In early 2026 Pavement Print Studio was invited into the Transmedia Relay, a chain of artistic response initiated by Aimless Research Institute. The relay had moved from Bruno Latour diagrams through KLATSCH Ensemble's six-hour sonic performance Object Lore, and landed with us. Our job was to respond in print, then pass it on.

Less Unreasonable is what we made: 22 exposed screens, layered prints in deep forest greens and midnight blues, installed at GalleryGalleryINC on Hope Street, Brunswick. The title comes from a translator's note in Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern — an admission that the job was not to make the text less unreasonable, only to render it faithfully. That framing shaped our approach: staying with the difficulty of translating sound into print rather than resolving it away.

Working from a sonic performance meant we couldn't represent it directly. We sat with the documentation, let it settle, and worked with the visual language that emerged — atmospheric marks, nodes and paths shifting from network diagrams toward something more like flow and movement. The colour palette moved away from Pavement's usual bright overprints into something heavier and contemplative. Six hours of improvisation has weight.

Overprinting remained central. Individual drawings from the crew layered into prints none of us could have made alone — the technique mirroring the relay logic itself. The wall installation became the accumulated record of that encounter.

The relay will move on from here. We made our response and passed it forward.

Exhibited at GalleryGalleryINC, Brunswick, March 2026. Part of the Transmedia Relay Series, initiated by Aimless Research Institute. Photography by Elena Hogan.