The Very Nature of Materiality Is an Entanglement is a revised edition of OK-RM's landmark collaborative research project — a book that functions simultaneously as report, artefact, and open invitation to non-linear participation across art, design, architecture, and performance.
About This Book
Between 2021 and 2024, the design studio OK-RM convened artists, architects, researchers, musicians, and dancers under a single guiding question: what does genuinely collective making look like? The result was five stages of exploratory research — called Enquiries — that produced films, performances, poetry, sculptures, and musical compositions. This revised edition distils those endeavours into a physical form that embodies their ethos: printed in silver, structured as a circular object with no prescribed beginning or end, the book resists conventional publication logic. Guided by the principle of orchestration — constructing a unified whole from choreographed parts — it is as much a design object as a document of interdisciplinary creative practice.
Key Features
- 296 pages of collaborative research documentation including films, performances, poetry, sculpture, and musical composition records
- Created by OK-RM and Lila Matsumoto, with contributions from artists, designers, architects, researchers, musicians, and dancers
- Originally commissioned by Goldwin 0 as part of OK-RM's multi-year residency
- Published by InOtherWords, 2024
What You'll Discover
- How the principle of ‘orchestration’ — choreographing multiple discrete parts into a single cohesive project — can structure both creative practice and publication design
- Five distinct Enquiries in which collaborators pursued synthesis across creativity, practice, and communication through radically different media
- A physical book format — printed in silver, constructed as a circular object — that materially enacts the working values of transparency, lightness, and participation
- An argument for non-linear reading as a design position: the reader becomes a participant rather than a passive recipient of a fixed narrative
About the Author
OK-RM is a design studio whose multi-year residency with Goldwin 0 formed the generative context for this project. Lila Matsumoto is named as a co-author on this revised edition. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 296
- Dimensions: 17.5 x 11 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781739930981
- Publisher: InOtherWords
- Publication Date: 2024
Perfect For: Designers, artists, and architects interested in collaborative practice, experimental publication design, and interdisciplinary creative research.