What is a found object? Finding objects means discovering new ways of meaning making. Our investment will be in the process of finding itself. “To find” means to retrieve something lost, but also "to be situated," "to deem something so," for "something to be the case that…" suggesting a search for a conclusive answer or determination. We will explore strategies for working with found objects which foreground the task of finding itself as one which is deeply situational, subjective, and at the heart of our own curiosities and creative impulses. Work with found objects involves negotiating with an inanimate interlocutor. Individual objects have their own lived histories, use values, presences, auras—they are already speaking and arrive with their own agendas. Working with findings entails negotiating and collaborating to form new meaning beyond what we could achieve independently.

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