PUBLIC REGISTER / VERSION 1.4

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The Research Register

This register brings together research, versions and activations that may be interrupted, resumed, transformed or closed.

It does not describe a linear progression. It makes forms visible as they emerge, change state or remain open.

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BOARD OF STATES

Published research

The public register is a curated selection. It does not reproduce the artist's private Kanban.

Emerging

01

Formulated research still being tested.

RESEARCH 02 VERSION 0.1

The Summons of the Milieu

How can a local maritime signal summon an action, then produce a trace and an archive?

State
Emerging
Media
Protocol, action, data, archive
First direction
Shore Signals

A milieu produces a signal. The signal summons an action. The response may be completed, delayed, prevented or refused. The research observes the gap between the signal and that response.

HYPOTHESIS
A protocol to be tested. No constituted occurrence is published.

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Active

02

Research currently producing forms.

RESEARCH 03 VERSION 0.2

Studies of the Ordinary

How can an ordinary action, actually carried out, produce a form without being embellished, dramatised or explained in advance?

State
Active
Media
Performance, video, poetry, HTML
First studies
3 documented, none published

A real everyday action is recorded, recounted and then examined. A question chosen by the artist opens an after-the-event poem and may lead to an HTML form.

DOCUMENTED FACT
Three studies exist in the private archive. Their materials are not published here.

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RESEARCH 01 VERSION 0.3

Temporal Signatures

How do a date and time become a form, an identifier and a point of closure?

State
Active
Media
Drawing, notation, protocol
Latest closure

Seven documents dated from 2012 to 2026 show how timestamping, its separators and frames become visual forms.

DOCUMENTED FACT Detail of the inscription dated February 13, 2026 at 18:26, with date and time linked by an underscore
2026-02-13 | 18:26. Partial view of the inscription, one of seven archival documents.
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Interrupted

00

Research paused without being rejected.

No published research.

Completed

00

Works or series considered complete.

No published research.

Transformed

00

Research that became something else.

No published research.

METHOD

Each research project has its own temporality.

A work can be completed. Research may remain open, become interrupted, resume or give rise to another form.

States do not indicate degrees of success. The protocol makes visible the conditions, variations, passages and moments of closure.

CRITICAL LEGEND

Distinguish what is documented from what remains to be tested.

Documented fact
An element supported by a document or an identified source, within the limits of that evidence.
Interpretation
A reading proposed from the documents, distinct from what they directly establish.
Hypothesis
A proposition or protocol to be tested.
Unverified
Information mentioned whose verification has not been established.
Unknown
Missing information or a question unanswered at this stage.

DAX RICAUD

Artist.

His conceptual practice is built through research, gestures, protocols and situations. According to the needs of each work, it may draw on drawing, painting, photography, video, action or archival forms.

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Portrait of Dax Ricaud wearing a red scarf
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CONTACT

Start a conversation around a research project.

For an exhibition, an activation, a collaboration or a conversation around the work.

dax@daxricaud.com

FIBONACCI / EXPERIMENTAL TIME MEASURE

SINCE 2026-10-06 | 08:32 UTC+4

Each elapsed second advances one position in the sequence. The counter displays that index, not the value of the Fibonacci number. It places the site's continuous time alongside the discontinuous temporalities of research: its relevance remains to be tested through practice, without measuring productivity.

TERM INDEX 1