OUTLINE and Off Course invite you to Thing Theories, a 3-day publishing intensive in which we will collectively compile, edit, and print a publication on-site. We’ll centre research, production, and exchange across a series of workshops, presentations and conversations among participants and with guest contributors. The publishing intensive orbits two definitions of the artefact: as both an archeological term for a human-made object, and a term for a misleading error or confusing alteration in . We’ll explore and the stories and histories they carry, our relationship to objects and the power they hold over us, looking for parallels, and ways they relate through difference; to destabilise concepts of ownership and authorship, and to produce new modes of interpretation. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. What does it mean to possess an artefact? How can we overlay histories and (un)bend narratives? And what happens when these objects are appropriated, described, juxtaposed, , and finally published? Each participant will be asked to bring in an artefact (or its representation): an object that carries a story, or a history, into the present. On day 1 & 2, we’ll explore methods of collective processing — annotating, archival activation, historicising, translating — through a series of exercises and workshops. Together we will look for ways to describe, contextualise, layer, version, mutate, contrast and arrange our into a composite curiosity cabinet, to finally converge in the publication we will print together on day 3. For who Where When Practicalities Apply We’ll get back to you by the end of May. 
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