un 19.2: We Swear We Saw This maps the notebook as a site of political and creative urgency — assembling drawings, words, and methodologies that ask whether the act of notetaking can itself carry genealogies of resistance.
About This Book
This issue of un Magazine takes the notebook as its subject and its form: a gathering of artists' and writers' working documents that resist easy categorisation. Edited by Azza Zein, the publication asks what is at stake in the act of witnessing and recording — whether in wandering lines, urgent documentation, or reparative mark-making. The contributions span drawing, writing, and hybrid practices, exploring notebooks not as finished objects but as living methodologies. For practitioners interested in process, embodied knowledge, and the politics of the sketchbook, this issue is a serious and searching provocation.
Key Features
- 163 pages of artists' drawings, written contributions, and hybrid notebook-form works
- Edited by Azza Zein, with contributions from Menna Agha, Mya Cole, Carlos Eduardo Morreo, Marcela Alejandra Gomez Escudero, Joyce Joumaa, Tina Stefanou, Miriam La Rosa, Sunny Lei, Laura Luciana, Hugh Magnus, Marcus McKenzie, Thomas Moran, Georgia Mullholland, Zoe Sadokierski, Zara Sully, Lisa Roberts, and Woya Webb
- Published by un Projects, ISSN 1449-6747
What You'll Discover
- How the notebook operates as a site of resistance — capturing urgency and witnessing in the immediacy of notetaking
- A diverse range of creative methodologies drawn from artists' and writers' working notebooks across practices
- The tension between the private and the political in documentary mark-making and wor(l)d-building
- An assembled form that is itself notebook-like: resilient, playful, occulted, caring, and reparative in equal measure
About the Author
Azza Zein is the editor of this issue of un Magazine. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 163
- Dimensions: 298 x 125 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: [Details available upon request]
- Publisher: un Projects
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists, writers, designers, and researchers engaged with process-based practice, the politics of documentation, and the notebook as a form of critical and creative inquiry.