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Future Perfect: New Bylaws for Civic Spaces is a hopeful, positive act of re-configuration, created in collaboration with UK performance duo Action Hero. Bylaws that regulate behaviours in civic spaces are cut up word-by-word and meticulously rearranged into a new set of rules for a transitioning world.

From this new poetic script, selected phrases are enlarged and re-inserted back into the architecture of the cityscape on billboards, acting as playful instructions, permissions or manifestos; a collection of imagined alternative behaviours unfolding throughout the city. As the signs appear across the city from the words of existing bylaws, an accidental poetry emerges that invites the reader to imagine new ways to move through civic space; re-constructing and re-engineering possible futures.

Future Perfect has been developed with the support of Fluid Festival in Calgary, The British Council and the Canada High Commission in the UK.