EXPANDED

BlackFlash Expanded provides web-exclusive content that parallels and expands the magazine’s current publishing practice. With responsive articles, critically engaged reviews, panel discussions, workshops, and artist projects, BlackFlash Expanded strives to be a space that responds to urgent issues, fosters critical reflection, and showcases exceptional practices.

Across 2022, this space will focus on three general themes: Adaptations (to circumstances, to models, to systems, and to practice); Sustainability (both relationally and environmentally); and Speculations (imaginings, and reflections that move us collectively toward the future).

We value conversations that create the opportunity for generative imaginings across both our online and offline communities. Writers are invited to think deeply about the concepts, questions, and frameworks that arise in response to artistic programming, and in a number of cases will develop multiple works across the year. This sense of repetition aims to shape a space that prioritizes slow and careful introspection; considers how ideas evolve and take shape over time; looks to the ways that artistic engagements encourage and inspire new understandings and insights; and explores the ways in which experimentation might create new encounters in the space of the online.

BlackFlash Expanded prioritizes the work of artists and writers living across the Prairie region: colonially defined by the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and is a space that unequivocally values a diversity of voices.

Funded as part of Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Now program–we’re grateful for their generous support.