[NetBehaviour] The Stuff of Machines by Dani Ploeger | Watermans

[Irini Papadimitriou]

Dear all

I hope you get a chance to visit our new exhibition, The Stuff of Machines
by Daniel Ploeger, which opens tonight at Watermans.
This exhibition is linked to Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital
performance and the global politics of electronic waste, a research project
and group show which will follow in the gallery from 4-24 July (
http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/bodies-of-planned-obsolescence.aspx
).

All the best
Irini

The Stuff of Machines
Dani Ploeger

PV: Wednesday 10 June, 6.30-8.30PM - all welcome!
Exhibition continues: 11- 25 June

For the past three years, Dani Ploeger has exposed his body to the stuff of
techno consumer culture, ranging from brand-new objects of desire in
British and American shopping malls, to the debris of discarded electronic
devices on dumps and recycling sites in Nigeria and Hong Kong.

The Stuff of Machines brings together recent performance, installation and
interactive work that explores and subverts the expectations and dreams
surrounding everyday technologies, through an engagement with their
materialness in connection to bodies: parts of old televisions were
installed in the artist's abdomen, tablet computers wrapped in sheet metal
are left to charge forever, a petrol generator powered a computer inside a
transparent box with the artist inside, and a magnified infected wound
documents electronic waste recycling labour on a Nigerian dump site.
Meanwhile, visitors are invited to lick an iPad to indulge in their own
techno consumer fetishism.
www.daniploeger.org
http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/the-stuff-of-machines.aspx

The Stuff of Machines is linked to Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital
performance and the global politics of electronic waste, a research project
and group show which will follow in the gallery (
http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/bodies-of-planned-obsolescence.aspx
).
Bodies of Planned Obscolescence is funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama,
University of London. Grant reference: AH/L01582X/1


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Irini Papadimitriou
Head of New Media Arts Development
Watermans
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