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DOGWALK is an artist-run​ publisher and platform for artistic research, slow journalism, and socially engaged practices based in Sweden, Denmark, and The Netherlands. Our collective consists of Tina Enghoff, Kent Klich, and Anastasija (Nastija) Kiake.

We dedicate this space to relational approaches to making, thinking, and sharing as a commitment to an ecology of care.

Our body is a soft and liquid corresponding matter endlessly colliding with something, someone, somewhere while dissolving the border of the I within the porous time running against the calendar like the chaos of the poetry of everything that we can barely grasp.

In other words, this space is never fully accomplished or fixed to a solid form, it’s rather an open invitation for the matter that we are moved by in all possible interpretations of the phrase.

Currently, we are focused on publishing on themes, among others, revolving around archival practices, mobility justice, translingualism, collaboration, and care.

DOGWALK Platform’s visual form is a result of our collective wishes as founders and initial participants, often articulated with excitement over warm meals. We don’t consider this visual character to be a strategically cemented “identity”, but rather an open tool box. Therefore, we expect it to grow new and other features, layouts and personalities as we exchange knowledge with you.
 
DOGWALK Platform engages with design in the communication tools that it applies, but also as a topic in itself. When platforming various socially engaged practises, it’s crucial to notice how there is an element of design in every practice, movement and piece of culture, just like how every world is told through stories and built with many intentions.
 
We acknowledge the tensions and contradictions that come from DOGWALK Platform’s format: an archive, a curated gallery, a piece of web design. For example, we want to go against the general assumption in design that people necessarily bring a minimal attention span when they seek experiences and knowledge on the internet. The platform’s design comes from believing in the readers’ engagement, investment and genuine interest. At the same time, it has been most important to ensure a generous form of communication within an inviting and hospitable visual environment. Finding the balance means continuously negotiating the conventions of design and archiving—making.

Website and design statement are composed by Nicolai Schmelling