Project description: What, How and Why

What?

Hierarchies is an on going installation project that investigates how technology is often used to maintain oppressive social, political, and economic structures in society. The work investigates the intersection between both the media and the military industrial complexes’ within contemporary neoliberal society.

The work attempts to both literally and metaphorically expose the structures that lie beneath the capitalist systems that operate beyond nations, laws and borders.

Hierarchies attempts to interrogate the links between these different systems of authority and influence that underpin society explores the social, environmental and economic consequences of infinite growth on a finite planet

How?

The project incorporates multiple works that move between both made and appropriated images. Taking multiple approaches to image making the project utilises photography, video, sound and sculpture.

Why?

With the birth of neoliberalism in the late 1970’s, technology has arguably shifted from being an optimistic innovative force for realising social progress, to being used largely for control and discipline.

From all-pervasive state surveillance to terrorism and drone warfare the threat of potential violence underpins globalised society. This hyper-real violence, based largely on spectacle, has started to expose the inequalities based on class, race and gender that still exist within western society. .