Yaniya Lee advocates for a critical approach grounded in material practice. Drawing on her recent work with textile artists in Edmonton, Lee makes a case for criticism that attends to how black artists work, focusing on their materials, methods, and processes, while calling for more diverse voices to engage with these practices.
BlackFlash Magazine Posts
In a profile of Edmonton-born, Berlin-based artist Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, writer Lauren Lavery examines how Shaw’s treatment of industrial materials lends insight into our evolving relationship with urban landscapes and technology.
Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
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BlackFlash Spring/Summer 2026 “In my time at BlackFlash, we’ve persistently renegotiated the magazine’s identity, careening between vestigial past eras while plotting a future course, all…
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‘Traces’ Issue Launch / Saskatoon
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From BlackFlash Expanded
An extended sound work: contact microphones, tactile transducer, stereo receiver, guitar strings, plate metal, pot lid, bar clamps, spring clamps, fm/am 2-band receivers, analog delay, ‘big muff’ fuzz/distortion, max/msp, hairbrush.
From the archives
Although the two documentaries were made 30 years apart, these stories help us understand the true scope of loss and the way reverberations from trauma can stretch out further than it’s possible to see.
