Johanna Flato, "IO Sitemaps" documents detail, Harlesden High Street, London, 2019 (photo courtesy of Johanna Flato)
Johanna Flato, "IO Sitemaps" documents detail, Harlesden High Street, London, 2019 (photo courtesy of Johanna Flato)

.IO Sitemaps

2019

In a series consisting of satellite imagery and historical documents, the artist creates an alternative ‘sitemap’ of the British Indian Ocean Territory on a series of whiteboards, mapping contemporary US/UK digital and militaristic imperialism embedded in the ‘.io’ top-level domain, a darling of the tech community for its ‘input/output’ associations.

".io" is a country-code TLD representing the British Indian Ocean Territory, a highly restricted site in the Chagos Archipelago that saw thousands of local Chagossians illegally evicted in the late 1960s to make way for a joint UK-US military base.

MATERIALS:
assorted white boards, UV prints, documents, magnets, tape, dry erase marker‍
DIMENSIONS:
.IO Sitemap (documents): 150cm x 270cm; Diego Garcia: 120cm x 90cm; Peros Banhos and Salomon: 150cm x 120cm; Egmont, Danger, Eagle, Three Brothers: 120cm x 120cm
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