Sternberg Press has released Pelin Tan's 'Forms of Non-Belonging' on 20 October 2026, a 232-page volume co-published with e-flux journal and priced at $24.95. The book gathers essays and conversations with artists and practitioners drawn from two decades of research and fieldwork, and reflects on the conditions of exile, refugeehood, migration and community building at the edges of society.

Tan starts from an observation that some forms of belonging do not quite belong. She places experiences of displacement alongside questions about how space is produced, how structural violence operates, how landscapes change, and how environments are damaged. The book also takes up questions of method: radical teaching, shared practices of commoning, ways of building institutions outside dominant models, and the imagination of survival under pressure.

Two questions run through the collection. One asks how art can give voice to landscapes marked by catastrophe. The other asks how the effects of large-scale disaster can be remembered through artistic and architectural methods. Readers are invited to treat artefacts and buildings as traces of a damaged era, land as layered with violence, cycles as a form of planetary navigation, and exile as a kind of semi-voluntary collectivity.

Tan is a sociologist and art historian based between Tire and Mardin in Turkey, and a professor in the film department of the fine arts faculty at Batman University. In 2019 she received Bard College's Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, and she is also a fellow of the Orient Institute of Beirut. Her earlier books include 'Threshold Architecture: Unconditional Hospitality'.