Corpora-Scion critically inhabits the linguistic and psychological topography of corporate culture. The title plays on corpora (work) and scion (slave), signaling how ostensibly aspirational corporate structures can entrap competence within systems that demand conformity, self-censorship, and emotional restraint. This series of sassy corporate quotes operates as a deconstruction of normative vectors in workplace rhetoric: it voices what competent, thoughtful people think but dare not utter, using humor and visual sabotage as strategies of reclamation.
At once reclaimatory and ironic, Corpora-Scion refuses the neutral or motivational tropes of corporate comms, unmasking them as instruments of repression and disaffection. In reclaiming language and reframing it as critique, the work aligns with other praxis-driven projects such as Flog the Flock, where cultural speech—this time political rhetoric—is similarly exposed and reconfigured. Both works use visual text as a ground for voice against suppression, whether in corporate cubicles or in wider public discourse, revealing how systems—be they workplaces or ideological mobs—shape, shunt, and suppress the very competencies they purport to value.
CREATED BY: Stephen Chen | COMPLETED: 06/2015
