Tactical Response: Art in an Age of Terror explores the intricate relationship between representation and real life, particularly as regards art’s effectiveness in articulating conditions of atrocity.Tactical Response investigates works by three artists to consider representation as – what Jean-Luc Nancy calls – a presence. In State of the Union, Hans Haacke unveils an encounter that reflects presence through confrontation; Krzysztof Wodiczko enunciates private conversations in his installation If You See Something…, rendering emphatically present within the gallery space what is routinely ignored outside; and in Muxima, Alfredo Jaar exposes the daily consequences of a global economy with an immediacy that vibrates more strongly than our own lives.