Notes on my practice
Maintaining a website in my name seems to make less and less sense now. I would say that it is a relic of the neoliberal logic that I was taught
in design school: market and brand yourself, sell your creativity (for a fee that never covers your actual expenses) and compete with others
in the hyper-flexible labour market in which only those willing to self-exploit the most (often in the name of the labour of love: 'but you're
lucky, you love what you do') or suck up to money power 'make it'. Cultural production itself has become largely synonymous with the market
principle. Even 'critical practice' has found a comfortable place here, because it tends to be content with tokenism.
My work now is a combination of research, designing, writing and activism - rarely do I put my name to 'outputs' because they tend to be produced
collectively, and because it doesn't matter. This type of practice is genuinely interested in the political nature of cultural production. It is a form of
dissent, a practice committed to rejecting and indeed fighting against the increasing commodification and marketization of culture and education,
and committed to alternative modes of working, living, communicating, learning, participating.
(for lectures/briefs see the links in the Lecturing section)
The works and bits of writing in this section here are older pieces that do not reflect the above described practice. I guess they are here as
a cathartic break. ➜
