Majority Report is a suite of performance texts written to manage the office of an arts worker, hired to diversify an incorporated artist run initiative. It is written as a series of fictitious accounts, rather than a manual, dealing with imaginary scenes of arts administration. Such as delivering a manager’s report, signing off emails, applying for grants, making formal complaints, and more.
It is written from the perspective of a Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) arts administrator working for an artist run initiative (ARIs), during the time period 2018-2023. The comical thrust of Majority Report is that an incompetent protagonist with unrestrained narcissism is exploiting diversity frameworks in the underfunded and minimal structure of an ARI. Fictionalised, warped and distorted with perversity and irony, it is inspired by Ramírez experience running a gallery from 2018-2023. The title, Majority Report, is a reference to how diversity frameworks re-affirm majority structures through the inclusion of minorities.
Majority Report has a double life as writing (words on a page) and a spoken word performance. Initially conceived as a novel, it is a hybrid of prose about diversity in the arts. While also functioning as a script for spoken word monologues, that Ramírez can deliver on stage in a range of contexts, from poetry readings to art galleries.
