No NIIN

NO NIIN absorbs the disruptive sparks emerging from the intersectional art and culture environs that counter the status quo, aspiring to develop them as springboards for new ways of thinking and working towards hope, liberation, and building internationalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist solidarities.

We want NO NIIN to be a critical locus for discourse and provoke difficult conversations—to call for more imaginative and unorthodox approaches to talk back to institutions, explain, defend, complain, and even complicate the picture. We wish to foster a non-discriminatory culture of communication in the arts, breaking down our facts into simple language and ideas that people can comprehend without struggling over syntax. We want to reformulate international ambitions by including and promoting a wide variety of voices and practices, particularly in locations that are often overlooked because they are not considered globally as the usual hubs of contemporary art. More than “giving a voice,” we’ve made an effort to open a space for a way of living art in the contemporary world. NO NIIN is not a publication of/for victims or a benevolent patronizing gesture of making something weak and powerless visible. We want NO NIIN to be triumphant and realistic and speak of the world as we know and feel it.