An aural investigation of the socio-historic construction of library practices, Sounding the Radical Catalog amplifies the oft-invisible work of catalogers and archivists. As these workers order the bibliographic universe piece by piece, they implement–or resist–dominant ways of understanding the world. Sounding the Radical Catalog captures the complexities of cataloging; sharing the voices of activist librarians, who through their practice challenge the narrow articulation of gender, sex, identity, class and the colonialist visions embedded in library classification schemes. Presented at SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019 organized by the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), University of the Arts, London.
Catalogers at Work 