#ungovernable
Ungovernable Study explores and rehearses practices of noncooperation and collectivitization that look to undermine imperial modes of order, time, and history.
Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY), Spring 2025
Ungovernable Study, a new initiative that will unravel throughout 2025/2026, engages the possibilities of ungovernability as divergent modes of being, feeling, making, and unmaking that inherently undermine the imperial world order. Through publishing conversations, artistic research, and facilitating spaces of study, the project surfaces seemingly contradictory yet interwoven threads of ungovernability. The first iteration of the project took place at Printed Matter’s project space in Spring 2025 and corresponds with our newest resource library open call. Future iterations of the project are forthcoming. ︎︎
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The project weaves together learnings that evolve through collective processes of building and sustaining networks of collective care that imperial and colonial regimes were never designed to provide, alongside manifold personal reflections on actions and inactions that antagonize, disorder, refuse, and unveil the violence embedded in so-called “law and order.” Across a series of independent activations and partnerships, Ungovernable Study aims to take account of the embodied underpinnings of collective life-sustaining practices and efforts at building popular power presently taking shape within the imperial core.
Ungovernable Study is edited by CLPP Steward kimi malka hanauer and produced with CLPP Assistant Editor, Anna Cho-Son. Please stay tuned for more information on this series as it slowly emerges this year!
If you’d like to get involved with the project, please email us at liberatorypractice@gmail.com to initiate the discussion ~ we’re happy to move into Signal or other encrypted methods of communication as needed.
Images by Ally Caple.︎
