White Paper Manifesto (aka On the Aesthetic of Delayed Production and Indefinite Planning) is an artwork in the form of an online white paper. The white paper exists as an ongoing google document, open to comment, ready for further edits and constantly updated. The artwork outlines planning as an artistic approach and situates artists in the current ever-hostile socio-political climate characterized by late capitalism, network culture, institutional failure, and the climate crisis. The white paper rethinks the logic of exhibiting and art production in this day and age. The white paper views proposal, as opposed to art production, as a valid artistic practice to navigate the current calcified art institutions and a starting point to imagine new economic systems for artists.

Adopting a metamodernist position (a concept coined by Luke Turner), the white paper oscillates between the grandiose statement of manifestos and the boring clauses in corporate annual reports. It appropriates the bureaucratic language of government agencies to speculate on a new mode of doing art. The idea describes will be ever-changing, in perpetual influx, never coming into conclusion nor fruition.

More than an institutional critique on the contemporary Culture Industry, it advocates for an ecosystem that accommodates emerging forms of art - 'the art of delayed production and indefinite planning'. The project argues that planning exemplifies the oscillation between pure imagination and corporeal production, between jaded cynicism and fresh-eyed hopefulness. By drifting away from art production, the white paper speculates on a value system based on planning as opposed to producing - the aesthetic of delayed production.