Post-Mortem Texts is an ongoing series of essays and field writings concerned with the conditions under which contemporary cultural practice now proceeds.

The texts do not argue that artistic production has ceased, nor that new forms are no longer possible. Rather, they address a situation in which the structures that once provided a shared horizon for the formation, recognition, and transmission of practice have weakened, dispersed, or altered.

What emerges is not an “after art” condition, but a continuation without a shared project.

These writings move across questions of institutional transformation, practice, duration, transmission, navigation, and the changing relation between cultural work and its conditions. They proceed through observation and structural description rather than manifesto or programme.

The series operates alongside, but separately from, The Manoeuvre Papers. Where those texts address the manoeuvre and related practices directly, Post-Mortem Texts considers the broader field conditions within which such practices now occur.

Current text:

• From Post-Modern to Post-Mortem (2026)