The Predicament of the Pipeline is a performance lecture made in collaboration with artist Louis Pohl Koseda as part of an ongoing exploration of the UK’s planning system and its inherent complexity and contradiction. The performance was an attempt to elucidate on the layers of palimpsest that are present in government decision making processes, but also the layers of narrative that are presented in the painting.

Building on my research at the Design Museum, The Predicament of the Pipeline untangled the layers present in the current planning application process.

With a new piece developed in collaboration by Louis Pohl Koseda as a backdrop, as well as using a narrative structure, soundscapes and live drawing I untangled the layers of bureaucracy to reveal the ways in which palimpsest defines the nature of policy and governance historically, and the impact this has on real life scenarios.