Research, public programmes and publications · Vancouver and Mexico City
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the studio of Andrew Ahachinsky, artist and researcher
Work

Public objects, hosted conversations and field research.

Each piece is small enough to hold and specific enough to answer: who took part, what they left, and how they are credited.

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2026 · Shown

Pasaporte de Forma

An editorial field object shown at PRINT 2026, Design Week Mexico. A five-part manual for noticing how participation begins and what remains after a threshold is crossed.

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In development

Field notes

Short authored records of live cultural questions, with sources, uncertainty and corrections kept visible. The first follows PRINT 2026.

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10 November 2026 · Dresden

The Experimental Museum

A talk and closing Room, online, for TU Dresden and the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD): one question, answered before and after.

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Field Object 001: Pasaporte de Forma

PRINT 2026 · Design Week Mexico · Mexico City · 8 to 31 October 2026
The stamped Pasaporte de Forma on its table at PRINT 2026
Pasaporte de Forma at PRINT 2026, Mexico City. Photo: Miguel Alpuche
Pasaporte de Forma on display at PRINT 2026
The display, with the passport, stamp and manual pages. Photo: Miguel Alpuche

Pasaporte de Forma is a printed passport about who gets to take part and who gets the credit. One copy lay open on a table with a single stamp and one instruction: use it once.

Visitors did not stop at once. They stamped page after page, then the margins, then the table the passport sat on. The object kept the evidence: a record of entry that became collective, made by people whose names the passport never asked for.

Credit lineConcept, design and direction: Andrew Ahachinsky. Photographs: Miguel Alpuche. Exhibited at PRINT 2026, Design Week Mexico. The stamps are by the visitors who used it. Text written with AI assistance under Andrew’s direction and approved by him.
Object
Printed passport and manual
Format
20 pages, full colour, 120 g/m² paper, saddle-stitched
Size
105 × 148 mm
Shown at
PRINT 2026, Design Week Mexico
Dates
8 to 31 October 2026
Sheet
Project sheet, PDF ↗