Shop Talk: Making It Work

​A talk on practicing collective work, and the parts and labors of collective publishing, with Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work (Providence), tangled stream (Providence), and BULK Space (Detroit).

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​BULK Publications is the publishing arm of our creative ecosystem—a space for radical thought, artistic experimentation, and critical discourse rooted in community knowledge and collective authorship. Our publications span printed matter, digital essays, zines, toolkits, and experimental media, serving as both a platform and an archive for the work generated within and beyond the BULK network.

​Clare Gatto is an artist, educator, and arts organizer living and working in Detroit, MI. Their practice is rooted in speculative worldbuilding, exploring potentials through the use and generative misuse of new technologies. Gatto earned a BFA from Ohio State University and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2025, they presented their first museum show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. They have attended artist residencies at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Velferden Scene (Norway), among others. Gatto is a recipient of Culture Sources 2023 Creators of Culture and Flourish Fund. They currently serve as Co-Director of BULK Space alongside Meg Kelley, jes allie, and Jova Lynne.

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​tangled stream is an emergent print and publishing collective of friends Vic Xu, MJ Sanqui, Felicita Devlin, Hayley Canal, and Audrey Buhain. Originally taking form as an open studio and group show, we realized resonances across our work in the process of installation. We named the show and our continued collaboration tangled stream because of our fluidly entangled ways of thinking. Overlapping in Providence but coming from distinct diasporas and queer/brown modalities produces portals between our works that morph and blur. Themes intertwining our work include plant lineages, diasporic identity, queer and alternative ecologies, personal archives, and material memory. Our practices span photography, poetry and writing, textiles, printmaking, and papermaking under the expanse of experimental publishing. This iteration of our collaboration is a self-publishing collective, where collaborative publishing projects and printed multiples from our individual practices are presented together, continuing the lines of resonance across what we all make.

​Since 2021, Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work is a cooperative print & publishing studio on occupied Narragansett land, in Providence, RI. The studio is a Queer / Trans community space and library of zines, books, and objects, collectively operated by its dedicated membership.

​Felicita Velazquez-Devlin is a Puerto Rican-Irish artist and researcher from South Florida, based in Providence, RI. They are a Studio Manager Member of Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work. Their work shapeshifts between photography, collage, printmaking, textiles, sound, and remixing digital art. They are often found spiraling through photos, videos, and zines on the public domain and at libraries.

​MJ Sanqui is a Filipino artist, writer, & designer from Western NC currently living and working on unceded Narragansett land, colonially known as Providence, RI. Their practice exists across intersections between experimental publishing and contemporary craft; they fluidly appropriate print, paper, photography, text, video, and the book form to explore the entropic entanglements of personal and collective histories, ruderal ecologies, and remediated archives. MJ is often preoccupied with questions about the meaning imbued in material and the possibilities of anticapitalist techno-craft worldbuilding. MJ was one of the 2024 - 2025 artists in residence at the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve on Prudence Island. They are a former resident and current member of the Binch Press Queer.Archive.Work studio, a co-organizer of the QueerTrans Zine Fest, and a triple water sign.

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​FORTUNE presents: PRINT TIME AFTER TIME, a weekend-long gathering around print — its methods, its practices, its manifold lives, afterlives, and half-lives. Focusing on publishers and printshops with liberatory work models; print projects led by queer, trans, BIPOC artists; both local standbys and traveling acts — PRINT TIME AFTER TIME offers workshops and panels, and closes with a book fair featuring collectively operated print projects and presses.

​We hope to ask: How can print learn from, and leverage, its archives? Why do analog print forms continue to matter, in all the material and labor of their assembly? How can print continue to meet its publics, with intention? What can self-publishing as a collective practice teach us, time after time?

​For more PRINT TIME AFTER TIME events, view our calendar here.

​PRINT TIME AFTER TIME will take place at Icebox Mall, and is one of myriad projects produced during Collective Futures (October 2–November 15, 2026).