“prou(k)n is a false acronym for: Project For the Affirmation of the (K)new - a series of drawings echoing El LIssitzky’s Proun series of paintings. 

The prou(k)n series is an effort to find a sketched language that registers the tension between the new, as a move toward the unknown, and the knew, as a move toward recovery of what was lost. In our ongoing project of post-colonial transformation and anti-colonial liberation we are looking for both the return of what we know was taken (dignity, memory, possibility) and simultaneously to transcend the boundaries of all that we know and all that is knowable. This is the double agency of decoloniality. 

The prou(k)n series builds a soft language of ganglia and quantum entanglements for thinking with our collective nervous body. These drawings form a gestural vocabulary for an other-worldly protest drawn over analytic diagrams of the post-colonial condition. prou(k)n drawings are knotted signals in the noise of a collective dream (sometimes nightmare) of another world.” - Nolan Oswald Dennis