Notes on Editorial Dis/Continuities
Notes on Editorial Dis/Continuities, 2026. Courtesy of Contemporary And (C&).
To mark a pivotal transition as we settle into the year, C& Magazine’s editorial team reflects on ideas of continuities and discontinuities within our approach.
Citing inspiration from methodologies such as counterpointed repetition, a poetic technique by Marlene Nourbese Philip used to deconstruct, disrupt, and re-narrate an archive, newly appointed C& Managing Editor Naima Hassan, alongside C& Editor-in-Chief Ethel-Ruth Tawe, engage with key episodes from the magazine’s 13-year history.
Notes on Editorial Dis/Continuities reflects on questions of stewardship and gestures through which those who came before are honoured. In a series of excerpts revived from the C& Cyclopedia, it offers annotations through repetition, redaction, and reformatting, as editorial experiments across time.
The C& Cyclopedia is an expansive digital knowledge platform mapping the networks, movements, and key figures that shape contemporary art across continents and generations. It functions as both archive and learning space, making connections visible where they’ve too often been fragmented or erased.
A limited number of print copies are available for pick-up at the C& Berlin and Nairobi offices. Please enquire by emailing info[at]contemporaryand.com with the subject line: pamphlet.
Read the digital version of the pamphlet here.
“We are delighted to welcome Naima Hassan as Managing Editor of C& Magazine. Naima brings a remarkable depth of insight, rigor, and nuance across archival, curatorial, publishing practices and beyond. She has developed years of expertise at the intersection of art and archives, as Associate Curator and Archivist at Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation, and Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) since 2022 and through the archive platform SITAAD which she co-directs with Leyla Degan. We look forward to expanding geographies and conceptual frameworks together.”
— Ethel-Ruth Tawe, C& Magazine Editor-in-Chief
About the author
Naima Hassan
Naima Hassan is a Berlin‑based researcher working across archival, curatorial, and editorial fields. She is Managing Editor, Contemporary And (C&) Magazine, and Project Lead at Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation and Yinka Shonibare Foundation where she leads the AAL Lab Network and Re:assemblages. In 2022, she co‑founded the archival platform SITAAD with Leyla Degan.
Ethel-Ruth Tawe
Ethel-Ruth Tawe (b. Yaoundé, Cameroon) is an antidisciplinary artist and creative researcher exploring memory in Africa and its diaspora. Image-making, storytelling, and time-travelling compose the framework of her inquiry. Her curatorial practice took form in an inaugural exhibition titled ‘African Ancient Futures’ and continues to expand in a myriad of audiovisual experiments, including her iterated project ‘Image Frequency Modulation.’ She is currently Editor-in-Chief at Contemporary And (C&) Magazine.
Essay
Sounding the Ocean: Spiral Networks of Remembrance and Elation
The Museum of Black Futures
Caribbean Sounds: The Connective Possibilities of Radio
Essay
Black Canadian Print Cultures: Of Quiet and Enduring Legacies
Rest in/as Freedom: kiarita and Black Politics of Liberation
