Now Available: New Digitization of Abigail Child’s Mercy

Posted September 11th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

Mercy (1989, 10 minutes, color, sound, 16mm or digital file)

Mercy, the last in Child’s Is This What You Were Born For? series, is encyclopedic ephemera, exploring public visions of technological and romantic invention, dissecting the game mass media plays with our private perceptions.

“You could say the sound plays the part of the page, the way its field excites the eye turning the meanings of the word sounds make (polyphonic) or that it is modelled after the mind’s divergent attention (jumpy overlaps) or perhaps that the relation of sound to image is prepositional, is a repositioning. To sever the connections which have become scar tissue.”
— Abigail Child, This Is Called Moving