### PIRATE CARE INITIAL PLANNING DOCUMENT:
https://hackmd.io/@tomislavmedak/FIO-initial-planning/edit

### PR for the book:
Late 2023 or early 2024
- Clean up Syllabus - check links, references, etc. , finish to upload Ivory stuff (in Rijeka)
- Round of emails / calls with the original contributors to announce the book and discuss potential presentations?
- Clean up social media: FB group, Insta, telegram group, etc..

DAVOR:
- recordings from presentation - what to do? can we get them?

- how to integrate this COST group with FIO? (ex. some of them invited in the research team; Cassie/Max were interested in the exhibition... ) How to plot next COST events?

- Oleg money? (there is some from FIO)

Olga's story and Maria, check with them if ok to include

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## Figure it out

FIO:

* deliverables:
* bonfire events
* audio recordings
* zine
* displaying zine in the exhibition

* schedule:
* meeting with Beatnik: Sep 26, 11:00
* meeting with Labomedia/RYBN: Oct 4, 14:32
* Bonfire (in vicinity of) Belgrade: Sep 16-18
* Bonfire Berlin: Jan 27-28 or Feb 3-4
* Bonfire Orléans: Mar or, likelier, Jun
* TBD: Zrenjanin
* 2024 September: Malta = exhibition (we need to have the Sandpoint ready by then) + symposium
* 2024 October: Rijeka = exhibition + symposium;

COST:

* schedule:
* 2024 workshop
* 2025 workshop
* 2025 conference

* immediate to-do:
* read the FIO Sandpoints
* get in touch with Škart

## Ubu@50

* activities:
- writing retreat
- exhibition

* schedule:
* April: writing retreat
* November 7-12 (Interliber) or December: exhibition

* immediate to-do:

Dear friends,

a couple of weeks back Olga, Dušan and the two of us have met online. We have discussed possible dates for the next writing retreat and how we give more structure to our writing project.

For the writing retreat, we have honed in on April of 2024. The EU project we get funding for is finishing in May, so April would be the last month to do it. In the UK, it's also a semester break. The Cres venue is available almost for all the dates in April. So, let us know your availability throughout April.

For the Ubu@50 publication, what we have written in our first writing retreat is quite esoteric and if we want to have a publication that's accessible to readers, we might need to conceive of it differently.

We still like our Sandpoints triad in which we start with shards, reflect on them in reflections, and build it all together into a mirror. But we also felt something more comprehensible to external readers could inject some fresh start, so the proposal would be the following:

1) Each of us picks one or two key concepts to reflect on what it would take in the political, social, legal, technological terms for shared knowledge and cultural resources such as Ubu, or shadow libraries in general, to survive, thrive and be of benefit to societies in 20 years time;
2) Write up those one or two key concepts in the style of encyclopedia or lexicon entry;
3) Break down each of those key concepts into smaller entries, "building blocks", explaining or defining elements that undergird that larger concept.

An example of a key concept could be, as suggested by Dušan, "permacomputing", which can be undergirded by entries such as "permaculture", "minimal computing", "planned longevity", "preservation"... In the hierarchy of our mirror publication, key concepts would correspond to "reflections" while their undergirding entries to "shards". The length is not set, but when writing we should probably have that external reader in mind.

4) We write these up by February, so that they can be entered on Sandpoints.
5) We arrive to Cres to do final editorialising and write the initial "mirror/Ubu@50" statement.

As for the exhibition, Kenneth has suggested that Duchamps has exhibited some of his opt-art at a tech fair in the 1930s, so we're now exploring options to exhibit our Ubu mirror as an experimental book at the national book/computer fair in Zagreb in November. The mirror of Ubu exhibited could be then copied via a script transferred via a drop-station onto visitors thumb-drives. The script they could run from their thumb-drives would download the rest of the Ubu mirror, including our publication once it's ready for distribution.

Let us know what you think about this plan and particularly about your availability to do the writing beforehand and then to join on Cres.

Dear friends,

finally we are ready to go back to our plans from Cres. As you will be eager to learn, Mate hasn't had a seizure in a long while and, taking regular light medication, his everyday is back to normal. We hope all of you are flourishing and thriving as Mate is.

However, after much time was lost since November, we can not pick up exactly where we left off. We would, thus, like to propose that we reconvene for another writing retreat on Cres in September and spend four focused days writing on our publication and bringing it to completion. The potential timeframe would be between the September 23rd and 30th. A day prior to or a day after convening in Cres, we would also like organize a small conference, most likely in Zagreb, with presentations from all of you. We would like to keep our colleagues in Zagreb/MaMa up to date with our undertakings here in Cres. It's not quite time yet to completly withdraw to the isolation of a beautiful remote island :-) To cut the long story short, let us know your availability over those dates.

That said, we would like us to meet online earlier in order to reboot our conversations, to revisit what was written and figure out what still needs to be written for this publication to make sense conceptually and content-wise. It's a bit of a collective editorial duty that will help us be focused once we meet on Cres. We are aiming for a date in July for this online meeting.

Furthermore, as you will recall, our publication will be a part of a conceptual exhibition incorporating an actual mirror of Ubu doubling as book as well as curated selections from Ubuweb's collection. The initial idea is to exhibit it in a mirror maze at a funfare, if we manage find one in Zagreb or Rijeka. This will happen toward the end of the year, unfortunately in your absence. But this will be the occasion to launch our publication.

We look forward to hearing your response regarding your availability and any suggestions you might have for the process,

Marcell and Tom

## Pirate Care book

* schedule:
* End of August - Beginning of September sumbit first draft

* folder:
* https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1GWqaBuljs9j75b0lGNOjPqtU5PrHUmkw

Dear David,

it seems the bug is everywhere, one of us also caught it recently. We hope that you have fully recovalesced and that the disruption it caused will soon pass. In the meanwhile, we have started to work on the book and feel enthused to be back on our project.

Sandpoints is a collaborative writing and experimental publishing framework that can automatically produce a web and PDF publication integrated with a library of all references in the publication. It preserves the publication texts and the library in easily archivable and durable formats: plaintext and PDF. In that, it reflects our commitment to librarianship and archiving. Sandpoints we have developed for writing our Pirate Care Syllabus (https://syllabus.pirate.care). We have architected and used it, together with the practitioners, to create pedagogical materials that might help pass on the situated knowledges from Pirate Care practices on to intrested activists.

A good example of a full-blown Sandpoints publication is the peer-reviewed academic publication Dotawo - A Journal of Nubian Studies. Two issues have now been edited and published on Sandpoints: https://pages.sandpoints.org/dotawo/journal/. All books and articles referenced in the articles of the two issues are stored in the library: https://pages.sandpoints.org/dotawo/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html. A member of the editorial board of Dotawo, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, who is also editor at Punctum Books, has made an effort to scan and make available all those rare old books and all those articles. Sandpoints as a writing tool helps writers/editors to easily create, in their articles, Chicago Manual of Style-type of references linking to those books and articles. In the last step, Sandpoints generates a PDF of the publication. Vincent distributes Dotawo in PDF format through the journal's traditional channels, including the Punctum web shop -- and can be downloaded from here: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/dotawo-a-journal-of-nubian-studies-7/.

What we would like to do is to publish our book on Sandpoints, so that it includes a library of all the references we will be using: both books and articles, but also documents we have accumulated in our research. We primarily intend it as an enriched, open-ended and always-e web-based book -- and not a PDF publication that we would distribute. What the Sandpoints version of the book looses in terms of readability, it gains in terms of accessing materials and references, so it can be seen as complementary for the readers.

We envision Sandpoints publication functioning as an "exploding view" of the book, illustrating our efforts to capture the writing and publishing processes.

If there's a concern Sandpoints publication could commercially rival Pluto's epub, we must confess our reach is far from any of the commercial publishers. Keeping the process open-ended does not guarantee any citation because of always shifting pagination would ever work. Overall reading experience is more about showcasing of what's possible today in terms of access to materials, collaborative methodology and low-tech frameworks. It's less about reading the actual text and more about discerning the context and underlying politics of the publishing process behind the book. As much as we would like to make Sandpoints publication work better in all of these aspects that goal will likely take a substantial amount of time in the future.

Obviously, the library in Sandpoints is a "shadow" or "pirate" library. This is part and parcel of our practice as amateur librarians. However, we don't want Pluto to be held accountable for that. So, waiving Pluto's claim to web publishing rights should help us achieve this. Also, if you see that as making it easier for Pluto, we could publish the book on Sandpoints half a year or a year after it comes out with Pluto.

We hope this clarifies a bit,

Valeria, Marcell and Tom

## Cres
- writing retreats:
- Ubu@50 pt. 1 and pt. 2
- follow-up s Hedwig

## Cres August 18 -23 Institutiona Analysis with Goldsmiths

## Roma3

* Follow up with Pantxo about Roma3

## Slow burner:

* Oleg and Mars to advance the Snadpoint (money???)

SCHEDULE:
- 29th: meeting with Sanja and Nataša, get back to Kim, get back to Giulia
- 30th: 10-14 Stuttgart students, get back to Kim
- 1st: meet Felix, Tom leaves for Zagreb, 21 Kim
- 2st: 10-14 Stuttgart students

# Grant proposals:
* Uses of Archives:
* send in the description of activities: June 25th
* meeting: June 28th at 1pm or 29th at 1pm
* meeting Pantxo on the way back to Rijeka on June 26th
* meeting Laurance on June 28th 10:30
* activities:
* 1) course in archiving: we develop it in the first phase of the project with l'ERG, Sanja & Nataša, in the second phase we test-run the course in a workshop format to do an archive of the academy (fees/salaries 3000€ x 6 people + travel costs = 20000€)
* 2) experimental publication with Pantxo ()
* 3) workshops in activating archives (activation: collection as intervention, experimental publishing on top of an archive, distributed digitisation and archiving, passing on the archive...) (fee 750€ + travel 300€ x 2 moderators per workshop + 5 writers fees 200€ = 3050€, if we do 3 workshops in the project then it's 9150€)
* 4) development of sandpoints (in kind, 11250€/year)
* description: https://hackmd.io/@tomislavmedak/HyyMYYg2O/edit

* Volkswagen foundation:
* meeting: June 23rd 10am with Bojana

* Creative Europe with MI2:
* send in the description (Ubu exhibition, Ubu experimental publication, software development):

# Meetings:

# Exhibitions:
* Get along comrade
* Pirate Care meeting Ana Dević
* Paper Struggles in Rijeka

# Book:

# Moise

# Calasetta
Starting from the fragments of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks and Southern Question, during our summer school in Calasetta together with the participants we wish to explore collective strategies that people in precarious situations devise to cope and get along with the degradation of their environment, lack of access to essential resources, and social exclusion. Building on the experience and the technological framework of our Pirate Care Syllabus — the project in which we have explored the disobedient organising of care emerging in response to the neoliberal austerity, negligence and criminalisation of care, during our six-day encounter we are proposing to collectively create a notebook of our own. In our notebook we will be writing down thoughts from our discussions, contributions by and interviews with other participants, speakers and members of the Calasetta community, as well as our annotations to a selection of Gramsci's fragments dealing with the issues of exploitation, extraction and unequal exchange operate. We will build a digital library of textual references complementing our discussions and writing. The notebook will be our iterative experimental publication, functioning as a website changing on a daily basis and a ready-to-print pamphlet that will document our work and communicate it through riso-graphed communiqués to the local community.

**March**:
- Pirate Care book: organize second chat - V
- Update website w recent talks/texts? V

**February**:

- Pirate Care book: organize a first chat w Kim? V
-

- Ding
- workshop Academy of Drama Arts
- Workshop for Josh & co. Media Migration and Ecology
- workshop Berlin,
- podcast MaMa
- Soundings
- talk by Mercell w DAvor
- Art Forum
- Art Monthly
- Neural
- Iliana? https://www.e-flux.com/journal/113/359463/the-bureau-of-care-introductory-notes-on-the-care-less-and-care-full/

- Systematize Corona Notes

Winter Update +

https://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/session/piratecareinreferences/

CASH FLOW FROM PIRATE CARE:
- MASKA@100 Conference - 300 EUR (T)
- DING! Magazine/Goethe Institut - 500 EUR (T)
- ACUD MACHT NEU - 250 EUR (T)
- DISRUPTION NETWORK LAB panel - 150 EUR (T)
- DISRUPTION NETWORK LAB workshop - 200 EUR (V)
- ADU workshop/talk - 200 EUR (T)
- HET NEIUW INSTITUUT - 250 EUR (M)
- GRAND (Re)UNION panel - 170 EUR (T)

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old months:

**January**:
- text for Soundings
- possibly application for "Krizne prakse" for Fund for Active Citizenship

**November 2020**:
- 4th call with Tamara Visković to do a screening, exhibition and a talk in Split next year
- 19th text for DING! Magazine/Goethe Institut (6000 char, they offer €500)
- 24th talk/worskhop for the Academy of Drama Arts
- get back to Katalin and Livia from Sezonieri
- revising "Flatten the Curve", revising the rest of the Syllabus
- Podcast for MaMa

V+M
-Involve Morana for 16th
-V to write to ILiana

Pirate Care - Organising Solidarity amid the Pandemic

(v: maybe: Disobedient chains of care: organizing solidarity with agricultural workers, live-in carers, migrants and tenats)
https://syllabus.pirate.care

Pirate Care is a transnational research project and a network of activists, practitioners and scholars who stand against the criminalization of solidarity & for a common care infrastructure. We wish to map and connect collective practices that are emerging in response to the neoliberal "crisis of care" — a convergence of processes that include austerity, wellfare cuts, rollback of reproductive rights and criminalisation of migration. In response to that denial of care, imposed by the states and the markets, practices we have called pirate care are organising to help migrants survive at sea and on land, provide pregnancy terminations where those are illegal, offer health support where institutions fail, self-organise childcare where public provision does not extend to everyone, liberate knowledge where access is denied. Crucially, they share a willingness to openly disobey laws and executive orders, and politicise that disobedience to contest the institutional status quo. Our aim is to foster collective learning processes from the situated knowledges of these practices and together with the practitioners of pirate care we have been working on a collaboratively-written Pirate Care Syllabus.

In this panel we will focus on organising solidarity amid the pandemic to support the migrant workers in agriculture and live-in care, migrants excluded from the borders of European union and tenants under the threat of eviction. Starting from there, we wish to discuss larger implications of the present moment on collective organising, as well as the societal provision of care.

With:

Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak (Pirate Care)

Katalin Erdődi (Sezonieri), Flavia Mattei (DREPT), Ana Vilenica (Roof/Radical Housing Journal Collective)

V Versions:

Dear everyone,
We hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer.

Four of us (Davor, Marcell, Tomi, Valeria) recently met in person for the first time after our Rijeka workshop. As we revisited the contributions in our shared document, we were reminded of how much material - how diverse and rich - has already been gathered. However, this material serves as the foundation for what lies ahead.

Starting from the autumn, we will start with the collection of first-hand accounts of tinkering practices from various constituencies. Our partner organizations in the other CreativeEU project of Drugo More are actively reaching out to a number of communities with whom they have ongoing relationships and commitments. This "fieldwork" component shall bring a different register to our experimental zine.

In parallel to this, our wish would be that we continue, together wiht you all, to develop the theoretical framework of the research. We would like to delve deeper into questions of ethics, methodologies, and poetics necessary to approach practices of "Snađi se, druže" and make them politically powerful and inspiring beyond their original locales.

To accomplish this, we suggest reconvening in bi-monthly sessions starting in September (exact date to be confirmed). These virtual gatherings will allow us to explore these questions further, collaborate on editing the materials, and share relevant texts and resources to expand our library.

We understand that everyone has busy schedules and may not be able to commit to these sessions. However, you will still receive updates regarding any changes to the materials. We will provide instructions on how to access the repository, and we assure you that no part of the zine will be made public without consulting with all of you. The expected date of publication is September 2024, coinciding with an exhibition and symposium in Malta and Rijeka.

We will revive the Telegram channel "Institutional Tinkering" (if you're not on it, follow this link: https://t.me/+Kh3BIY6LYtI4MzM0) to facilitate communication and share announcements and updates with each other.

It is important to acknowledge that there are financial implications to this invitation to continue our collective work. We are committed to utilizing funding opportunities to compensate for your contributions, and we also plan to reconvene in person at a later stage of this project.

Looking forward to your thoughs and questions.
In solidarity,
Davor, Marcell, Tomislav, Valeria

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Dear all,
we hope everyone is thriving.

The three of us have reconvened in these last days for the first time after our Rijeka workshop. Going back into our shared document and revisiting everyone's contributions reminded us of how much material - and how diverse and rich - was already brought in. However, these are just the foundations for what lies ahead.

Starting from autumn, we will begin to collect and add first-hand accounts of tinkering practices from the various communities and constitutuencies that our partner organisations (in the other CreativeEU project of Drugo More) are reaching out to on their own accord. This is the "fieldwork" component that will contribute a different register to our experimental Zine.

In parallel to this, we would like to propose to you a plan to continue to develop together a theoretical framework for the research, delving deeper into questions of ethics, methodologies, and poetics needed to approach practices of "Snađi se, druže" and to render them politically useble and inspiring beyond the locales that generated them.

To do this, our suggestion is, starting in September (exact date tbc), to begin to reconvene in bi-monthly sessions. During these virtual gatherings we will further explore these questions, edit the materials together, maybe share some texts to read and other new resources to keep growing the library.

We fully understand that everyone has busy schedules and might not be able to commit to these sessions. You will still be able to to stay updated with any changes to the materials (we will share instrutions on how to access the repository) and we won't be making any part of the zine public before consulting with you first (the expected date of publication is September 2024, when it should be presented in the context of an exhibition and symposium in Malta and Rijeka).

We will also revive the Telegram channel "Institutional Tinkering" to share announcements and updates with each other.

There are obvious material implications to this invitation to continue our collective work and we are committed to using funding opportunities as they will become available to compensate said work and also to reconvene again in co-presence at a later stage of this project.

--- Materialities