The British performance and installation artist Ed Fornieles loves to make a mess. In 2011, he sowed disorder on social media by using dozens of fake accounts to enact the Facebook meta-drama "Dorm Daze." Earlier this year, for his exhibition "Despicable Me 2," an ode to the fictional Gen Y goddess Britney Rivers, he cluttered Mihai Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles with totems of modern-day adolescence, including glitter, hearts, confetti and snapshots. And most recently, for a benefit at the New Museum in New York, he wrought chaos by hiring outlandish performers to attend as guests and mingle with the paying attendees, satirizing the conventions of the charity gala. With the 23-minute web video "Pool Party," made for the Museum of Contemporary Art's YouTube portal MOCAtv, the 30-year-old provocateur gets his hands dirty again. In the film, which debuted during a private screening at MOCA last week, Fornieles deconstructs reality TV by enlisting real life L.A. party kids to play out breakups, make-ups and, finally, a grisly murder. The addition of simple video filters (fake Super 8 dust, melting effects) and glitchy editing gives the piece a "sickening, cheap social media aesthetic," according to the artist. A chorus of distorted looped voices repeating the acronym "YOLO," voiced by the Tumblr-famous Niki the Unicorn, makes for a nightmarish moment that is both hypnotic and shrill, the same way Tumblr can be. It's played as a study of the reality TV archetype that America has syndicated to the world. "I'm not too interested in "reality,"" Fornieles says. I'm more interested in the idea that so strongly permeates around the world. You can show an image of Kim Kardashian from France to Bogota and people would be able to comprehend the body language and the outfit. It's a known background noise.