Haacke is renowned for institutional critique that repurposes bureaucratic and administrative systems within gallery and academic contexts, directly paralleling Ball's quiet subversion of university post box infrastructure. His systems based approach to exposing institutional power structures mirrors the cybernetic and process art qualities embedded in this work.

Hirst's signature use of preserved organic specimens suspended in liquid vitrines shares a direct visual and conceptual language with the jars of frogs and octopi in green liquid central to this piece. Both artists use biological matter in institutional display contexts to provoke unsettling reflections on mortality and scientific authority.

Landy's practice centers on performative public interventions that critique institutional and consumer systems, often using everyday bureaucratic objects as focal points, closely echoing Ball's repurposing of mundane academic infrastructure. His process driven and systems oriented methodology aligns strongly with the liminal and interventionist qualities of this work.