150 Million Empty Boardrooms Collage

Performing a Google Image Search query with the word "boardroom" results in approximately 150,000,000 images of empty boardrooms. Several questions arise: why are spaces designed for human interaction/communication depicted as empty? Why do people take pictures of these empty spaces? What do these spaces and the many images of them tell us about our culture and our concept of business, work, importance, and status? Capital and power beg to be represented in tangible ways, and the imagined ownership of exclusive and available spaces satisfies this modus vivendi desire, if you will. The potential for human interaction and communication is not only embodied in such charged empty spaces, but also simultaneously excluded from such spaces. Boardrooms, empty or not, deny the general public from any kind of democratic participatory agency, which fits nicely into seemingly innocuous but dramatically exclusionary private property clauses. Boardrooms are the sacred spaces of the corporate parallel universe; non-members of the corporate elite are simply not welcome. This accompanying video shows how corporate etiquette can and must be learned: https://vimeo.com/52133327

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