Alan Greig
Brooklyn neighborhoods are pockmarked with building sites. Required to display details of what is under construction, many sites also present a computer-generated visualisation of the building to come: glass walls under clear blue skies. These visions of gentrification rely on distanced observation. Up close, the blues of the sky and its windowed reflections become noisy, dirty, blotched. Their visions are stained by the life they attempt to suppress.
Alan Greig is a writer, photographer and video-maker based in Brooklyn. He explores the use of visual media to disrupt regimes and codes of social control, working between representation and abstraction, motion and stillness, surface and interface. Against the algorithmic operations and programmed visions of surveillance capitalism, he is interested in what control cannot control, i.e. in control’s visual remainders.
