In this first series of three episodes, Arefeh Riahi, Maartje Fliervoet and Martín La Roche Contreras have been invited to take care of one side of the paper. They have been regular visitors and thorough researchers in the Archive since de Appel moved to Broedplaats Lely. In 2017, during a collaboration with Martín La Roche Contreras and Maartje Fliervoet (Manifold Books), the term Remote Archivist came into being due to the archivist’s lack of time. Two years later, during Arefeh Riahi’s archival project “Un/folding Interventions”, the three makers met and formed “To See the Inability to See”. Together they delved deeper into de Appel’s Archive, connecting in their love for paper things – especially for the “aliens”; the pieces that don’t belong anywhere. Their own collections, memories, records and the meticulous determination leading to those lucky finds, culminated in Outdated Compass. Here, non-archivable and non-categorisable knowledge resonates in the now, but just a bit too late and out of time!