In this issue

Our Spring 2021 issue features a selection of candid conversations between Erika DeFreitas and Tarin Dehod, Jessie Ray Short and Laura St. Pierre, and Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn and Yuvinka Media. It also showcases the work of Chrysanne Stathacos, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Christopher Lacroix as well as writing by Derek Coulombe, Nicole Leroy, and Lodoe Laura.

Each print publication contains a beautiful limited-edition lenticular postcard by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn in partnership with Bonniers Konsthall and sponsored by CONTACT Photography Festival.

Page 2. Editorial Note by Maxine Proctor, Managing Editor

Page 4. I See You Too by artist Erika DeFreitas and curator Tarin Dehod

Page 12. Calling Cards by Rhiannon Vogl

Page 18. The Historical Misrepresentation of Édouard Beaupré: A Conversation About Métis and Fransaskois Identity by Jessie Ray Short and Laura St. Pierre

Page 24. Two Names: The Ideological Construction of Multiculturalism and its Mechanisms by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn and Yuvinka Medina

Page 34. Timothy Yanick Hunter: Past/Present/Future Sense by Liz Ikiriko

Page 42. Ten Notes on the Men’s 20KM Race Walk of the 1984 Summer Olympics, as if It Were Now by Derek Coulombe

Page 46. The Body is a Fort by Henry Heng Lu

Page 54. Dreams of Ghosts: A Failing Grasp on the Past by Nicole Leroy

Page 58. window Winnipeg: an interview with Noor Bhangu, Mariana Muñoz Gomez, and Sarah Nesbitt by Lodoe Laura

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.