September 2025 The annotated call We Swear We Saw This. Drawings about Notebooks and Notebooks about the Wor(l)ds explores the variety of methodologies found in artists’ and writers’ notebooks. The theme of the issue adapts titles from both the anthropologist Michael Taussig’s book and artist Adrian Piper’s work.[1] Taussig expands on how drawing as a […]
‘Witnessing’ — one of my notebooks insists — ‘is always oriented not toward the present, but towards its passing, and so justice remains incomplete’. These multiplying notebooks are not merely containers, a series of space-time reflections, but also parties in the ongoing documentation of a struggle against what liberation theologians decades ago termed ‘structural sin’. […]
‘That’s when I found out my mum could access other worlds — ones that neither we nor my dad nor any of us could reach. Especially not my dad. I remember one of many days watching him flipping through Maga’s notes. I remember him starting off slow, scanning left to right, top to bottom and […]