Words by Nouf AlJahdami
Published: October 2018
Commissioned by Lungs Project
Nouf Aljahdami is a United Arab Emirates-based creative. Her work reflects her experimentation with traditional art, poetry, research and literature to explore topics of identity, spirituality, culture, and politics in the Middle East. She is currently a student of Security and Global Studies College and a graduate of Development Policy in African Affairs from MIT.
Read MoreWords by Angela Wingate-Burdon & Sheyda A. Khaymaz
Published: January 2018
Lungs Project is a space created by womxn of colour!
For the past two years, we have hoped to deliver a diverse programme both online and in print. Instead, we face the futility of trying to pursue diversity while at the same time being engrossed in the regional discourse of the North East of England.
Read MoreWords by Sheyda A. Khaymaz
Published: October 2017
In order to position Lungs within a contemporary context as a publication, it is crucial to conjure up the legacies of "magazine" as an alternative form of speech. A magazine, in its essence, is a periodical which comes from the Latin word, "periodicus," meaning "returning regularly." A magazine is thus determined by its seriality, its existence across time. Within the following paragraphs, we will aim to elaborate a model of curatorial ethics and a conceptual framework through which the second edition of Lungs came into being.
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