Ethel-Ruth Tawe on Stewarding an Antidisciplinary Practice at C& Magazine

Ethel-Ruth Tawe has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of Contemporary And (C&) Magazine. Hailing from Yaoundé, Cameroon, she is an antidisciplinary artist focused on the theme of memory throughout Africa and its diaspora. Tawe gathers and digitizes familial photographs from Cameroon, Tanzania, and the Netherlands. She draws inspiration from Djibril Diop Mambéty's perspective on oral tradition as an imagery tradition and Édouard Glissant's idea of opacity. Tawe characterizes antidisciplinary practice as a means of creating novelty and embracing refusal, influenced by the Practicing Refusal Collective and William Easterly's The Tyranny of Experts. She encourages submissions that reflect contradictions and intersectionality, aiming for varied formats and discussions that link artistic works to wider social or political issues.