Legal, Extralegal, I am Somehow

Arts of the Working Class is a multilingual publishing program at the intersection of art, society, poverty and wealth. Sold on the streets, vendors keep 100% of the revenues.

The Languages We Don’t Yet Have

Havîn Al-Sîndy, Céline Semaan, and Payam Sharifi in conversation with Hanno Hauenstein on translation, embodied memory, and the power to name experience.

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Letters from Workers: SURVIVAL POETRY

Scaling the catastrophe of COVID-19 on the workers of the cultural sector

Reconsidered: Dhaka Art Summit 2020

Berlin-based artist and writer Sumugan Sivanesan is concerned with how a focus on collective organisation at the recent Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh, belies how power is enacted and distributed in such major contemporary art events. Himali Singh Soin, 'we are opposite like that polar futurisms', 2017-2019,

Conversation: (T)errors of utopia

How to escape (or immerse yourself into) conflictual political imaginaries.

Don't Stop Sharing

AWC in the time of COVID-19

Unedited: Artists in Quarantine

Collected Stories of Creativity in Isolation

Contra-Internet

1. Killing the Internet On January 28, 2011, only a few days after protests had broken out in Egypt demanding the overthrow of then president Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian government terminated national access to the internet. This state-sponsored shutdown became known as flipping the internet’s “kill switch.” The