when are you?

Collected writing from the Critical Studies Department of the Sandberg Instituut, 2025

Taking cue from the arbitrariness of the contract as a literary form; from one another’s rituals and routines, this publication is a collection of poetic contracts, ritualistic observations, and entangled meanderings alongside our habits; infatuations; excessive proclivities; the void, and everything considered in—between. By breaking ties, or otherwise reassessing our relationship to the static, unseen, or algorithmic, we elect to sit with lack, rather than alleviating from it

Special thanks to, and with an introduction by Mia You

Design: Geke Zaal

Editor & Copyeditor: gervaise alexis savvias

Contributors:

Macarena Magaña Villar, Antonina Swietlicka, Francesca D’Errico, Christina Reindhardt, Emma Nyhof Ajdari, Mia You, Eva Delville, Sara Vallis, Philippine Talamona, Paul Schmidt, António Manso Preto and gervaise alexis savvias