# Pirate Care Vienna - short texts

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We live in a world where captains get arrested for saving people’s lives on the sea; where a person downloading scientific articles faces 35 years in jail; where people risk charges for bringing contraceptives to those who otherwise couldn’t get them. Folks are getting in trouble for giving food to the poor, medicine to the sick, water to the thirsty, shelter to the homeless. And yet our heroines care and disobey. They are pirates.

Pirate Care is a research process that maps the increasingly present forms of activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, which in new and interesting ways are trying to intervene in one of the most important challenges of our time, that is, the ‘crisis of care’ in all its multiple and interconnected dimensions.

These practices are experimenting with self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools, technologies and knowledges. Often they act disobediently in expressed non-compliance with laws, regulations and executive orders that and ciriminalise the duty of care by imposing exclusions along the lines of class, gender, race or territory. They are not shying risk of persecution in providing unconditional solidarity to those who are the most exploited, discriminated against and condemned to the status of disposable populations.

The Pirate Care Syllabus we present here for the first time is a tool for supporting and activating collective processes of learning from these practices. Inspired by the recent phenomenon of crowdsourced #syllabi generated within social justice movements, in November 2019 we held a writing retreat hosted by Drugo More (HR) to create the first version. The different topics covered were written by practitioners active across a number of pressing issues, including: feminist approaches to reproductive healthcare; autonomous mental health support; trans health and well-being; free access to knowledge; housing struggles; collective childcare; the right to free mobility; migrant solidarity; community safety and anti-racist organising. New sessions are to be developed and activated here with new collaborators during our residency at *studio das weisse haus* in cooperation with Kunsthalle Wien (March-April 2020).

Work on syllabus is the extension of the Memory of the World shadow library and it espouses a certain technopolitics. We have developed an online publishing framework allowing collaborative writing, remixing and maintaining of the syllabus. We want the syllabus to be ready for easy preservation and come integrated with a well-maintained and catalogued collection of learning materials. To achieve this, our syllabus is built from plaintext documents that are written in a very simple and human-readable Markdown markup language, rendered into a static HTML website that doesn’t require a resource-intensive and easily breakable database system, and which keeps its files on a git version control system that allows collaborative writing and easy forking to create new versions. Such a syllabus can be then equally hosted on an internet server and used/shared offline from a USB stick.

In 2020, the Pirate Care Syllabus will be activated through an exhibition (June) and a summer camp (September) as part of the Rijeka European Capital of Culture 2020 (HR).

The syllabus can be downloaded here in the exhibition through the QR code provided or by accessing the website https://syllabus.pirate.care

Pirate Care is facilitated by: Valeria Graziano ｜ Marcell Mars ｜ Tomislav Medak

Syllabus by: Laura Benítez Valero｜Emina Bužinkić ｜ Rasmus Fleischer｜ Maddalena Fragnito ｜Valeria Graziano ｜ Mary Maggic ｜Iva Marčetić｜Memory of the World｜Power Makes Us Sick (PMS)｜Zoe Romano ｜Ivory Tuesday ｜Ana Vilenica

Contributors in Vienna: Faris Cuchi ｜ Marty Huber ｜ Mary Maggic ｜Sea-Watch ｜ Cassie Thorton ｜ Women on Waves

# Online announcment for the residnecy programme:

Pirate Care Syllabus, public programme

Convenors: Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Contributors: Rebecca Gomperts (Women on Waves), Sea-Watch, Cassie Thornton, and others

Pirate Care Syllabus on display in the exhibition will be accompanied by a program inviting the public to join practitioners in activating the syllabus by learning together about and from the practices of Pirate Care. We will learn about struggles against cirminalisation of migration, sturggles for reproductive rights of women, community safety and anti-racist organising, environmental toxicity and transfeminist hacking, digital piracy and other urgent practices of unconditional solidarity and responses to the crisis of care.

Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the criminalization of solidarity & for a common care infrastructure. The project maps and fosters bottom-up responses to the current ‘care crisis’. Those projects are experimenting with forms of self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools.
Often these initiatives take risks by operating in the narrow grey zones left open between different social norms, institutions and laws, questioning current trends such as total bureaucratization, privatization of services and workfare regimes.

## Exhibition Catalogue

FINAL VERSION:

Pirate Care Syllabus

Convenors: Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Contributors: Laura Benítez Valero, Emina Bužinkić, Rasmus Fleischer, Maddalena Fragnito, Valeria Graziano, Mary Maggic, Iva Marčetić, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Power Makes Us Sick (PMS), Zoe Romano, Ivory Tuesday, Ana Vilenica.

Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the criminalization of solidarity & for a common care infrastructure. The project maps and fosters bottom-up responses to the current ‘care crisis'. Pirate care practices are experimenting with forms of self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools. Often these initiatives take risks by operating in the narrow grey zones left open between different social norms, institutions and laws, questioning current trends such as total bureaucratization, privatization of services and workfare regimes.

Pirate Care also aims to activate collective learning processes from the situated knowledges developed in the context of these practices. Inspired by the recent phenomenon of crowdsourced #syllabi generated within social justice movements, in November 2019, we held a writing retreat hosted by Drugo More (HR) to create the first version of a Pirate Care Syllabus.

The syllabus was drafted by practitioners active across a number of pressing and interconnected issues, including feminist approaches to reproductive healthcare; autonomous mental health support; trans health and well-being; free access to knowledge; housing struggles; collective childcare; the right to free mobility; migrant solidarity; community safety and anti-racist organising. Many more areas of concern are not represented here, but this is a start.

The syllabus was developed on an online publishing platform allowing collaborative writing, remixing and maintaining a catalog of learning resources.

The syllabus can be downloaded here in the exhibition through the QR code provided or by accessing the website https://syllabus.pirate.care

In 2020, the Pirate Care Syllabus will be activated through an exhibition (June) and a summer camp (September) as part of the Rijeka European Capital of Culture 2020 (HR).

Alternative version:

Pirate Care Syllabus

Initiators: Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak
Contributors: Laura Benítez Valero, Emina Bužinkić, Rasmus Fleischer, Maddalena Fragnito, Mary Maggic, Iva Marčetić, Power Makes Us Sick (PMS), Zoe Romano, Ivory Tuesday, Ana Vilenica.

Pirate Care is a transnational project connecting activists, scholars and practitioners working on the collective practices of care that are emerging in reponse to the current 'crisis of care': wellfare cuts, austerity & criminalisation of migration and solidarity. These initiatives are experimenting with forms of self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools. Often they take risks by operating in the grey zones between different institutions or openly disobeying laws, countering punitive regimes of neoliberalisation, bureaucratization, securitisation, privatization and workfare.

Pirate Care also aims to activate collective learning processes from the situated knowledge from these practices. Inspired by the recent phenomenon of crowdsourced #syllabi generated within social justice movements, in November 2019 we organised a writing retreat hosted by Drugo More (HR) to create the first version of a Pirate Care Syllabus.

The syllabus was drafted by contributors active in feminist approaches to reproductive healthcare, autonomous mental health support, trans health and well-being, free access to knowledge, housing struggles, collective childcare, migrant solidarity, community safety and anti-racist organising. The topics presented here are just a start.

The syllabus lives on an online publishing framework allowing collaborative writing, remixing and maintaining of a catalog of learning resources. It can can be copied by using a USB stick or accessed via the QR code / link.

In 2020, the Pirate Care Syllabus will be activated through an exhibition (17 June – 1 July) and a summer camp (September) as part of the Rijeka European Capital of Culture 2020 (HR).

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- what was good in retreat
- community safety (Cassie & Ivory), piracy, refugees (Emina), housing (Ana & Iva)
- what do we have to finish for exhibition/camp
- how do we approach the question of pedagogy
- what are the angles
- what/whom are we missing: environment
- how do we

- for the exhibition:

OUR PROPOSALS:

1) Launch of Syllabus: conference/colloquium - type event, maybe focused on one theme w guest speakers (ex. Pirate Care in Migration: with Sea-Watch, Emina, Maiz or other local networks...)

2 ) +MAYBE... Put the Syllabus on display / distribution in the exhibition (take this as a deadline to launch the PC syllabus)

3) Activate a couple of syllabi: Cassie & Ivory, Mary?, Women on Waves...
Maybe Environment is still missing / Eric Duran ?
(+ maybe write a couple of syllabi w the new people: Sea-Watch, Women on Waves...)
Question for them: WHO ARE THE LOCAL GROUPS? Match making via Andrea and Sabina

4) Commission a pedagogist/s to work with us in the final edits of the syllabus? Writing a statement with a closed doors workshop with pedagogists (Andrea, Nora & Beatrice networks...?)- This will be a segment of the Syllabus on how to make syllabi...

- who is in vienna/austria: Mary, Marlies, Nora, Felix, MAIZ (Migrant sex workers group, based in Linz I think), Franziska from Sea-Watch

Julian Oliver infrastructures for rebellion
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11008-server_infrastructure_for_global_rebellion
Enric Duran
Tadzio Müller / Ende Gelände
John Jordan
Open Source Seed Initiative (LISA HAMILTON, or others)
https://osseeds.org/
Open Source Ecology (OSE) https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

http://trainingforthefuture.org/ - Women on Waves

https://pad.riseup.net/p/pirate-care-rijeka-keep