Knowledge has long been and still is confined by spatial politics and the way our bodies are distributed along and across geographical borders. The Funambulist magazine is literally a rope dancer of a magazine, connecting threads from political struggles and researches from locals of different places in the world. Shivangi Mariam Raj will invite listeners to her journey to the magazine and the magazine’s journey to create an archive of its own.

What could Radical Librarianship look like? In approaching long-standing libraries, we unearth inscribed manifested mechanisms of exclusion and elitism. Amongst others, it is a feminist task to dismantle and disrupt a universalist Western approach to naming and framing, processes of validation and biases of categorizing knowledge. Eva Weinmayr will talk about the recent collaborative research project Teaching the Radical Catalog – a syllabus (with Lucie Kolb) mapping current interventions and practices addressing this task.

Pauł Sochacki co-founded Arts of the Working Class (together with Ines María Inés Plaza Lazo and Alina Kolar) in 2018 and since then has developed its distribution scheme with street vendors and multiple pick-up places in Berlin and other cities. AWC’s model aims to create a subtantial shift in an art world that often stops at symbolic and theoretical criticism. AWC’s activities involve houseless and other vulnerable groups, but their raising demands for newspapers to be sold in the summer months collide with ecological and economic considerations.

publication studio(s) provide an infrastructure in which small print runs of books can be produced on site, limiting storage costs and over-production. Distribution works in collaboration with other publication studios in the network, producing small print runs of the same book in the studio in their respective locality. This system is carried by ten studios in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. Yin Yin Wong co-initiated and ran the Publication Studio Rotterdam (2015-2021).

Jorinde Splettstößer and Linnéa Meiners translated their curatorial practice back and forth into space and words. As part of their work for the communal Galerie im Turm (Berlin) they have engaged with artists with sicknesses and disabilities. They also opened up the space to audiences who have, for instance, difficulties in reading and writing by providing texts in “plain German language” – a set of rules that requests authors to limit the complexity of their writing and demands clear political positioning.

Crip Magazine is a self-published magazine, released on an irregular basis. It refers to the history of the disability rights movement, with 80% of its contributors identifying as disabled. Drawing on the reclamation of the term crip (as in Crip Theory) that emerged within disability studies and activism in the 1970s, the magazine overturns the ableist and hyper-productive framing of bodies within capitalism. Eva Egermann, initiator and publisher of the magazine draws a line between collective political publishing in Vienna after 2000, editorial care work, learning processes of insitutions and the recent collectivization of Crip Magazine.