My intent was to create a very restrictive, dictatorial space. Once you sign the legal documents, you have no rights left in the project. You are promised something throughout and given nothing in return, but your information remains and it is almost impossible to delete. The process of deletion is painful and long. You have to build a grave out of VRML chips, write an obituary and pick a method of death taken out of the crime archives.
Deletion is real and painful.
The work also suggests that the body has become something that is owned, a property, something you can shop for. Our bodies are reduced to information which is being passed around and collected through the networks. Again, the construction of the body is taking place within a context that looks very corporate. The participant has to read legal conditions, become a member, fill out forms. In that respect, Bodies INC. also refers to how the Web has become colonized by e-commerce.