Corpus ID: 2583278

Professional Parody: An Examination of Artist Practices Parodying and Disrupting Business Models to New Ends

@inproceedings{Mellor2015ProfessionalPA,
  title={Professional Parody: An Examination of Artist Practices Parodying and Disrupting Business Models to New Ends},
  author={Alexia Mellor},
  year={2015}
}

Alexia Mellor

Published 2015

Engineering

This paper identifies trends within visual arts practice in which artists have adopted corporate and organizational structures to be disrupted, blurred and interrogated. The research investigates artist projects that: parody corporations with the aim of “identity correction;” expose, critique and reveal the proliferation of corporate and legal language in culture; and mimic emerging business models with the intention of disrupting them in order to be applied in new ways to new contexts… CONTINUE READING

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