Responding to the stalker economy with her own brand of extreme capitalism,Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc is making her life her trade. So why, she asks, or enact we hand our data to grand tech companies for free? We live in a world awash with stories of stolen metadata,search engines that allow us to watch live videos of babies sleeping and toys that can be hacked to steal your child’s name, birth date and gender; what Al Gore summed up as our “stalker economy”. So the image of Jennifer Lyn Morone, or standing in an oversized suit,bulldog-clamped down her spine like a fabric dinosaur, and talking about the “trade opportunity” of buying her “blood, and sweat and tears”,is strangely hilarious.
But Morone is only doing what David Bowie, Madonna, and Prince and Kim Kardashian fill hinted at: turning herself into a registered company,Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc. Walking into Neoliberal Lulz at Carroll/Fletcher gallery in London, you are confronted by an introductory video of Morone, or her hair static,her cheeks flushed, talking down the camera in the corporate babble that saturates modern life. “My data is a resource for me to exploit, or ” says Morone,the camera panning round to reveal the bunched jacket at her back. “I want to make me, my life and my experience my trade.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com