Grafter's Quarterly Issue II: Indexing Abstraction

Documents occupy a site temporally and topographically displaced from a thing documented. In coordinating this external point of consideration, documents evidence a thing - prove its existence - but also abstract from it, severed as they are from a thing's site of encounter. To what extent, then, are we able to say that a document is related to a thing documented?

This issue of Grafters' Quarterly explores documents' (non-)relationship to a conception of reality, the authority of History, and technologies of reproduction.

Documents occupy a site temporally and topographically displaced from a thing documented. In coordinating this external point of consideration, documents evidence a thing - prove its existence - but also abstract from it, severed as they are from a thing's site of encounter. To what extent, then, are we able to say that a document is related to a thing documented?

This issue of Grafters' Quarterly explores documents' (non-)relationship to a conception of reality, the authority of History, and technologies of reproduction.


This issue includes commissioned contributions from Endre Roalkvam Bye, Eleanor Clare, Moa Goysdotter, Esther Leslie, Salomé Voegelin, and Apichaya Wanthiang, alongside previously-existing work by Georg Bartisch, Michael K. Buckland, Liam Gillick, Rune Klevjer, Mohammad Salemy, Allan Sekula, Gertrude Stein, and Marc Vallée.  Founded & Edited by Tora Endestad Bjørkheim & Johnny Herbert.

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