This MFA thesis consists of a body of research-based studio work, an exhibition of selected studio works combining variations of writing, painting, sculpture and installation, and a supporting written document. Combined, this interdisciplinary thesis project questions the conditions, limitations and violence of order and ordering practices. Drawing on histories of institutionalization and postmodernist considerations of time, space and place, this work critically navigates the tensions between discipline and transgression, concealment and transparency, excess and restraint. The pieces in this collection, including the written document, work together to trouble the boundaries of order, and consider what it means, or if it is possible to have meaning, out of order.