For
engaging with the hierarchies of knowledge that inhabit our bookshelves, reading practices and search movements in (digital) library environments;
making the backend of the catalogue, its biases and omissions visible.
With the purpose
of developing tools that allow for intersectional search.
In contact
with the Bibliothek Wyborada, a women’s library and Fonothek founded in 1986 in St.Gallen, for their intervention to investigate the holdings of Sitterwerk’s Kunstbibliothek collection from a feminist perspective. During a one-week workshop Wyborada and affiliates (Karin Bühler, Marina Schütz, Ruth Erat and Sibylle Omlin) discussed and debated the need for a feminist, non-hierarchical library catalogue and for a new approach to keywords and search vocabularies. See the video documenting this intervention and the reports resulting from it.
with Feminist Search Tools, an artistic research project (Netherlands) who talked to us about their work on developing tools, platforms and conversations on what intersectional search could be. Feminist Search Tools workgroup is a collective of collectives: Read-in (Svenja Engels, Annette Krauss, Laura Pardo), Hackers & Designers, (Anja Groten, André Fincato, Heerko van der Kooij, and previous member James Bryan Graves), Ola Hassanain, Aggeliki Diakrousi and Alice Strete.