About

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, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist solidarities.

NO NIIN functions as a platform for writers to express their thoughts in the form of essays, reviews, interviews, research papers, artworks, poetry, and short fiction. In addition to the online issues, the magazine publishes annual anthology-format print publications with editors’ picks of contributions from the online issues.

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 redefine what “global” means in art. Instead of measuring internationalism by proximity to prestige or capital, we want to recognise and uplift artistic voices and practices from places that are often sidelined or deemed peripheral in the global art conversation. 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 imaginative—to speak of the world not only as it is, but as we know and feel it can be.