The board of Registered Charity asked the director to write a handbook of contemporary arts administration during a residency at La Galería Autogestiva in México. Upon submission, the board discovered the director wrote something else entirely. The document was called Majority Report.
Majority Report is a 'failed handbook' for contemporary art in an age of total bureaucracy. It follows the breakdown of an arts administrator as they pursue an arts practice in an environment of rules, paperwork and credentials. Set in México and Australia, it explores what happens when professional and clandestine forces collapse.
Initially conceived as an institutional critique novel, the book has a total word count of 40,000 in the genre of parafiction. It's structured in non-linear chapters of varying lengths. Operating as a handbook for my arts practice, Majority Report is a repository of performances, parafictional artworks and larger projects.
Fictionalised, warped and distorted with perversity and irony, Majority Report is inspired by my own experience running an incorporated artist run space from 2018-2023 in Naarm Melbourne.
