Artist Statement

I explore situations of conflict and crisis on the fringes of the world of high-tech consumerism. I make technological objects, videos, and software that engage with the spectacles of waste, sex and violence. Thus, I seek to question the sanitized, utopian marketing surrounding innovation and its implications for local and global power dynamics.

In this context, quasi-journalistic journeys often provide the starting point for the development of my work. I have made a VR installation while embedded with frontline troops in East-Ukraine, travelled to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe, stole razor wire from the so-called ‘hi-tech fence’ on the EU outer border in Hungary and interviewed witnesses of US drone attacks in Pakistan for a project around sound and technologies of violence. [source: daniploeger.org]

• Dani Ploeger, born in Middelburg, Netherlands. Studied at Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (BMus), Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic (PG), University of Sussex, UK (PhD). daniploeger.org