Feral Business

Monetary Experiment with Artist and trader Kate Rich.

To stand against the forcefields of business as usual, we need some radical tricks, acts and altered forms of confidence. Join a crowd of your peers for a hands-on experiment in summoning, adjudicating and disseminating funding. This experimental gameplay is designed to intervene directly in the infrastructural dramas of how we bankroll our work, with real resources and relations at play. A venture into radmin, or radical administration, this is also an opportunity to get out of our own patterns or habits and into different ones. Today's proceedings are not supplied as best practice, or a model for anything. Instead the interest is to stage (with care) spiky issues in dealing with money, and mobilise conditions in which other forms of thinking and action could take root.

We are operating this event on a pay-as-you-feel basis. All money raised through ticket sales will be donated to Pay the Rent and the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.

The suggested ticket price for this panel is $15

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Kate Rich (AU/UK) works as an artist in the seams of business, trade and administration. In 2003 she founded Feral Trade, a grocery import-export business, art endeavour and underground freight network, using the spare carrying capacity of existing movements to transport coffee, olive oil and other vital goods. Feral Trade takes as its icon the common urban pigeon which makes an opportunistic yet flourishing livelihood in and amongt sometimes hostile systems. Kate is system administrator for the Irational.org art server collective, a researcher with the Community Economies Institute, and feral economist in residence with the Sail Cargo Alliance, a new assembly of traders, brokers and ship owners working across Europe and globally to revive the ancient art of running cargo on wind-propelled ships. In 2019 she co-convened RADMIN, Britain's first festival of Administration, and is slowly setting up the Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX), a lab for investigating new and wild shapes for business that could fit a radically different world.