Following an interest in continuing to address in art the only matter that should interest art, that is, art itself, I hereby announce the curatorial project that will occupy the next three years of my impracticable practice. All the performative works that I have written/inscribed/disinvested since 1999, in particular their conceptual operations, para-artistic formalisations, and documental ramifications, will be transferred to other artists, under a regime of unconditional and irreversible donation. With them, and not from them or about them, the new bearers will do as they please.
The new program aims to develop, albeit in a detour, the material previously imploded in Retrospective (2023-26), coinciding with a critical and post-disciplinary analysis of my artistic trajectory while risking the reinvention of its history and, in confronting a resigning dogma, also the prediction of its future sustainment. Invoking the infinite unfolding of ontologies from the analysis of an anthology, Transmission (2026-28) configures a dismantling by intensification of agencies, authorships, and becomings, but without promising any resumptions or reparations. A legacy that survives in its deterioration. If it were (really) about Rogério Nuno Costa, it would be called Apostasy (2028-).