In this issue

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).

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 calls me back to my body
By Quill Christie-Peters (ON)
Quill Christie-Peters revisits Rebecca Belmore’s (ON) 2000 performance The Indian Factory.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Hambleton: Perambulation
By Yam Lau (ON)
Yam Lau discusses the future of consumption through the CGI technology in Joe Hambleton’s (ON) Perambulation.

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.

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.