BlackFlash Magazine - Issue 36.2

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.