corporate poetry

by Alex Saum

Talk at the Spanish and Portuguese department, UC Berkeley

April 16, 2021

Give "me" your data:

please, complete the following poem: Room #2

Originally published in The New River, Spring 2020. <http://thenewriver.us/room-1-and-room-2/>

On Bodies, Surveys, Virus and Rooms. Enter Corporate Poetry

Taken from my personal website <http://www.alexsaum.com/corporate-poetry/>

Submarine cable map <https://www.submarinecablemap.com/>

Room #1 <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ4C9Q4i_KCwuDei2kK1SV7GyVQrWYozEavjbi-xpCqv55OA/viewform>

On display at Texts of Discomfort (Bournemouth, UK) <https://icids2020.bournemouth.ac.uk/exhibition/>

Room #2 <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHN3QXM>

“Spain l u ch truth commis ion to probe Franco-era crim s (...) The Sp nish gov r m nt s ys t it wll open n st mtd 1,200 mass graves."

" s y mor t 100,000 of F ’s fr m e vil war n its aft rmt r m n buried unmarked graves cr ss pain — f g re, t Amnesty International."

"S ain s sa d t b s c nd y t w n c s to ‘missing’ persons."

“mass graves”

Backroom #2. A response poem

"Made to Disappear" http://www.alexsaum.com/made-to-disappear/

Perspekptive 102.103 (2020): 96-99. Digital version at https://abc.perspektive.at/literalex-corporate-poetry/

Perspekptive 102.103 (2020): 96-99. Digital version at https://abc.perspektive.at/literalex-corporate-poetry/

Room #3 (From The Offline Website Project, TOWP)

To be on display at "COVID E-Lit" virtual Exhibition, May 26-28th, 2021 (a DARIAH-EU project)

Find these and other projects at

http://www.alexsaum.com/artwork/