msdm as platform
msdm operates for me as a para-institutional platform: not a collective, not a publisher in the conventional sense, and not a research centre hosted by an institution. it grows out of lived practice — artistic, editorial, and pedagogical — and remains deliberately mobile, provisional, and reconfigurable.
i situate msdm among artistic practices that mobilise publishing, archival fiction, and support structures as critical methods. it resonates with editorial practices that understand circulation as an ethical gesture, with approaches that treat the archive as unstable and fabulated, and with work that recognises care, maintenance, and support as political forms. however, msdm is not organised around individual authorship, nor does it aspire to institutional stability.
instead, it functions as a platform for infrastructural experimentation: a space where publishing, pedagogy, archival work, and technology are treated as relational and situated practices. i do not seek to replace existing infrastructures, but to inhabit their gaps — creating temporary counter-infrastructures grounded in care, relation, listening, and deviation.
within msdm, publishing is understood as a spatial and temporal practice; teaching becomes an infrastructural gesture; the archive is mutable and participatory; and technology is something to be handled critically rather than mastered. i work through friction with institutions — galleries, universities, curatorial programmes — without seeking scale, consolidation, or permanence.
msdm exists in this in-between space: not outside institutions, but not captured by them either. it operates through continuous misalignment, refusing efficiency, optimisation, and total legibility as values. it is within this unstable terrain that i find conditions for editorial, artistic, and pedagogical practices oriented toward care, responsibility, and political imagination.