Memethodology

location: INDUSTRA ART (Brno, CZ)

duration: December 15, 2022 — February 03, 2023

curator: Anna Königová

Full videos from exhibition available upon request.

The video essay Memethodology uses the example of the gradual radicalization of the archetypal Doomer character to explore the background of events that end with user016256382 getting up from their computer, grabbing a rifle, and heading out to shoot up a mosque or a school. The second part of the essay looks at the challenges and limits of left-wing digital mobilization.

The loop TikTok-Confiscated Edits I–III presents an aesthetic-emotional hellscape of monologues by the Czech far right and political or cultural conservatives such as Daniela Kovářová, Marcus X Double, or Kateřina Konečná. In this context, “confiscation” refers to edits that were blocked or taken down by TikTok.

*TikTok-Confiscated Edits I–III*
video, 01 min 32 sec
2022

*We Love Janička*
video, 06 min 11 sec
2022

A recording of Jana Yngland Hrušková’s livestream from December 14, 2021 is displayed on a television screen. A six-minute monologue by a beautician who joins the stream narrates her gradual descent into a rabbit hole where even congealed nail polish might signify a conspiracy involving Kazakh Jews. I think she didn't know she was streaming this.