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*[en español [ES] abajo]

corporate poetry

by Alex Saum

[EN] is an exploration into how corporate language [through its many standardized forms] captures and relates to that other corpora that is our bodies

*Rooms #1 and #2 appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of The New River. Backroom #3 [Made to Disappear] in a special issue of perspektive magazine, Fall 2020. Rooms #1, #2, #3 and Backrooms #2 and #3 are also part of the online exhibition “Texts of Discomfort (Winter 2020). Room #3 was on display at Covid/E-Lit, online exhibition (Summer 2021) and at Caracteres, exhibition at the Instituto Cervantes, New York City (Spring 2023). “Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in your Gut” was published in Hyperrhiz n.24 (2021) and on display at “Refamiliarization” (Fall 2021). Room #3 was anthologized in The Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 4.

Room #1

"Make sure to click Next"

Watch a reading of Room #1 for the Art Research Center at UC Berkeley

Room #2

"We welcome your feedback"

Room #3

"Unmute yourself"

“Room #3” is a crossover poem between The Offline Website Project and corporate poetry.

Backroom #2. A response poem

"Some of us are made to disappear"

Backroom #3. Made to disappear

"44 participants; 1 poem"

Click on the image below to enter Backroom #3.

Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut

"Take our Product Concept Test Now" *click below*

[ES] es una exploración sobre cómo el lenguaje corporativo [a través de formularios estandarizados en sus muchas variantes] se relaciona con y captura ese otro corpora que son nuestros cuerpos

[Alex's "corporate poetry" project is made possible thanks to generous support from the Poetry and the Senses 2020 Fellowship, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley]