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.
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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.
A reflection on the evolution of photographic art, since BlackFlash’s 1983 founding
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Jordan Bennett about his art practice, the revitalization of Mi’kmaq visual culture, international travel, Indigenous ink, and being a multidisciplinary artist.
Like cryptophasiac twins who speak a tongue that only they can understand, Jason Cawood and Colby Richardson, as the collective Phomohobes, have created a specific but ambiguous lexicon of images, arranged in adherence to the grammar of their shared visual language.
Out of the international underground film movement of the 1960s, an alchemical avant-garde slowly formed. It formed in the home darkrooms and studios of artists who imagined a new cinema, an altogether handmade thing, wherein the conventional processes of the photochemical lab could be reshaped, the recipes refigured, to transmute the film strip’s latent image into something nobler than an image merely processed.
I first met Québécois filmmaker Guillaume Vallée in Percé, Quebec, at Les Percéides: La Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques. At the festival, Vallée presented Le bulbe tragique, 2016, a film which was awarded Best Canadian Work at the 2016 WNDX Festival of Moving Image, and performed Promenade Éphémère, an expanded cinema collaboration with filmmaker Charles-André Coderre and musician Charles Barabé.
Jeff Bierk is a Toronto-based photographer and visual artist whose documentation of his closeknit group of friends has garnered national and international media attention (and consternation).