Björk’s co-creative director a talks about translating the singer’s Vulnicura album into an out-of-body virtual reality experience Artist James Merry, 37, has been working with Björk since 2009; they were introduced by a mutual friend while Merry was studying ancient Greek at Oxford University. He moved to New York to work with her, and played a vital part in her 2011 album, _Biophilia_, on which each song was accompanied by an interactive app uniting concepts of music, science and nature. Merry has remained Björk’s right-hand man through her 2015 breakup album _Vulnicura_ and this year’s _Utopia_, as well as making her elaborate masks and headpieces. Their latest project is a full virtual reality version of _Vulnicura_ in which seven VR videos by different directors follow Björk’s path through heartbreak and recovery in the Icelandic landscape, from a verdant valley into a dark lava tube and out the other side. Merry lives and works in Iceland. Continue reading...
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