“Her breadth of temporality, technique and geography allow her work to be rendered as capacious and palpable to many, yet deeply distinct and tethered to particular places and times. In Clark’s visual grammar, the metaphoric and literal are quilted, and quotidian material is alchemized into perfect memory of the personal historical.”
Articles
“Ishaq’s multidisciplinary practice considers time as a spiritual, multi-dimensional and abundant realm wherein personal and collective expansion is possible […] In her work, Blackness is never static; it is a galaxy.”
“What’s left when an individual is undervalued, underpaid, unsupported and unappreciated? When there is high turnover in talent, what happens to the arts, and how can we fix this damaging colonial structure?”
We are so grateful for the generous support of EQ Bank in developing a three-part publishing and event series dedicated to digital disability justice during the Fall of 2023.
Part THREE – Saturday November 18th
This online panel explores Black, Indigenous, and Crip technoscience and how intersectional disability justice lends itself to innovation.
Co-presented with Inter/Access
Coordinated by Belinda Kwan
“DO I INTIMIDATE?” started as an anthropology research question for my university classes. In a series of ten interviews, I asked elders and youths in my Yoruba Community how it felt to wear their traditional attire in public.
“In my mind, a potent image of my late father involves a computer. He’s staring at the blue-white glow of his CRT monitor, sitting in his wheelchair, turned away from me. The visual memory eclipses his face. In an uncanny parallel, I look at a screen whenever I want to remind myself of his features. In both circumstances, a digital display facilitates remembering.”
“This issue marks a transition in BlackFlash’s 40-year publishing history. Our fall 2023 issue is the last commissioned by our former managing editor Maxine Proctor in collaboration with our editorial committee. It is also (as transitions go) the first produced in collaboration with our new managing editor, Jasmin Fookes.”
“In these paintings, negative space is full of interpretive potential. Visual vacancies produce meaning and confirm that there is great substance in nothingness.”
“With a focus on the everyday lives of Black queer kin, “Audacity” plays with embodiments of masculinity and femininity within recognizable gestures and expressions of Black queerness.”
“Both John and myself had been orbiting around questions of Whiteness and White identity through our own independent research, and we came together to produce an exhibition that looks directly at the topic of White racial identity. […] The following conversation is one of the only occasions where we’ve been able to debrief about our experiences, reflecting on our own curatorial collaboration and the public reaction to the exhibition.”
“Hobot’s work creates a sense of being present in another place while standing right where you are. In the stark white of the gallery, even in the digitized white of a screen, she leads the viewer through a maze of coalescing propositions.”
