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ANNOUNCEMENT 13/12/12:
We have relaunched the Mercy design studio. Visit the new site wellmadestudio.com for info and to see some of our work.
We'll leave design work in the portfolio on this site for a few more weeks while we manage the handover.
The Mercy arts/literature programme will then have exclusive use of this site, including news of our latest Electronic Voice Phenomena tour.
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FEATURED ARTICLES
A Mercy Announcement!
We've got some big news: we are splitting Mercy into two separate companies. Mercy will continue to operate as a program of arts and literary events, publishing and projects, and our design studio is to be repositioned fom today as Well Made Studio.
Read on for the full announcement.. More
Electronic Voice Phenomena tour 2013
The soft-launch of a new site dedicated to our partnership with Penned in the Margins, the EVP tour, featuring headline commissions from OUTFIT, ROSS SUTHERLAND, STEVEN FOWLER and HANNAH SILVA More
The Quest - bus intervention
Laurence Payot and Nathan Jones presented a spectulative and experimental intervention on buses in Liverpool on 4th December. Fragmentary texts delivered via mobile phone conversation More
FEATURED AGENCY WORK
Overlap
Overlap 2011 was a series showcasing the first phase of Mercy’s new live commissions - exploring shared territories across writing/music/performance.
The series was co-curated by Nathan Jones and Mark Greenwood, and presented in partnership with AND Festival, the Bluecoat, Glitch Karaoke and Liverpool Music Week. Contributors included Victoria View work
Interchange
’Cities on the Edge’ -the idea that Liverpool and a handful of other port cities were all interlinked by an ’edgy’ nature (both geographically and in attitude)- was a concept that came up in one or two update meetings during the run-up to the Capital of Culture year in Liverpool. We decided to run with the idea, and set about a 12-month View work
Audioguide
Scripted by top UK writers, this new audiobook describes works invented for the public sphere – as though the city were a living gallery of the beautiful and absurd. An alternative, imagined Biennial, the Mercy Audioguide references conceptual works by contemporary artists such as Peter Liversidge, as well as drawing on a host of writing influences View work
Bleeding Lips T-shirt
Limited edition silk screened cotton T-shirt. Printed black on white. Available in Men's sizes, S, M & L
You lousy bunch of bleedin' hearts
Mercy's 12 Angry E-zines, issue 12: Issue 12 is our antagonist: the emotionally distraught father whose stubborn refusal to consider all the facts threatens to derail the whole shebang. Read