Dislocated Composition: Overview, Transcript and Selected Articles with Reference to The Necropolitan Line

The article makes reference to The Necropolitan Line, Palmer's exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (December 2015 – February 2016). This new text includes an Exhibition Composition and Overview, which is drawn from the various forms of information that were originally provided for the gallery employees. This information is interspersed with physical descriptions of the exhibited items. Implicitly about unsettled bodies, the text makes no attempt to resolve the resultant combination of positions: it situates itself in the present tense while it locates the exhibition in the past; it refers to the artist in the third person and exploits multiple sources without asserting an overall voice. The first part of the work provides the context for the storytelling, which is the body of the work, here dislocated to the two appendices. These contain the transcript for a live reading and a reformulated selection of newspaper articles from the exhibition.