Founded in 1978, Whitewalls began as a publication for artists working with language, featuring contributions from many prominent figures in text and language-driven art and concrete poetry. The magazine continues to promote a wide array of “writings by artists.”

This issue is in collaboraton with the Visiting Artists Program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The theme title, “Regarding An/Other”, comes from a series of lectures of the same name held at the Art Institute in which three artists and three theorists spoke on representations of “the Other” in culture, history, and contemporary art. Contributors to this issue include Stephen Melville, The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), Sunshine Mills and the LAPD, Martha Greever, Mary Kelly, Edgar Heap of Birds, and Sander l. Gilman.