The artist will push a wheel-less-barrow across town distributing Generic FUN icons. These icons are resonant images derived from the artist's past projects.



HOW TO LOCATE

The artist will travel from the Martha Stewart Omnimedia headquarters at 601 West 26th st (and 11 ave) to the K-mart at Astor Place. Between these points the artist will improvise.

The artist will depart at 1pm on Saturday April 6. The artist expects to take about two hours to wander to his way to K-mart.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Deric Carner is a sculptor, video artist, and visual designer. His work deals with the creation and dissolution of meaning. His forms are playful and interactive.

Look for his work in May at:
Other Routes, 126a Front st, Brooklyn (DUMBO)
www.genericfun.com/otherroutes


STATEMENT

Deric Carner's art is concerned with the creation and loss of meaning in contemporary existence. He seeks to intervene in the rationalist programming of life by inventing his own rules and self-contained systems. His work is a critical reflection of a bureaucratic and rhetorically rational society. He uses rule-based interactivity and a generic aesthetic that references informational graphics and established systems of objective and authoritative meaning. This fake objectivity is a facade behind which a willfully subjective set of meanings and rules operate. This ruse distances the artwork from the reality of authorship and intention, and allows for an ironic awareness of the artist's role as producer of meaning. The work attempts to provoke viewers to question their role as consumers and legitimizers of meaning.


NOTE

This Generic FUN performance is in no way associated with Martha Stewart Omnimedia, K-mart, or any other commercial enterprise.