“Watt’s models and props suggest that queerness is not confined to a location. Instead, it is everywhere waiting to be discovered and activated in the places we expect it to be as much as the places we choose it to be. The pain, loss, love, and desire that flow through nightclubs and bath houses can be just as potent in a laundromat or pool.”
Contemporary art
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Several of the works in this issue consider how the domestic is shaped not only by private life but also by global currents, family histories, and consumer goods, nudging at the conditions that shape how we live, where we live, and with whom we choose to share our lives.
“The Emma Lake Workshops have a loaded history, and many prairie artists are ready to lay that chapter to rest. […] My curiosity was piqued, so I invited Nancy to sit down to demystify the enduring legacy of Emma Lake and how it continues to creep into her art practice.”
“The way these artists leave traces of our culture in their work continues to shape the ways I understand our histories, our present, and our futures. […] None of them are looking to create a clean-cut narrative of Métis culture, and–even better perhaps—they question if there really is one. But they are looking to our future while honouring those who came before us.”
“Studies have shown that each time you remember a past event, new neural connections are made that will change how you recall it next time. We remember our memories, which become copies of copies. This accumulation, where nothing is fixed among the flood of information, and any attempt to hold on mutates the very thing we try to grasp, finds form in Eckert’s work.”
“Emerging first from intuition, then developed along with and through extensive research, much of Clare’s work interrogates the gaze and body politic. Ahead of her solo exhibition at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon in November 2025, I spoke to Clare about her process and impetus to create; her work, which has traced a relief of feminist histories; and her interest in the gendered experience of perception and being perceived.”
“PPE (rituals) is a browser-based iteration of the speculative virtual world Plants Properties Equipment.”
“To know where we are going, we must first remember where we have been. This work is a way of addressing the silence and shame surrounding the experiences of violence of those close to me, of speaking out where they felt they couldn’t, and picking up on the traces of what was left unsaid.”
the evolving nature of solidarity in fraught moment
“Following the work of Morehshin Allahyari, Aziza Kadyri, and Rah Eleh, I am increasingly interested in the potential uses of AI and other generative tools to rethink our relations to our bodies, archives, and the potential of technology. Yet, my enthusiasm involves a hesitation and an embodied fear that goes beyond the promise of an abundant future.”