'There is a drone above your house' / Teddy Griffith

Teddy Griffith is an emerging artist studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the VCA, Melbourne. His practice consists of digital and multi-media collage, photography and text that explores the tools of advertising and the relationships between people, corporate/media imagery and ideologies within late capitalism. 

This series of work deals with a popular balm for the paranoia provoked by the shadowy mechanisms of contemporary life- conspiracy theories.

A statement from the artist:

Conspiracies are funny- maybe some are real. I made a series of three works within this format. This one took the longest and is by far the shortest. 

They would be installed like paintings, at an eye level of 156cm.

Here’s the text in full:

facebook measures the proximity between iphones on weekends and recommends new friends accordingly, colgate retains the products that would really fix your teeth, clearasil retains the products that would really clear your acne, the last excess of any lotion, cream or paste makes your symptoms worse, apple is selling your notes and voice memos to pop singers and TV executives, fast food restaurants are placed in between your work and your train station, anti-cigarette advertisements remind you of cigarettes, AI-powered assistants are bugging your home, whispering bomb into your phone gets you put onto a list, social media executives collect your nude photos, your phone listens to your conversations to recommend associated products, anti-terrorist organizations monitor your messages, your partner is sleeping with that TV executive, deodorant makes you sweat more long term, the fluoride in the water is altering your body chemistry, your office is selling your internet search history, your superannuation is in the hands of investment bankers, multi-vitamins contain fluoxetine, relatable social media posts about failure and inactivity acclimatize you with failure and encourage inactivity, punk music is a ploy to sell guitars, high school is a ploy to sell university, marriage is a ploy to sell jewellery, rent is regulated so to increase the wealth gap, your phone will eventually take your job, there is a drone above your house, working hospitality irreversibly damages your libido, constant exposure to those living better lives than you through social media is designed to encourage working harder and longer hours, phone alerts make you more susceptible to advertising, aliens are real and they are controlling your thoughts through pesticides, your credit card tracks your movements and buying habits to sell to companies so they can recommend you products, vaccinations make your ankles retain water, the lighting in shopping malls and casinos isintended to prevent you from determining how long you’ve spent inside them, Jeff Bezos is masturbating right now, alcohol is legal because it makes you more docile, supermarket produce weakens your immune system, pharmaceutical company employees are happier than you, you are now dependant on iphone calculators for small additions and subtractions, you are now dependant on google for information, no one is passionate about customer service, working night shifts cause cardiovascular and intestinal problems as well as eating and sleeping disorders, working retail irreversibly damages your brain’s ability to create neural pathways

See more of Teddy’s work on Instagram: @_teddy_griffith_