Term | Definition |
Abwesend | Absent, away from a place |
Actor Network Theory | Abandons hierarchical ontology to propose a level plane of entities, or actors |
Agency | The capacity to act in the world |
An Oak Tree | A transubstantiated glass of water |
Art as Life | Continuous practice, pure activity, not leading to particular results |
Art Object | Things that result from art works |
Art Work/Art Project/Project Network | The wider network of artist, objects, documentation, happenings, publications, curator, organisation, audience, etc. |
Art Writing | Writing within the art project |
Artifying | When any thing is placed in artistic context/White Cube |
Artscrubbing | The removal of the art object from artistic context/White Cube |
Assemblage | A collection of things that exist together in the project network |
Bit | A small part of a wider whole |
Can’t Touch This | Rules imposed by the gallery that negate handiness |
Causation | Cause leading to effect |
Clogged Tote | Ephemera of pamphlets and written matter from galleries |
Dispersed | With elements scattered across the network |
Distributive | Dispensed in parts |
Documentation | Physical/oral things representative of art work |
Edible Matter | Foodstuff and its specific Thing Power |
Efficacy | Ability to cause effect |
Et Cetera | Alluding to multiple other things, without specific detailed mention |
Event | A thing that happens |
Flat Ontology | Organisation of entities as equal and mutually relevant parts |
Fragment | An incomplete piece of a wider whole |
Green Box/Box File | Paper documentation as part of, and in relation to, an art work |
Handiness | Functionality of the object |
Happening | Something that takes places and continues to unfold |
Helix | A plastic plane with hollow interruptions intended for, but not restricted to, mathematical study |
Interview | A conversation to gain documentation from a source |
Light Box | Illuminated structure intended for study or speculation |
Light Switch | Enables lighting of room and visibility of other things via process-based action |
Multiplicity | A variety of elements forming connections between personal universes |
Object Oriented Ontology | Philosophy that rejects the privilege of human existence over non-human objects |
Other Work | Work that is not Art Work |
Overmining | Objects perceived too falsely deep to be the truth |
Parallel Process | Expanded conceptions of art; actions, objects, process |
Parliament of Things | Argument for the rights of the object |
Playlist | Combination of things in deliberate sequence |
Portfolio | Portable collection of things, representative of wider study |
Postcard | The symbiotic display of text and image to invite participants into a project network |
Primary | First in rank |
Real Object | Objects withdrawn from theoretical, relational or practical access |
Referencing | Hierarchical relation between objects, in which one designates another |
Representation | A thing that demonstrates and alludes to other parts |
Secondary | Less important in rank |
Self-Sufficient | Contained and complete in itself |
Semiotics | The study of signs and symbols, such as language, in communication |
Sensual Object | The object of experience |
Socially Engaged Practice | Art that encourages practical relationships with audience and human actors |
Temporary Community | An audience present at a specific event/happening |
Thing Power | The agency of objects and actors |
Thingness | Function and use of things |
Things | Entities both human and non-human |
Time-Poor | Lacking time and feeling the pressure of it |
Town Collection | Art objects, accompanied by text, that have been created by artists in residence at Deveron Arts |
Trajectory | The path or movement of a thing |
Undermining | View that objects are too shallow to be the truth |
Vibrant Matter | Recognition of active participation of non-human forces in events |
Vorhanden | Present, in existence |
White Cube | Art context; gallery, museum, art book, art website, etc. |