Three artists have been commissioned to produce new artwork based on an existing piece of their own artwork. Each date during the Retrogression programme will consist a live performance or headline event from one of the artists, accompanied by earlier versions of the artworks from all the artists including documentation of the live performances at subsequent events. 

The lecture, story teller, physical performance and presentation devices come under the spotlight in the artworks selected, each involving differing levels of reuse, repetition and retelling, which reconfigure meaning and images through documentation, abstraction, and translation. 

To be completely retrogressive artistically is an impossible state to achieve - we are always moving forward through time, experience and so forth, and even if we are not moving fast the world is, and so the conceptual connections and associations change and regroup slowly but consistently. There is no reverse to an earlier state, just development to another state. 

All of the artists in the exhibition have worked with Trade at some point in the past, so curatorially speaking the choices of artist are intentionally tinged with a sense of retrospection, and re-treading covered ground. 

Informed by a sense of political and economic retrogression, the programme has provided an opportunity for artists to use this sense of retrogression as a starting point for artistic adventure and escapism.