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10 programme accounts · 07 published research identifiers · 12 linked archive items

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PIRR project ID
Identifies a registered programme record in Museum of One’s research infrastructure.
PIRR programme reference
Connects a working research record with its public programme account.
Publication DOI / Zenodo record
Identifies a deposited publication edition. Its identity is retained when linked to a programme.
Archive / component reference
Identifies a local catalogue description. A component reference leads to a text inside its parent edition.

Source: Museum of One’s explanation of PIRR and reference types ↗. Source review: 2026-11-04.

Programme account · In development

Aesthetics, Experience, and Art-Historical Mediation

The programme asks how a critic can remain accountable to an experience while recognising the historical and conceptual conditions that shape it. It attends to the relation between the work, the viewer, and the writing subject; to the use of names and categories; and to the limits of claims made on an artwork's behalf.

Responsibility in programme source
Dong-Yeon Koh and Dorian Vale
Research form
Co-authored book
PIRR programme reference
moo-program-cea97d3424057b2f28700b16 · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

Dong-Yeon Koh and Dorian Vale are co-authoring Between Image and Interpretation: On Restraint . The project examines interpretation, aesthetic experience, mediation, art history, and the developing implications of Post-Interpretive Criticism. It asks what restraint requires when a critic encounters, situates, describes and interprets a work. The published conversation and the developing book are distinct records. This entry does not present the manuscript as a completed publication.

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Archive publications connected with this research 00

The selected archive has no work-specific programme relationship recorded here. The public account may include developing work and publications outside this deposited selection.

Programme account · In development

Alexander Viktorovich Markov: Critical Language and Lasting Correction

What makes a correction to an interpretation remain effective over time?

Responsibility in programme source
Alexander Viktorovich Markov and Dorian Vale
Research form
Theoretical dialogue
PIRR programme reference
moo-program-2b3ad664cbd92f69b862db8c · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

A developing theoretical dialogue with philosopher and literary theorist Alexander Viktorovich Markov concerns the authority of critical language and the endurance of correction. The programme asks how an interpretation comes to guide subsequent decisions, and what allows a justified correction to remain available and effective when that interpretation is encountered again. The dialogue asks how critical language shapes later encounters with a work, and who remains responsible for its use. Shared writing is under discussion; no format or venue has been agreed.

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Archive publications connected with this research 02

Programme account · In development

Oindrilla Maity Surai: Curatorial Context and Interpretation

How can curatorial context make a work accessible without prescribing the account a viewer gives of it?

Responsibility in programme source
Oindrilla Maity Surai and Dorian Vale
Research form
Curatorial micro-study in development
Published PIRR identifier
No identifier transcribed from the reviewed public account. The programme URL remains its source reference.
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

The inquiry examines how a curatorial decision shapes access to an artwork and the accounts that follow an encounter. It considers selection, omission, sequence, language, and the authority carried by exhibition texts. Oindrilla Maity Surai leads the curatorial work and local relationships. Dorian Vale develops comparative documentation and analysis through Museum of One. The study brings their respective contributions into discussion with Post-Interpretive Criticism, including the distinction between context necessary for access and language that directs a viewer towards a settled reading. The study does not assume that less context is preferable. Historical information, language access, and the conditions in which a work is shown must be considered before comparing alternative framings.

Archive publications connected with this research 00

The selected archive has no work-specific programme relationship recorded here. The public account may include developing work and publications outside this deposited selection.

Programme account · In development

Paul Gladston: Witnessing, Chinese Aesthetics, and Curatorial Afterlives

How do witnessing, Chinese aesthetics, and plural critical perspectives shape a curatorial encounter, and what happens to a framework after it enters circulation?

Responsibility in programme source
Paul Gladston and Dorian Vale
Research form
Written dialogue in development
Published PIRR identifier
No identifier transcribed from the reviewed public account. The programme URL remains its source reference.
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

The conversation developed from reciprocal correspondence and an agreed exchange of questions, responses, and follow-up responses. Each response can prompt further questions; the exchange is not a fixed interview. Gladston’s scholarship supplies distinct perspectives on contemporary Chinese art, cultural translation, deconstruction, and polylogue. Vale brings questions developed through Post-Interpretive Criticism about witnessing, mediation, and how provisional accounts can shape later encounters. These contributions remain attributable to their respective authors; a shared conversation does not imply complete theoretical agreement.

Archive publications connected with this research 00

The selected archive has no work-specific programme relationship recorded here. The public account may include developing work and publications outside this deposited selection.

Programme account · Continuing research

Phenomenological Methods and Diagnostic Reading

This programme examines whether the conduct of critical writing can be described with sufficient precision to support comparison, disagreement, and revision. It connects phenomenological aesthetics with practical questions about what a text observes, what it infers, how forcefully it interprets, and what evidence supports its claims.

Responsibility in programme source
Museum of One
Research form
Research and experimental methods
PIRR project ID
pir-prj-pyp5yx3w · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

Measuring Proximity , From Husserl's Mathematics to Dufrenne's Aesthetics , and Quantifying Critical Posture develop the published methodological sequence. Diagnostics Without Possession provides an operational reference for coding and inter-rater reliability work. The reading tools show how the proposed distinctions can be applied to critical language.

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Archive publications connected with this research 02

Programme account · In development

Reiko Tomii: Operation and Historical Answerability

How can evidence of artistic labour, organization, and access change an art-historical account, rather than remain background to it?

Responsibility in programme source
Dorian Vale
Research form
Independent inquiry following discussion with Reiko Tomii
PIRR programme reference
moo-program-fc96d462c463652ce260cd27 · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

Following discussion and feedback from Reiko Tomii and engagement with her published research, Dorian Vale is developing an independent inquiry into operation, documentation, and historical answerability. It asks how evidence of artistic labour, organization, and access can change an art-historical account, rather than remain background to it. Tomii's distinction between expression and operation provides a point of contact. Vale's further question concerns what an account must do when operational evidence places pressure on an established interpretation: what must be revised, which claims remain supportable, and how the grounds of a correction can remain available to later readers. Tomii's conceptual contribution and historical work are attributed to her. The further argument and proposed research direction belong to Vale. This entry does not imply her coauthorship, endorsement, participation in every part of the inquiry, or an agreed joint publication. The discussion and the independent working study are distinct from a published dialogue. Private meeting records and correspondence are not reproduced here.

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Archive publications connected with this research 01

Programme account · Continuing research

Sudanese Art and Aesthetics

What can sustained attention to Sudanese art disclose about aesthetic experience, cultural memory and the critic’s responsibilities to works and their histories?

Responsibility in programme source
Dorian Vale. Other contributions are credited within their individual records.
Research form
Art-historical and aesthetic research
Published PIRR identifier
No identifier transcribed from the reviewed public account. The programme URL remains its source reference.
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

This programme brings together research on Sudanese art, aesthetic experience and the ethics of criticism. It provides a home for books, papers and critical essays, tracing how particular investigations develop into further work. Cultural Authority Beyond the Song , a working paper in progress, extends the inquiry to singers, reverence and artistic hierarchy in Sudan. The inquiry examines artworks and artistic practices alongside the histories, sources and conditions through which they become available to a critic. Questions of war, displacement and cultural memory remain part of this work, alongside attention to material practice and the aesthetic life of the works themselves. The Arabic translation of Threads of Sand, Scar & Scripture belongs within this wider programme. Its translator, progress and edition history retain their own record.

Connected programmes

Archive publications connected with this research 01

Programme account · Continuing research

Witness, Material Presence, and Cultural Memory

Applied criticism tests the responsibilities described in the philosophical work against particular artworks, spaces, materials, and histories. This programme attends to absence, grief, displacement, material fatigue, and the persistence of a work's consequences without allowing a subject's seriousness to stand in for close attention.

Responsibility in programme source
Museum of One
Research form
Field essays and studies
PIRR project ID
pir-prj-dd7kt5rw · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

The Canon of Witnesses and the field essays preserve encounters with named works and artists. Long-form publications extend this inquiry to Sudanese art and the ethics of witnessing, and to architecture, power, and the moral evidence of space.

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Archive publications connected with this research 07

Programme account · Continuing research

Intellectual History and Conceptual Development

This programme follows the development of Post-Interpretive Criticism's vocabulary, distinctions, and qualifications across the published work. It examines how a concept is introduced, how its use changes, and how later arguments qualify earlier formulations.

Responsibility in programme source
Museum of One
Research form
Source-based research
PIRR project ID
pir-prj-xgd6wb9d · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

The Living Lexicon records the vocabulary used in the foundational essays and doctrine. A definition does not establish universal adoption or independent validation. Source-based research keeps a term attached to the work in which it is proposed and the argument through which its use is defended.

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Archive publications connected with this research 01

Programme account · In development

Threads of Sand: Arabic Translation

How can a critical study of Sudanese art address war, displacement and cultural memory through the ethics of witnessing?

Responsibility in programme source
Osman Omran, translator; Dorian Vale, author
Research form
Arabic translation
PIRR programme reference
moo-program-ccb726880981ccbeb400023c · Published identifier source ↗
Public account / source
Read the complete programme record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-11-04
Scope and current work from the public account

Threads of Sand is being translated into Arabic by Osman Omran, a Sudanese graphic and book designer and freelance translator based in Muscat, Oman. Omran proposed the translation for Sudanese readers and a wider Arabic-language readership. Dorian Vale authorized the work on 21 August 2026 and accepted the proposed translator's preface. Omran subsequently reported that the translation was progressing. The work extends the book's access across languages while retaining the distinction between the author's argument and the translator's contribution. Translation, design, and an eventual edition are related activities, but progress in one does not establish that the others are complete. The Arabic translation is authorized and in progress. No completed Arabic edition, delivery date, or publishing agreement is announced here.

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Archive publications connected with this research 01

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