Earlier this year, I started corporate poetry as an exploration into how corporate language related to that other corpora that is our body.** Through a series of interactive “rooms,” this work aimed to repurpose the language of a variety of familiar online forms and platforms (Google Forms, Survey Monkey, Zoom and Qualtrics, among others) in order to domesticate the neoliberal intent of these data gathering technologies. My original hope was to bring attention to their language and our embodied reality, by making visible the digital infrastructure that is unintentionally brought into our homes whenever we participate in an online survey or take a video conferencing call.
We let them in so they can count us; at our most vulnerable,
wearing pajama bottoms.
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