Inspired by the increase in pharmaceutical giants’ investments in online ancestry companies, Made from pillars of spit proposes an alternative narrative to people-
powered platforms, manifest as a genetic data company that offers shares in exchange for health information. Here, data is shared to advance science but also to take part in
value created.

In this exhibition, team building tools leftover from a professional development exercise for ‘members’ lie dormant and partly disassembled. When not activated
they move away from their initial intention and allude to a wider culture of enforced positivity of success, productivity and corporate start-up companies gone bust.  Objects embedded with an overbearing positivity now stand in as gatekeepers in the middle of an exchange between consumers and research.

This body of work Airdrops from ‘real world’ companies, re-imagining them through sculptural installation to investigate the boundary where mythologies around
emergent technologies and consumer faith interact. Made from pillars of spit looks to this ‘new market model’ as a way to explore the relationship between the loss of inherent trust placed in corporations and the allure of gained incentive.

Jack Caddy is an emerging artist living in Perth, whose practice is concerned with the
potential for online communities to create material change.

After finishing a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University (2017) he has exhibited work with Moana Project Space for Hobiennale (2017), Sister Gallery SA (2018), and
MEANWHILE gallery NZ (2018). He also has work published in Island Island for Bus Projects (VIC) and presented at Revelation Film Festival Academic conference (2018).