PAN.

PAN
Online journal and printed publication
April–June 2020
Edited and designed by Matthew Galloway; physical edition of 250 per issue
Website designed with Alfred Hoi

PAN explored critical perspectives on life under quarantine, and on how life was altered through the pandemic experience. It was founded as a venue for new writing and artwork to exist and be shared in a way otherwise impossible under the restrictions put in place in response to COVID-19, and grew into an experiment in forms of distribution.

Each issue brought together around five text- or image-based contributions from writers, artists and designers in Aotearoa and beyond, released through multiple channels: online at pan-publication.org, as a downloadable, print-optimised PDF, and finally as a limited-edition printed publication in an edition of 250. In this way the project examined the dynamic between content readily available digitally and the more concrete, scarce form it might take in print. Online, each issue built slowly as contributions were ready, so that contributions within a single issue could respond to each other and develop organically.

Through both its digital and physical forms, PAN was conceived as a telegraph, document and archive of the time we were living through—a map of a moment, and of a group of practitioners.