Exhibiting the art of corporate identity theft
In the offline art installation, the paper trail of the project is displayed with prints of the documents of the scheme set up for the operation.
The following diagram shows the flows of legal accountability, financial gains and information management among the jurisdictions utilized to engineer the massive-scale market of corporate identities. Among the printed and framed subsidiary certificate, the ID and the bills of the artist, the audience at the exhibition space is able to buy identities of companies from a pile of thousands of counterfeited paper certificates of incorporation. Eventually the art installation becomes a low cost identity shop for offshore companies and in doing so, democratizes both offshore business and the selling of conceptual subversive artworks.
Selected pictures of installations at the following shows
Unstable Territories, CCC Strozzina, Florence; Aksioma, Ljubljana; MAK, Vienna.
A few thousand Caymans companies on paper - Download more pictures
Certificate of incorporation of Paolo Cirio Ltd. in the City of London, UK - Download more pictures
Installation at Unstable Territories, at Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence, Italy. 2013 - More pics |