Performance Appraisal is an ongoing series revising Ramírez's body of work through the lens of bureaucracy. The framework of a 'performance appraisal' implies Ramírez' ouvre is being measured, reviewed and valorised. In the event of re-showing a work that has undergone an appraisal—without the mechanisms that make it an appraisal—he simply retitles it as Dead Work with a number matching the appraisal.
In Performance Appraisal 4, Ramírez wrote a script to participate in a mediation with Stefa Panoschi curated by Thomas Stoddard. The crux of this fictional conflict was that Stefa made a coffin with a semblance to my own work (from my solo exhibition Signs of The Undead in 2019) and that a few years earlier Stefa had worked with me as a volunteer. In Enemies! at TCB Gallery, we showed our coffins next to one and another and sat in a corporate mis-en-scene hilariously arranged by Tom. Our scripts played with common quarrels in the arts: exploitation, gaslighting, youth envy and much more. An ongoing gag across the scripts was that we may, or may not be, real vampires.
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