Souklaye’s nano essay … has been published in the second issue of blank, an international publication initiated by a group of students of the Vienna Institut für Kunst und Architektur, that serves as a blank space for everyone’s ideas. It might be nothingness and emptiness, but it also is the potential to be filled by our imagination.

The second issue of blank sheds light on crisis from many different angles, unstable and yet resilient. The theme is approached by more than 60 contributors. Guided by David Gallo’s graphic design, which in itself is moving in and out of crisis, we are experiencing various turning points: literary, visual, critical, artistic, personal, political, serious and ironic. The new issue of blank is approaching, tackling and contemplating the phenomenon of crisis. Collected and selected in autumn 2019, the contributions do not deal with COVID-19, and yet they touch the pandemic.

Edited by Ella Felber, Stepan Nest, Lisa Penz, Sebastian Seib, Martin Sturz, Carla Veltman; graphics by David Gallo.

Published in May 2020.