Microreview: Archival Textures

Archival Textures horizontal book spines
Book spines of the first four titles in the publication series Archival Textures. (c) Archival Textures
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Pages from the book Amplifying, eds. Setareh Noorani, Tabea Nixdorff, published by Archival Textures, 2024. (c) Archival Textures
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Book Cover Amplifying, eds. Setareh Noorani, Tabea Nixdorff, published by Archival Textures, 2024. (c) Archival Textures
Archival Textures scan Reclaiming p110 111
Pages from the book (Re)claiming, eds. Noah Littel, Tabea Nixdorff, published by Archival Textures, 2024. (c) Archival Textures
Archival Textures scan Reclaiming p118 119
Pages from the book (Re)claiming, eds. Noah Littel, Tabea Nixdorff, published by Archival Textures, 2024. (c) Archival Textures
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Caption: Book cover (Re)claiming, eds. Noah Littel, Tabea Nixdorff, published by Archival Textures, 2024. (c) Archival Textures
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Cover of A Palestine Solidarity Zine #2, eds. Tamara Hartman, Tabea Nixdorff, published by Archival Textures, March 2025. (c) Archival Textures
Date
2025 October
Subtitle
Setareh Noorani reviews the publication series Archival Textures, founded in 2023 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, by Tabea Nixdorff.
Type
microreview
Author / Publisher
Setareh Noorani for NewsLibrary
Guest Editor

Nienke Terpsma

Author Info

Setareh Noorani is an architect, artist, and researcher and curator at Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL), with a focus on feminist, decolonial, non-institutional, and more-than-human perspectives in the way we build, remember and change cities. She has co-edited “Amplifying”, the first issue of Archival Textures, with Tabea Nixdorff.

setarehnoorani.nl

@unfolding_something

Publication Language

English / Dutch

Also published here

Newsletter No. 71

@sarn_switzerland

Reviewed Publication

The publication series Archival Textures, founded in 2023 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, by Tabea Nixdorff.

Archival Textures, a publication series initiated, designed and co-edited by Tabea Nixdorff, is a situated and interconnected effort that traces, threads and amplifies undernarrated historical presences with/in archives or archival documents. The five books published under the imprint so far each employ distinct artistic and activist strategies of attuning to materials that wit(h)ness remarkable pasts, for instance those of queer collectives, Black (migrant) women, and Chinese-Indonesian women, which continue to resonate today. Written documents, transposed and republished, form a textural landscape of sources. Combined with contemporary editing or adjoining narration and oral history, they form a powerful repository of strategies for the present.

Beyond its book series, Archival Textures is also an outlet for immediate and grey publishing, as the ongoing Palestine Solidarity zine series proves, as well as posters and buttons accompanying the softcover editions.