—defunct context

Taking its roots from the immediacy of the pin-board culture historically used for collaborative research and peer review, —defunct context’s publishing embraces narrative making and self-published Pamphlets as infrastructures crucial for occupying a contemporaneous space and to resist ongoing marginalisation associated with colonialism and capitalism.

The use of raw and immediate formats such as Risograph printing and making pamphlets is particularly aimed at recovering one’s capacity to publicly contribute their narrative without complicated infrastructures. This practice forms part of eliminating institutional gatekeeping thus, making the dissemination of text immediate and democratic. Working in tandem with our residencies, these print outputs function as physical extensions of the platform's ongoing research.

By engaging the printed page as an open and rapidly iterative canvas rather than a finalised monument, this practice becomes an active site for publishing justice, allowing neglected scholarship to circulate freely without structural barriers.

––defunct context: An Ambivalence to Important Work

––defunct context: An Ambivalence to Important Work

The monograph boasts a mix of digital and Risograph printed material on a multitude of papers, spanning many different colours, sizes and texture. Image wise, it brings together personal iPhone photographs; scanned archival documents; exhibition documentations; science images, screen grabs from social media; process documentation; oral invocations and different modes of architectural plans. While the wider project presents different iterations and versions on my project and is clearly presented with my name, it also hosts other contributors, collaborators, and several years of student engagement with the wider project, establishing me as a convener of this defunct context. The convened protagonists are peers who are engaged in similar practices, who share not just overlapping research areas, but also a thirst for independence in publishing and presentation forms. They also reinforce the gaps in my own practices as I do theirs, allowing for a better picture of our collective practice to emerge. To a degree these functions as a form of peer review built into the publication in a way that a group exhibition might do.

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