Develops the concept of institutional exteriority as a condition read at the moment of establishment, before later classification or institutional handling.

delta version research is an independent research and publication name for theoretical work concerned with sound, art, event, institutional capture, and the conditions under which practices, works, records, and comparisons become handleable.

Its publications are composed, reviewed, and issued under this name, with particular attention to the relation between theoretical construction, publication form, and the processes by which events become referable and transferable. Institutional Exteriority is its first major theoretical publication.