Your Life Matters
On Display at Nuit Blanche 2023
Your Life Matters is a collection of wearable art tech pieces that both critique the ridiculous lengths protestors have to take to safely interact with police and the intersections between social justice and capitalism. The project takes the form of a collection of wearable tech pieces, designed to help protestors safely navigate police interactions. They are additionally framed as products sold by the fictitious tech company, Sentinel Technology. The framing of the pieces as products ask the audience to question the intersections between social justice and capitalism. How does capitalism feed off of, and often devalue, important social movements for profit? How do we as consumers practice resistance with our money? And would we be ok living in a future where these “products” are available for sale?