Words on Paper

September 2017, English, 5.5 x 8.5 in, 164 pages, risograph, softcoverDesign: Sming Sming Books Words on Paper is nonsensical's first guest-edited issue, with writings by Cara Despain, Abigail Han, Ali Kheradyar, M, Anna Knecht Schwarzer, Toisha Tucker, Suné Woods, and Meital Yaniv. In 2016, Meital Yaniv sent a provocation to seven artists with discreet writing practices. What resulted was an exhibition of the artists’ works, which became the host and incubator for five reading events that took place at LAST Projects in Los Angeles during a brief two-week period in a tense political moment—a few months before the 2016 election. Combined with the prompt of the reading events, the exhibition became a workshop for creating and presenting brand new writing. The short timeframe ensured the brewing of raw experimentation, forcing artists to produce largely unrehearsed and unedited pieces. As the artists sat in a circle, taking turns reading their works aloud without prescribed order, the ga