Finish setting the scene for nobody by checking whether you have put in place the:
1. row of paintings nobody likes? yes / no
2. corner protectors for marks nobody leaves? yes / no
3. ringing of a telephone that nobody can answer? yes / no
4. photographs of corner-paintings taken with nobody in mind? yes / no
5. copies of an art catalogue that nobody reads? yes / no
6. doorway through which nobody will enter? yes / no
7. poster for a sculptural situation that nobody will see? yes / no
8. empty ledge, upon which rests the moment that waits for nobody? yes / no

Checked? Sign the time _____ and date_____ then quickly depart before nobody sees you.

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from the Encyclopaedia of setting scenes
page 160301
a. table, with telephone and catalogue on top
b. empty space on a wall in a cafe where there was once a poster for a cultural situation
c. meeting place where secret agent black is to recognise secret agent blue by the matching half of a poster they both cary
d. a noisy corner where echoes telephone rings and pauses
e. an empty ledge upon which rests the moment that awaits nobody

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art catalogue that nobody reads:
for an exhibition nobody went to
Fergus Armstrong : a letter to the people of 5,000 years hence from a Japanese school child included in the Expo ‘70 capsule in Osaka;
Sandra Bridie: her Gallery and Museums Studies Resarch Quaestions, entitled ‘Artists as Curators’, left unanswered;
Andrew Hurle: two empty forms;
Gail Hastings: an excerpt from an article on the architecture of James Birrell to be published in Monument Magazine.