IN SESSION: I Want to Keep the Books

Kathrin Böhm works across interdependent realms of cultural production, including the art world. Her research, writing, organising and constructing supports collective forms of (re-)producing public space, taking back the economy for people and the planet and enabling a new trans-localism that acknowledges the rural. Kathrin teaches and publishes regularly and as a researcher contributes to the wider topics of New Economy, Usership of Art and the Production of Public Space. In 2020 she stopped initiating new projects and engaged in a process of ‘composting’ what she had produced as an artist so far, in order to make ‘fertiliser’ for evolving long-term infrastructures such as The Centre for Plausible Economies c/o Company Drinks and Myvillages’ Rural School of Economics, which includes partners such as Scottish Sculpture Workshop, the Van Abbemuseum and ruangrupa’s ruruhaus in Kassel. Co-edited publications include Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art (2020), The Rural (2019), Learn to Act (2017) and The International Village Show (2015).