Fluid, irregular, unstable - the state of flux can be desirable, disastrous or both, but is seldom optional and rarely a choice. By its very nature, a moment of flux can subvert the status quo, yet be inherent to its constitution. While for many creative practitioners, having a fluid disposition of their context can induce momentum or inertia, to power through this enunciates their practice.

It is only a matter of our position to see the constant change our collective being perseveres in a plural world. This week’s issue brings forward the many currents – social, political, environmental, and temporal, through which the creative sphere is manoeuvring and shaping the contemporary.

Straddling past and present from across the pond, Studio Gang brings the Bard of Avon to the Hudson Valley; the art world in Buenos Aires stays sleepless in the wake of its extreme political shift; Jyoti Nisha's ‘Bahujan Spectatorship’ looks at the struggles of authorship through her film; Omer Wasim’s practice unearths histories of migration and displacement.

In a world tethering on the edge of chaos, instability confronts order. Maintaining order is the crux and often the tool to enact various atrocities. As we strive to design an inclusive world, where should emphasis lie, in flux or in order?