Tag Archives: speculation
2018 | Photo installation | Wallpaper, 12c pigment print (multiples of 90cm wide x 260 cm high) | 10 Lambda C-print 70 cm x 48 cm | 5 Lambda C-print 60 cm x 42 cm | All prints Dibond mounted
Capital Offence, 2018 · Category: Installations, Photo
Tags: agribusiness, autonomy, commodity futures, fences, land rights, museums and art business, NAFTA, speculation, subsistence agriculture, up-cycling, Zapatistas
2010 | 2 channel video installation | Colour and black & white | Stereo sound | One loop 5:23min, one loop 8:35 min | Here the work is shown as a two-part video.
Photo © 2014 Robin Hanvelt
Little Mountain is a good example of the consequences of local government abdicating its responsibility in favour of speculative investors. The destruction of the residential estate displaced a large number of families in favour of a speculative gentrification project which is to include only a small percentage of social housing. It is the kind of confrontation common throughout much of the Western world as governments move away from intervening in the economy as the welfare state towards providing an attractive investment climate for entrepreneurs as the “competition state”.
Little Mountain, 2010 · Category: Installations
Tags: gentrification, minorities, privatisation of communal property, social housing, speculation