2009
35mm slide installation
13 projections
Dimensions variable

In the Near Future is a performance-based artwork in which I stage anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an ongoing investigation into the figure of the protester, the speech act of the protest sign and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.

In the Near Future exists in two parts: the first part is a series of performative actions and the second is an installation in which the photographic documents of these actions are projected from multiple slide projectors. Taken over several years in locations of current or historic public speech or protest – Brussels, London, New York, Paris, Vienna, Warsaw – the actions of In the Near Future are not constructed as a literal reenactment of a past protest but rather function as a citation: one that marks both the memory of a past protest and the possibility of a future one.