un Magazine 19.2

un 19.2 We Swear We Saw This. ed. Azza Zein

163 pages, paperback, colour

ISSN: 1449-6747

Publication date: 2025

Publisher: un Projects

19.2 We Swear We Saw This, guest edited by Azza Zein reflects on the notebook — as witness, a site of translation, a mapping device, a tool to demarcate time and otherwise unpublished notes and drawings. Inside you’ll find Articles that explore the variety of methodologies found in artists’ and writers’ notebooks. Including historicism on Australian painter Bea Maddock, Palestinian artist Nahil Bishara, New Zealand Choreographer Douglas Wright, American modernist poet H.D, and conceptual artist Lutz Bacher. You’ll find artist pages with sketches of Nubia, carrier pigeon portraits, familial scrapbooking, surreal playing cards and notebook neologisms. Reflections on local projects from Dandenong’s ‘HOME 25’ exhibition, to Launceston’s ‘Portrait of Community’ at Sawtooth ARI. The notebooks you will encounter here, Zein writes, are an assemblage of… wandering lines: some resilient insertions, some playful, some occulted, some caring and reparative.

Editorial Committee: Mia van den Bos, Simone Hine, Jade Irvine, Ella Howells, Jade Irvine, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Zali Morgan, Haneen Mahmood Martin, Sarah Rodigari, Talia Smith, Siying Zhou

Guest Editor: Azza Zein

General Manager: Audrey Pfister

Proofreaders: Audrey Pfister, Danielle El-Hajj

Copyeditor: Brenden Casey

Design: Zenobia Ahmed, Dennis Grauel

Print Production: Tallinn Book Printers