INDEX-SYSTEM Workshop with Esther Anatolitis
3:30-5:30pm Saturday 21 March 2026
at BLINDSIDE, 54 Errol St North Melbourne 

INDEX-SYSTEM began as an impossible desire. How to make tangible that most evocative element of the unrealised project: the ideas that sparked the work, in whatever form they had first taken?

Our every collection of journals, visual diaries, notebooks, mindmaps and ephemera is a library of libraries without a catalogue, without a point of entry, without a means of access. Working with our hands frees our thinking in ways unmatched by the digital – but handwriting and drawing remain stubbornly unsearchable, frustratingly out of reach.

Join Esther Anatolitis for this two-hour workshop on INDEX-SYSTEM, currently showing as part of A Library of Libraries. INDEX-SYSTEM is both a work and a practice: an auto-archive, a critical reflection, a generator. What began as a desire to contain ideas has become a radically open work.

Esther will take us through the genesis of INDEX-SYSTEM and perform its practice. Together, we’ll then propose a shared mode of practice for critical reflection on practice. It’s all going get a bit meta.

Homework reading: 

Be sure to bring your notebook and your favourite pen/s.