The Premonition Bureau is a shapeshifting corporation founded in 2020 by artist Chris Dougnac, who claims they are a fellow of the organization. Lifting the name from the British Premonitions Bureau, established in 1966 to investigate all prophetic visions reported by the public through a dial-in hotline, The Premonition Bureau declares itself as an art security company that protects altered histories and expansive world building practices. Through performance and multimedia works that employ blue color labor and everyday means of production, the Premonition Bureau exacts a poetic institutional critique that highlights the feedback loop of modern theoretical dialogues within the contemporary art space. The Premonition Bureau functions as a vehicle for Dougnac to blur the boundaries of the work of art by repositioning its origin through time and space, between the public and the private.
