In a series consisting of satellite imagery and historical documents, the artist creates an alternative ‘sitemap’ of the British Indian Ocean Territory on a series of whiteboards, mapping contemporary US/UK digital and militaristic imperialism embedded in the ‘.io’ top-level domain, a darling of the tech community for its ‘input/output’ associations.
".io" is a country-code TLD representing the British Indian Ocean Territory, a highly restricted site in the Chagos Archipelago that saw thousands of local Chagossians illegally evicted in the late 1960s to make way for a joint UK-US military base.