Improvised Inflatable Device

Improvised Inflatable Device / Dani Ploeger - Photo: Dani Ploeger

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Improvised Inflatable Device

Dani Ploeger (NL)

A suitcase bomb is equipped with a trigger system based on the Nokia 105 mobile phone—the preferred device used by non-state actors in Iraq and Syria during the 2010s. When the phone number is dialed, the bomb detonates: a 1:1 scale inflatable replica of the Fat Man bomb—the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, whose design has become—uncannily—iconic.

  • Photo: Dani Ploeger

    Dani Ploeger

    Dani Ploeger is an artist and cultural critic. He explores situations of conflict and crisis on the fringes of the world of high-tech consumerism. His objects, videos, and software engage with the spectacles of waste, sex, violence, and question the sanitized, utopian marketing surrounding innovation and its implications for power dynamics.