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During our 2019 tenure as Ruth Stephan Fellows, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, A Published Event began to develop a new field of creative enquiry around the concept of the erratic. The erratic might be considered as matter both in and out of time and place, to have come to rest (geologically) on bedrock that differs in composition and form to its own materiality — a migration that many people, ideas and materials can also attest to. As artists, we are interested in gestures of relation, in the ways that language parses so many fields of experimentation. Erratic, also meaning to wander, to move in an irregular or unconventional way, to queer; we also experience unfamiliar heart rhythms, extreme weather conditions and a wide range of exposed communities. Through our small-scale sculptural field stations, digital platforms and experimental apparatus for recording site, language and experience; we seek new understandings of how social, political and ecological ‘erratics’ might come to transform contemporary life.

Image: Erratic Ecologies Field Station, Or an emergent apparatus for speculative research (2019). Comprising sixty-two copper-foiled episodes, two lengths of solid copper bar, one block of quarried Stony Creek Granite, one archival blueprint. Documentation of a constructed event. A Published Event.

Field Guiding the Erratic

APE: http://www.apublishedevent.net...

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library: https://beinecke.library.yale....

Erica Van Horn: http://somewordsforlivinglocal...

Listening in The Anthropocene, curated at Charles Sturt University: https://creativepracticecircle...

The term ‘Thick present’ (Dona Haraway). Artforum iunterview 2016: https://www.artforum.com/inter...

More on Alexander’s ‘Pattern Language’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

More on Yusoff’s concept of 'corporeal geology’ in A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None: https://manifold.umn.edu/proje...

More on Massumi’s ‘bigram’ in Parables for the Virtual Movement, Affect, Sensation; Chapter 8: Strange Horizon: Buildings, Biograms, and the Body Topologic.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/par...

The term ‘Fictiōneering’ discussed in more detail here, Inflexions Journal: https://www.inflexions.org/rad...

More on APEs collaboration in Maggot & Crow, Sydney Review of Books: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.co...