Kate Rich and Radical Administration

For this episode I had a conversation with artist, trader, and researcher Kate Rich. We discussed ‘feral trade’, an international grocery business set up by Kate, for which her traveling (art world) friends and acquaintances act as couriers. We then talked about ‘radmin’, a long-term effort to radicalize the administrative work that’s always there, but usually remains in the background, even in social art practices.

Links & References

Feral Trade website: https://feraltrade.org

2013 interview about Feral Trade: https://www.wired.com/2013/07/whats-new-with-kate-rich-and-feral-trade

Katherine Gibson and Kate Rich, ‘Feral Trade: Taking back Markets for People and the Planet’: https://unlikely.net.au/issue-1/feral-trade

Radmin Reader 2020: https://fo.am/publications/radmin-reader-2020

Article by FoAM-founders: https://www.designdecode.org/maja-kuzmanovic-nik-gaffney Article about the Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX):https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/grey-skies-thinking

For 2024-2027, Kate is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Brave New Alps (Italy), where her research centres on the everyday work of administration as a regularly overlooked place for critical, creative and collective practice: https://titipi.org/frictions

About

Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises, published by the Institute of Network Cultures and Caradt. The podcast hosts are Candela Cubria and Sepp Eckenhaussen. This episode was recorded in Brussels, in a studio generously offered by Rune Peitersen and Level Five Cooperative.