Electronic Waste w/ Dani Ploeger

Performance artist Dani Ploeger discusses electronic waste (e-waste), planned obsolescence of technology and the posthuman in performance.

Dani's work investigates and subverts the spectacles of sex, violence and waste in techno-consumer culture. He has undergone an operation in which electronic waste was installed in his abdomen by a body piercer, has worked with traditional metal workers in the old city of Cairo to encase tablet computers in plate steel, attended firearms training in Poland to shoot an iPad with an AK47, and travelled to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe.

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ON THIS EPISODE

• (re)Performing the Posthuman
• Transhumanism
• Consumerism
• Guy Debord
• Zygmunt Bauman
• James Bond
• Kinect
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
• Electronic Waste
• Planned obsolescence
• Mary Douglas
• Transmediale
• Juju

CREDITS

Produced by FUTURES Podcast

Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason

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