This issue revolves around writing within art. Against the pressure to communicate clearly, it brings together texts and images that remain open, dense, and at times deliberately inaccessible.

Contributions include a key essay by Matias Faldbakken on writing as practice, a manifesto by Jonathan Meese, and a study by Margriet Schavemaker linking artists such as Smithson, Bochner and Broodthaers to Foucault and Rancière. Also featured are a typographic “message in a bottle” by Paul Sietsema and unpublished letters by James Lee Byars.

A precise and layered issue on language as material in art.