Presented in this exhibition is the absence of its presence; in other words, the presence of this absence.*

List of absent work:

1. Artist's breath (after Duchamp)

2. Removed work (after Hanning)

3. Whisper (after Bruguera; reconstruction of experience of eavesdropping)

4. 'Cloud' (after Haacke; accumulation of instances of biographical readings of works of art)

5. Pollution piece (after Haacke; ceiling residue from coffee maker used whilst working/sleeping)

6. Light refraction (unrealised future work)

Also available from reception is an 'art manifesto’** consisting of four points (presented as 'a critical theoretical plea for the creation of alternative conditions for experiencing art that avoids projecting an imaginary white cube as a comforting insulating shell, mirroring the image of the viewer's psychic interiority’):

1. The deterioration of culture into the culture industry functions as a refutation of culture by reality.

2. Culture has always contradicted social reality and constituted another dimension of it.

3. The idea of the 'human condition' functions as an affirmation of the existing condition of the human, foreclosing the emergence of a new condition of the human.

4. Humanity is the ideology of dehumanisation: to imply that humanity is realised in the present reaffirms the features of society which prevent the realisation of humanity.

*The originally planned exhibition 'dematerialised’ for reasons unknown (the participating artists - who appear to have disappeared - had intended to stage industrial action outside the gallery in protest at having to exhibit within the confines of a white cube).

**'Images of Another Way of Life'; The Closure of the Gap Between the Ideal and the Real via the Destruction of the Capacity for Cultural Form to Constitute Another Dimension of the Real - of Reality (2021), a collective art ‘manifesto' developed in collaboration with a research project supervised by Herbert Marcuse, Director of the Centre for Research into the Social (CRS), and Michel Foucault (Chair in the History of Systems of Thought). It was originally entitled 'Dystopian Communicative Action’.