Over the year spent at Open School East, I further explored my motivating interests of time, production, materiality and communication. This manifested through workshops, reading groups and art works. I continued collaborating with Kerri Meehan to complete a project called Chimera. Chimera is a multi-channel film installation, which examines the objects in museums as gaining truthfulness through narrative rather than facticity. The film tells the story of how three characters exceed their curation in surprising ways. Through this, Chimera challenges the foundation from which cultural history is told. As part of Chimera, Kerri and I ran a number of ceramic workshops, called Making History, where participants were asked to make objects that would fool future archaeologists into thinking that our lives are different somehow.

I also ran a number of reading groups, sometimes with other associates. Theo and I ran a glass-knapping workshop, which explored ancient techniques of knapping with modern materials, alongside theories of the development of human consciousness as arising from a relationship with material and object, rather than evolutionary caprice or the absolute.

I further arranged a number of public events (as part of the Deep Time and Speculative Tours programming groups), which explored history, culture and material evidence, inviting John Akomfrah, Ele Carpenter, Susan Schuppli and Dan Hicks in for public presentations examining migrancy, history, culture and material evidence.

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