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NO NIIN Magazine — Navigating Displacement: Mapping Exile and Memory Along Artistic Routes Examining his own displacement, Rahiem Shadad reflects on the cultural, emotional, and psychological tolls from an ongoing civil war in Sudan through the movement and work of artists who relocated fro...

Examining his own displacement, a Sudanese curator and former gallery owner reflects on the cultural, emotional, and psychological tolls from an ongoing civil war in Sudan through the movement and work of artists who relocated from Khartoum to Nairobi.

NO NIIN Magazine — Languages of Resistance: An Interview with Amol K. Patil Amol K. Patil, in an interview with Pranita Thorat, discusses how his work lays bare the realities of caste, labour, and displacement.

Amol K. Patil, in an interview with Pranita Thorat, details the deeply personal and politically charged narratives of his practice, discussing how his work lays bare the realities of caste, labour, and displacement.

NO NIIN Magazine — On Bulldozer Politics: An Interview with Léopold Lambert & Shivangi Mariam Raj In an interview with Omer Gorashi, Léopold Lambert and Shivangi Mariam Raj of the Funambulist discuss “Bulldozer Politics,” revealing how ruins are strategically weaponized for state power through dem...

Ruins are not just remnants of the past—they are strategic, political, and weaponised with intent. In this interview we explore how demolition and displacement serve state power while also becoming spaces of resistance and remembrance.

NO NIIN Magazine — Queering Hamas: A Colonial Weapon Musa Shadeedi analyzes the use of feminizing and queering Palestinian resistance in Gaza as a justification for genocide and occupation, contextualizing this tactic within historical colonial and anti...

Musa Shadeedi examines how the feminisation and queering of Palestinian resistance in Gaza are used as tools of justifying genocide and occupation. By situating this tactic within its historical colonial and anti-Islamic context, Shadeedi exposes the contradictions inherent in these narratives.

A conversation with Isabel and Carl Gakran about the Zág (Araucaria), an indigenous tree threatened with extinction. We talked about their project (Instituto Zág), Indigenous climate justice and the intersection between the Palestinian and the (Brazilian) Indigenous struggles.

NO NIIN Magazine — Issue 29 / Sites of Resistance and Remembrance This issue examines the entangled struggles against the many forms of ongoing colonial violence in settler states and the states and institutions in complicity with them. It features conversations on ...

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NO NIIN Magazine — Temporary Peace Shahi Derky's poignant text about leaving Syria, seeking refuge in different places, and the unending exile of figuring things out, remembering many pasts, and imagined futures.

Shahi Derky’s poignant text about leaving Syria, seeking refuge in different places, and the unending exile of figuring things out, remembering many pasts, and imagined futures.

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NO NIIN Magazine — Thinking with the Forest: Roots and Routes for New Knowledges huiying ng-lou's research paper highlights the significance of ecological knowledge practiced by Thai farmers, exploring how agroecology resists capitalist agriculture, sustains farmers’ autonomy and ...

“If I don’t learn with my dad, I won’t know the history of this plant, and we will lose this knowledge. Society now is covered with other knowledge, making you feel small and unconfident and think you need to eat some plants and not others. They create changes through the structure.”

NO NIIN Magazine — Thinking with the Forest: Roots and Routes for New Knowledges huiying ng-lou's research paper highlights the significance of ecological knowledge practiced by Thai farmers, exploring how agroecology resists capitalist agriculture, sustains farmers’ autonomy and ...

Highlighting the significance of ecological knowledge practiced by farmers in Thailand, the paper explores how agroecology resists capitalist agriculture, supports farmers’ autonomy and generational knowledge, and fosters resilience and knowledge-sharing among communities.

NO NIIN Magazine — Alienation, Authenticity, and the Human Scale: An Interview with Stan Douglas Ali Akbar Mehta interviews Stan Douglas on the complexities of photography, exploring its inherent alienation as a tool to disrupt traditional narratives and provide fresh perspectives on history.

Ali Akbar Mehta interviews Stan Douglas on the complexities of photography and its inherent alienation that can be harnessed to disrupt traditional narratives and offer fresh perspectives on history.

NO NIIN Magazine — A Dance of Intimacy, Ambition and Despair: A Review of Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Toxic Valentina Černiauskaitė reviews Saulė Bliuvaitė’s film ‘Toxic’, where friendship and rivalry intertwine in a delicate balance of support and silent competition, unfolding through moments of violence a...

In Saulė Bliuvaitė’s film ‘Toxic’, friendship and rivalry weave together in a complex dance, an intricate play of support and silent competition. Filled with both violence and tender moments, in the film it emerges as a fragile lifeline.

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NO NIIN Magazine — Painting the Self and the Close Ones: An Interview with Joel Slotte Eero Karjalainen, in conversation with Joel Slotte, explores Joel’s process, the display of reference material in his work, the ethical side of using personal references of an artist and the impact an...

On Joel Slotte’s process, the display of reference material in his work, the ethical side of using personal references of an artist and the impact and role of people close to him in his work, and the infrastructures of the art world and the fragility in which we operate.

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NO NIIN Magazine — Issue 28 / How We Come to Imagine Freedom This issue looks at artistic practices that remember, resist, and redefine themselves to exist outside of colonial frameworks. It features essays on topics such as archives and Kurdish identity format...

NO NIIN Issue 28: How We Come to Imagine Freedom looks at artistic practices that remember, resist, and redefine themselves to exist outside of colonial frameworks.

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