lowgo, 2002

The Lowgo project started in 2002 when I was able to visit Guatemalan villages in the highlands, and hear the women’s stories about how NAFTA had devastated their communities by drawing young people away and into urban sweatshops, trapping them in landless poverty. It struck me that corporations act as a single cell, greedy and isolated, in competition with each other. I declared myself obsolete as an individual human and for a few years spent my time collecting traditional indigenous Guatemalan cloth and embroidering designs for the logos of fictitious corporations preying on economic hardship in the developing world.
I was trying to draw a connection between market forces and embryonic organisms. By this act I was seeking to be a corporate raider, stealing visual traditions of a culture, just as a corporate bio-pirate in the rainforest would steal and patent the wisdom of native remedies.

Articles about Lowgo
The Obsolete Self, NYFA Current, February 2005
The Single-Celled Artist, Satya, May 2005

Manifesto
Read the Lowgo Manifesto

Lowgo Global Life Science, We make messes embroidered on cloth
Trademarked fingerprint
Profits, Misery
EMB splitting world
Frog
Homeland Factory Obliteration Partnership
Cheap Knock-Off Division
Handwringing Kitchen Towel
Global warming textile
Target Birds
Trademark magnifying glass
Christy Rupp URL embroidered on cloth

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