The Very Nature of Materiality is an Entanglement - OK-RM & Lila Matsumoto

From 2021 to 2024, OK-RM assembled a group of artists, designers, architects, researchers, musicians, and dancers to create new propositions for collective working and making. Commissioned by Goldwin 0 as a means to influence and inspire through new forms of creativity, to test out new modes and practices of collaborative work, to create forms that would be enriching to us and our communities and participants, and which would set off a generative cycle of extended learning

This book is a report of the five stages of exploratory research—Enquiries— in which the collaborators pursued a dynamic synthesis of creativity, practice, and communication through the creation of films, performances, publications, poetry, images, sculptures, and musical compositions. Exploring alternative methods of publication and design, it is guided by the principle of ‘orchestration’: the act of creating a single project from the choreography of multiple parts.

The book’s materiality embodies the Enquiries’ working methods of transparency, hybrid combinations, lightness, curiosity, and participation. Printed in silver and constructed as a single, circular object, the reader is invited to engage with the book as an open-ended, non-linear experience, and to become a participant in its spirit of enquiry. 

InOtherWords, 2024
Softcover, 296pp 
175 x 110mm