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The viewer sees. Large printed metallic, Print Photos mounted on 3 mm aluminium mounted on split battens affixed to the wood and the wall. The photos are a repetitive series called "adverts" ranging from fig 1-10; photos of the technology behind digital advertising light boxes that routinely appear on high streets , specifically to advertise [X, Y Z]. the images show wires, light fittings and various ambitious cabals. 120cm X 80. We also have a series of works called "market data"; photographic prints mounted on construction pager; the documents are nailed into wood on top of which is an acrylic frame, so they also float. On the document is stock market data. Black on grey . I take the page spread and remove information such as the dates. Remaining: lots of columns of data going down in lines. On top of the data is glossy photographic prints, : my laptop screen; videos uploaded on news websites, UK tabloids like the Mirror and UK and broadsheets like the GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT. These projects are ongoing.

WHY:

THESE NEWSPAPERS GATHER INFORMATION FROM IMPORTANT SOCIO POLITICAL EVENTS (TERRORIST ATTACKS, PLANE CRASHES, AND REPORTS BY CITIZEN JOURNALISM OF SUCH EVENTS. THIS SERIES IS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAPITALISM AND CURRENT EVENTS AND HOW THE STOCK MARKET IS EFFECTED BY CURRENT EVENTS.

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.