We are pleased to share the publication of our third issue! “For Many Returns” is written as a correspondence between Nasrin Himada and Ruanne Abu-Rahme and Basel Abbas’s The Incidental Insurgents. Engaging with writing as a process, this piece takes up the task of writing alongside, and with the artwork. In this first iteration of “For Many Returns,” Himada grapples with the limitations of grief as it is felt in relation to the poetic images of a desolate, post-apocalyptic Palestinian landscape. “The Beloved” is the transcript for a video piece with the same title by Candice Lin. Lin takes the reader through our…
From Feature #3
For Many Returns
I want to move away from thinking about art writing. Not as an analytical tool, but as a relational one, and not as a review that explains the object in question, but as a way to extend the work by seriously confronting my love for it, why I love it. So instead of using theory,…
A Cartography of Crisis through the Obvious and the Intimate
Around 90 to 95 percent of tissues of things that are eaten in the water column get recycled. As Anne [Gardulski] told me, “Nobody dies of old age in the ocean.” —Christina Sharpe, In the Wake Today the ocean may seem like a coherent body of water, as if all the scars made from…
The Beloved
Let me be your leg and carry you over mountains your gangrene cannot go. Let me describe to you the plants I found, the shape of their many leaves, how they flower in the winter, and change sex when they begin to smell. When your leg was so swollen it was the size of two,…
Like Piss in Motion: Race, Gender, and Filtration Systems in the work of Candice Lin
In Paris and in the Middle Ages sewage—human and non-human waste—was routinely dumped onto unpaved streets before working its way to the River Seine, from which people drank directly. Throughout the nineteenth century, sanitation extended far beyond Parisian urban development, into colonial governance, and serves today as a tool for imperial control. Pleating health, sanitation,…