LOSING YOU TO BULLSHIT:
A poetic short documentary that was ten years in the making. This work mixes video diaries, poetry and Ridiculism, and responds to Exurb1a’s videos Dear Nia, Losing You, Maybe I Am the Alien, as well as BulletBarry’s‘Exurb1a’s Experiment A’ documentary series on YouTube.
Ridiculism is the idea that some things become more ridiculous the more deeply you understand them.
In Losing You to Bullshit, truly understanding the work requires reading The Dark Side of Justice diary series, watching videos from three different creators, understanding public narratives and metaphorical and layered references. And once the full context clicks into place, the absurdity does not disappear. It intensifies.
The tragedy becomes clearer. So does the ridiculousness. Confused? Good. You will only get more confused. That’s the point of the artwork.
Find the pattern through a ten-year maze leading into the free diary series The Dark Side of Justice: a chaotic collection of diary entries, poetry, prose, experiences and receipts that together challenge linear narrative, time and perhaps even the idea of a single coherent reality.
Maybe, at the end, you will see the cathedral that was built - and the light behind it.
“Live your life for greed and I will live a meme instead.
I will make the inner like the outer and troll the universe back.”
- Pie, a ridiculist