NOMA Sari-sari
NOMA Sari-sari
Tuesday, July 29 @ 14h
Casino for Social Medicine
Sonnenallee 100
12045 Berlin
(U7 Rathaus Neukölln)
A sari-sari corner shop is a ubiquitous small convenience store found in Filipino neighborhoods. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety" or "sundry." Our sari-sari is a small, abundant, ever-changing convenience stand found at the corner of our shared digital kiez. It hosts our resources the way a sari-sari cradles sweets, jars, rice by the scoop, single cigarettes, sachets of shampoo, love notes, and Tita’s gossip. It is stocked with tiny and big things alike: recipes, notes, codes, playlists, jokes, diagrams, old tales, new protocols. It is filled with a lively clutter and is a place of proximity, trust, repetition, and surprise – a colorful corner shop of our shared lives and knowledges.
But this sari-sari doesn’t fill itself. So, we hold NOMA Potluck gatherings – regular moments where we come together to feast, chat, and each bring an offering to place on the sari-sari shelves including our NOMA Wiki, a self-hosted, wiki-to-print platform for sharing resources, knowledge, space, equipment, time, wisdom, and care; and our NOMA Berlin Events Calendar, a federated, self-organized, socio-cultural and political community calendar.
In this sari-sari parastructure, the mesh network is a paracommon, a material resource of decentralized technical devices. Like an enoki mushroom with many needles that grows/parasites on the walls of the NOMA sari-sari, Mesh networks are as well as mycelic parapractices (gestures and protocols to transport information, feelings, embodied movements) that form pararelations, socially fruiting meshroom-bodies with and in-between communities where many things can be lent and shared. Our Enoki Meshroom reclaims and relearns technologies as locally situated and embodied movements of resistance, while Slurrrplus feeds the ecosystem with ongoing research on commons and surplus production and a Liquidarity Savings Fund bubbles up to support local organisers, communities and mutual aid efforts. Please join us to learn more!
Schedule
14-19h: Sari-sari Open House
an informal introduction to NOMA tools
16h: NOMA Potluck
a shared library seeding and feeding practice
Please bring your offerings!
19h: NOMA Presentations
a presentation of NOMA tools and ongoing efforts
followed by dinner, drinks and music
Additionally, NOMA is pleased to present the launch of the Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit (PPDPT) zine. Post-Platform Digital Publishing Toolkit is a project exploring how to overcome the limitations of digital publishing today and advocates self-hosting methods for artists and artists' book publishers. The project started as a documentation of Well Gedacht Publishing's quest to break free from the ever-enshittifying products, services, and platforms run by the oligarchic big tech and move towards self-hosting data, websites, and services. The wiki features guides on how to self-host static websites and online services at home, create your own RSS feeds, and use the open source tool Pandoc to convert rich text files to HTML. For more information, see: https://publishing.wellgedacht.com/
