for the techno-marketing power, artists like Mom and Jerry can be seen as recycling machines in the monstrous, virtual city of garbage. By pirating private property and copyrights, by mixing brands and products, they take part in the ongoing production of knowledge, forms and spaces that people will interact with and recreate in new ways.
The project has earlier been shown as video, installation and/or performance at Everything Unneded, Oslo Art Festival III, 2007, Let there be light, Christianssands Kunstforening, Kristiansand (No) 2008, The Talitha Peace Spiritual Love Tour, Stamsund, (No) 2008, Video night at Kunstnershuset in Stockholm, Lights On at Astrup Fearnley Museet for Contemporary Art and Dortmunds Bodega in Oslo, Open Studios at ISCP, NYC, 2008, and as performing actd in places like Musée du Louvre, Paris, Times Square and Guggenheim, NYC.
Mom and Jerry on Øya Festival in Oslo