As part of A Library of Libraries at Blindside in March 2026, I presented an INDEX-SYSTEM workshop – and I’m still thinking about it all.

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. 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.

With a group of artists spanning a diverse range of practice modes, over two hours we analysed how we work and how we reflect critically on our practice. I mind-mapped as we spoke and drew.

Find prompts in our process for your own – and look out for more workshops this year, including a major Frameworks for Practice event.