| 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. |
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