Luther Konadu (MB) and Pao Houa Her (MN) share their personal experiences photographing their families, communities, and themselves. Through this conversation, they explore the binary between actively seeking change and at the same time grappling with a nostalgia for home and tradition.
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When discussing the work of Yuula Benivolski (ON), Karie Liao (ON) draws on the cultural significance and healing properties of ASMR, particularly how its meditative-like qualities are often utilized to combat migraines, anxiety, and depression.
ABOVE all else, above ALL else. I will come back to this thought, but first allow me to introduce myself as I am sure you do not remember me from that brief encounter back in 1931…
Cole Thompson discusses the work of Shelley Niro, Lori Blondeau, Marja Helander, and Thriza Cuthand in an attempt to showcase how Indigenous artists dissect consumer culture and its impact on contemporary ideologies, imagery, and relationships.
Chapman’s work rewilds the idioms and conventions of images to create works that respond to the visual language of the Anishinaabe today.
This story begins with a stone. The stone is smooth and dark, fitting comfortably in my hand. It is carved with the outline of an outstretched hand.
More than forty years after completing her first photographic works–portraits of of her family and towns members of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan–a community that still counts her as one of their own, Sandra Semchuk’s latest projects continue to enact forms of recognition and cross-cultural learning.
I can’t say this is a healthy way to be. It’s not. It means I wake up and check my phone in the middle of the night: someone has been shot.
The pronunciation of the format seems to be the sole maxim that the GIF has advanced. Beyond that, discursively and aesthetically, it’s relatively open season, hence its appeal as an artistic medium.
Inspired by the things around her in her curatorial, artistic, and personal practises, Willard dictates that art is derived from the everyday and the separation of ‘High Art’, as shown in galleries, should not dominate the dialogue on art.