Description
Display Distribute’s sporadic serial 『CATALOGUE』 began as a marketing tool, introducing ‘semi-autonomous’ publications that are supported and distributed by the Display Distribute distro and its partnering LIGHT LOGISTICS network. Appropriating itself as a medium for other forms of knowledge dissemination and propagandising, 『CATALOGUE』 has developed over the course of several issues to encompass a mail-order catalogue, readers’ digest, and variety journal, all featured together alongside posted wares and advertorial material. Content is conflated with its means of circulation.
The fifth issue of 『CATALOGUE』 expands Display Distribute’s affinity for the detritus of commerce, otherwise known as the ‘backbones of capitalism’, also otherwise known as ‘shop-like structures’. Interviews with artist collectives and community-led practices including Baan Noorg (TH), Wakaliwood (UG), Biquini Wax (MX), and Take-a-Way (NL) expand upon various ways of experimenting with the transaction as a form of creative, socioeconomic practice. Two additional conversations amidst members of the School of Improper Education (ID) and the Solidarity Economics Study Group (international) hone in on accessory questions of survival, joy, and skill amidst precarity and unrest.
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