The website of Caleb Waldorf

I create editorial and publishing frameworks, collaborative pedagogical structures, and digital platforms with art institutions, treating each as a way to align organizational form with the social relations they enact.

For over a decade, this practice centered on two projects: The Public School, a school with no curriculum, in which classes emerged from proposals submitted by the public, and where I helped build its platform and structure, as well as organize and teach classes; and Triple Canopy, which I co-founded and where, as creative director, I worked across editorial, design, and technical direction, developing publication frameworks and tools that shaped how work was commissioned, produced, and circulated. Alongside these, I initiated shorter-term projects, including A Public Library, a reading and discussion space embedded within a Berlin city library.

More recently, I started eeeeee.pub, a project that produces and distributes publications in collaboration with small-press and artist-run publishers, and have worked with SENSE on research into publishing in socially engaged art practices across different contexts. Within established art institutions, I conceived and developed post for The Museum of Modern Art and am currently developing the concept and structure for an online platform at the Hamburger Bahnhof.

Across these contexts, I am concerned with how editorial and technical systems structure what becomes visible, through which forms and formats knowledge circulates, and how those arrangements shape publics and organize collective relations.