‘perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition’ - James Baldwin

As algorithms and AI dominate platforms of online existence to sway and influence inline with the interest of data-mining technocrats, cultural wars are accelerated and notions of identity are splintered in to infinitely specific (i.e. algorithmically indexical) subsets. Existential understanding is where we pay the consequence of this reality. We have paradoxically become more connected than ever, yet more atomized than ever as well.

Returning home, Never Fake It issue 2 seeks to engage with the increasingly obscured notion of belonging and self. To this end, the issue seeks to reimagine and delimit the notion of ‘place’, and thereby home and identity as well, through expanding and redefining its constitution. Working alongside and featuring over twenty artists and collectives working in countless disciplines and practices, this issue strives to help guide all readers to a reclaimed sense of home and belonging.

Featuring interviews with, the works of, and writing by:
Alix Bugat
Clara Schweers
Daisuke Teshigawara
Eetu Sihvonen
Fan Wu
Gabrielle K Brown
Genevieve Goffman
Gerard Carson
Helena Minginowicz
Irene [ENERI] Avramelos
Isabella Kressin
Keiken
Masako Hirano
Nehuen
Nudo
Oleg&Kaska
Travis John Ficarra
Twee Molar
Tzusing
Ven Qiu
Wu Meichi
Zhu Jinkhun
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