The board of Workforce 2000 asked the gallery director to write a handbook of contemporary arts administration during a residency at La Galería Autogestiva in México. The director wrote something else entirely. The document was called Majority Report.
Majority Report tells the story of 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.
Conceived as an institutional critique novel, the book has a total word count of 40,000. The chapters set in México employ stream of consciousness in the first person, while the chapters in Australia use epistolary narration.
Majority Report is a narrative repository of performances, parafictional artworks and larger projects, operating as a functional handbook for Ramírez arts practice.
