In this issue

Guest Edited by Haema Sivanesan

FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS:

Yesomi Umolu, Assistant Curator, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (USA) interviews Lao-American photographer Pao Houa Her (USA) on recent work and exhibition titled “Focus: Pao Houa Her”, which received an honourable mention in the Huffington Post’s “21 Art Exhibitions You’ll Be Talking About This Year”.

Writer and artist, Jen Hutton (ON) considers the work of Oliver Husain (ON), a film and installation artist with an interest in notions of theatrical and cinematic spectatorship.

Artist Lori Blondeau (SK) presents 10 photographs from the archive celebrating 20 years of TRIBE, a centre for evolving Aboriginal media, visual and performing arts.

Amy Kazymerchyk, Curator of Audain Gallery at SFU Galleries (BC) reflects on issues of art and labour in Althea Thauberger’s (BC) latest ‘experimental documentary’, “Preuzmimo Bencic”.

Artist, Andrea Pinheiro (ON/BC) considers the relationship between photography, painting and print in a series of artist pages, especially commissioned for this issue.

Filmmaker and film historian, Stephen Broomer (ON) writes on Montreal based video artist Sabrina Ratté (QC).

Artist, Isabelle Pauwels (BC) discusses artist, Vishal Jugdeo’s (SK/CA, USA) approach to script as a conduit of meaning in recent video installation work.

Emerging writer and curator, Ellyn Walker (ON) writes on artist Meryl McMaster’s (ON) ongoing photo-series “In-Between Worlds”, which examines relationships between Indigenous identity, art and territory.

BlackFlash Magazine Description:

BlackFlash Magazine is a platform for contemporary visual art.

BlackFlash is dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and innovative ideas about divergent artistic practices from across Canada, the United States and beyond. Each issue includes feature articles, profiles, interviews, and artist projects from a diverse selection of artists, writers, and curators. BlackFlash fosters a rich public engagement with image-based practices, such as photography and video as well as sound, performance and social practice by promoting energetic debate and showcasing diverse voices and communities (local, regional, national and international).

BlackFlash was founded in 1983 by the Saskatoon artist-run centre, The Photographer’s Gallery (TPG). We are currently working on our 38th year of publication, making us one of Canada’s longest running magazines. BlackFlash is proudly published, designed, and disseminated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is an internationally recognized resource and authority on Canadian and international contemporary art.

BlackFlash was created to promote contemporary photography and over its thirty-five year history, the magazine evolved, following the artistic trajectory of photo-based practice to include artists working with new technologies such as video and digital media. In its commitment to being responsive to artists and relevant to contemporary art practice, the magazine has recently broadened its editorial mandate, while affirming its distinctive prairie perspective.