Kate Rich

Kate Rich (AU/UK/IT) is a trade artist and feral economist, trading in and outside formal institutions for 30+ years. She worked for 20 years as bar manager, director, licensee, hire manager, banker and usher at the Cube Microplex, an all-volunteer-run arts co-operative in Bristol UK. In 2003 she founded Feral Trade, a grocery import-export business and long-range economic experiment, using the spare carrying capacity of existing movements to transport coffee, olive oil and other vital goods. In 2019 she co-organised RADMIN, Britain’s first festival of Administration. And in 2020 Kate established the Feral MBA, a radically reimagined training course in business for artists and others, which recently put down roots at FLOAT in far east Australia as an annual programme. Alongside colleagues from FoAM (Croatia), she is currently setting up the Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX), as a lab for investigating new and wild shapes for business and enterprise that could fit other possible worlds. This work forms part of Kate’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted at theAlpine Community Economies Lab (ACELab), research arm of the small alpine NGO Brave New Alps (IT).