Siobhan Rigg is a Washington, DC-based interdisciplinary artist whose creative work and research interests center on how complex issues are formed from the ways that lived spaces and relationships connect with mediated information and virtual encounters. Their current work is concerned, most immediately with the unequal impact of the toxic legacies of the built environment, and more broadly, with theoretical and material explorations of governance and resource extraction. Rigg’s creative and research interests center on the social and environmental histories of particular places and stories and their entrance into the political sphere. Rigg’s creative and research interests center on the ways lived and virtual spaces glide awkwardly across each other. If proximity lies at the root of much ethical engagement, how do we extend imagination to those challenges that require a confederacy of presence and virtuality? In response, the work connects social and environmental histories of particular places and stories, linking experiential and information-based understandings as sites for action. Through planned actions, dialogues and objects that engage audiences, their projects strive to provoke curiosity about sites and subjects of friction, revealing the complex narrative unfolding in the present moment, while creating a new layer with the performed action.