This issue of un Magazine takes sound as its organising question — not sound as ambient backdrop or aesthetic effect, but as a site of political and ancestral knowledge. Edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla, the volume assembles artists, writers, and practitioners whose work engages modes of listening that resist assimilation into Euro-centric critical discourse. The result is a publication alert to the polyrhythmic, the disruptive, and the intersectional: voices that work concurrently, clash, and refuse easy synthesis. For practitioners and thinkers invested in decolonial approaches to sonic and contemporary art, this issue is a substantive resource.

Edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla with contributions from Victoria Pham, Edwina Stevens, Suneel Jethani, Anabelle Lacroix, Dale Collier & Nicholas Currie, Samuel Beilby, Wen Pei Low, Hannah Wickramasuriya, mgmgmgmg, Ripley Kavara & Nadeem Eshraghi (great ocean volumes), Shareeka Helaluddin / Aasma Tulika, Justine Makdessi, Hayden Ryan, Eduardo Cossio & Ross Bolleter, and Geoff Robinson

un Magazine is an independent contemporary art magazine published bi-annually. It is printed in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia, and distributed to art organisations, galleries, and educational institutions around Australia and to selected outlets internationally, as well as being published online.

un Magazine has been published since 2004, when it was founded by artist Lily Hibberd.

Since 2008, un Magazine has been published by un Projects, who appoint a new editor and sub-editor each year. Past editors have included Rosemary Forde, Zara Stanhope, Phip Murray, Din Heagney, Angela Brophy, Kyla McFarlane, Lisa Radford, Jarrod Rawlins, Benjamin Forster, Robert Cook, Pip Wallis, Meredith Turnbull and Shelley McSpedden, David Capra and Amelia Winata, Neika Lehman and Arlie Alizzi, Hugh Childers and Bobuq Sayed, Elena Gomez and Rosie Isaac, Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks), D. Harding and Hilary Thurlow, Bahar Sayed and Gemma Weston, Joel Sherwood Spring, Tara Heffernan, Nadia Refaei, and Olivia Koh.