Teaching the Radical Catalogue. A Syllabus 2021-22

Abstract

The syllabus "Teaching the Radical Catalog" is a document produced for the exhibition "Reading the Library" (2021) at Sitterwerk Foundation in St. Gallen instigating discovery and learning within an educational context aimed at revealing the socially and historically produced orders and hierarchies that underlie library catalogues. This syllabus includes conversations with practitioners and collectives currently working on alternative models proposing de-colonial and feminist methodologies for changing normative concepts of validating, preserving, and making available diverse knowledges. The syllabus will include contributions by Amanda Belantara (US), Emily Drabinski (US), Feminist Search Tools (NL), Infrastructural Manoeuvres (NL, BE), Élodie Mugrefya (Constant, BE), The Rewrite (CH), Nora Schmidt (AT), Femke Snelting (Constant, BE), and Bibliothek Wyborada (CH).