ECONOMIC ORACLE

Economic Oracle
Carry on Capital
Vincent van scoff Gallery, London, 2010

Economic Oracle was made at the opening night of the exhibition Carry on Capital on the 6th of May 2010, election day. With the economy at the top of the campaign agenda I chose to trace a graph of the Gross Domestic Product, from 1990 to the present day, across the front page of the Financial Times with fuse cord (like that on fireworks). Eighty pins carefully held cord in place, at quarter yearly intervals. Once lit the fuse burned its way up and down through the years. A tiny bomb of gunpowder exploded at the start point of the 2008 recession, signalling the collapse of the economy. The fuse was left to scorch its way past the first quarter of 2010, to as yet un-experienced territory on the graph. Unsupported by pins at this point randomly writhed and wriggled, predicting the future.

This could be seen as comment on the helplessness we feel after being ripped off by the banking system.