Protest by Proxy
Downing Street 2008

Protest by Proxy
Westminister 2008

Protest suit
From the series Protest by Proxy
2008
Green-screen felt

 

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Protest by Proxy

Sandcastle Cities

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Protest by Proxy
Mixed Media
2008

The Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005 prohibits anyone staging spontaneous protests within a 1km radius of Westminster's Houses of Parliament.
Protest by proxy is a service that allows people to demonstrate remotely from outside this territory using Hollywood Green-screen technology. The aim of the work was to not just to exploit a loophole in the law but also to rethink how we protest.