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Editorial Note
By Maxine Proctor, Managing Editor
A Habit of Tenderness: Michèle Pearson Clarke on Vulnerability and Black Visuality
By Letticia Cosbert Miller (ON)
In A Habit of Tenderness Letticia Cosbert Miller provides insight into the intimate portraits of Michèle Pearson Clarke (ON) as well as the lengths Clarke went to create new and true images of members of her community.
Cast Your Glance Back at Me
By Maeve Hanna (AB)
In Cast your glance back at me, Maeve Hanna explores the difficulty and potential threat of deterioration associated when exhibiting fragile seminal video works. She explains that this act of public display disrupts how we understand and experience technology as well as our tender nostalgia for the works of art themselves.
She calls me back to my body
By Quill Christie-Peters (ON)
Quill Christie-Peters revisits Rebecca Belmore’s (ON) 2000 performance The Indian Factory. By closely reading the work and sharing its impact on her as a young Anishinaabe woman from the same treaty territory as Belmore, Christie-Peters pulls the performance’s pertinence back into the present day.
Joi T. Arcand’s Wayfinding: a continuum of old and new school tagging and teachings
Introduction Cheryl L’Hirondelle (ON)
Over a number of years, Joi T. Arcand (SK/ON) has installed neon signs in galleries, institutions, and public spaces across Canada. Through an exploration of historical modes of wayfinding, Cheryl L’Hirondelle showcases how Arcand’s signs push the viewer to expand the future of language.
They are all formidable: The interviews and portraits of Thelma Pepper
By Maxine Proctor (ON/SK)
Prairie icon Thelma Pepper (SK) is most revered for subverting the social and cultural expectations of age. At 60 years old, Pepper reinvigorated her lifelong interest in photography and dedicated new found free time to documenting the lives of Saskatchewan seniors, particularly women. Now at 99, Pepper continues to reconsider traditional modes of thinking, seeing, and being and encourages others to do the same.
touching listening
Joanne Bristol (SK)
With the work of Kristin Nelson (MB) and Barbara Meneley (SK) in mind, Joanne Bristol offers questions of how to read, regard, and listen to the land and water without the common act of consumption. These questions are not only vital for artists and their viewers, but for the future of our planet.
Joe Hambleton: Perambulation
By Yam Lau (ON)
Yam Lau discusses the future of consumption through the CGI technology in Joe Hambleton’s (ON) Perambulation. In an effort to probe the conceptual and technical limits of CGI technology, Hambleton maps, without a clear narrative structure, a relationship between his personal world and the virtual world.
BlackFlash Magazine’s annual Optic Nerve Image Contest
Winner: B. G-Osborne (ON/QC), A Thousand Cuts, 2018 (ongoing).
Honourable Mentions:
John Healey, Plastic Beach: Lake Superior, Jug Top, 2019.
Graham Wiebe, Mighty, 2018.
