In this issue

BlackFlash Fall 2021
A Temporary, Collectively-Held Space guest-edited by Carmen Papalia

Editorial Features:

On Our Terms: Care and Disability Justice
A conversation between Amanda Cachia and guest-editor Carmen Papalia

A Day in New York >> Kway Kiishkwihk Lenapehoking
By Vanessa Dion Fletcher

The Art World Needs to Welcome Us with Open Arms
By Aislinn Thomas

Trauma X: Holding Space Radically
By Vo Vo

restorative practices
By Mercedes Eng and Cecily Nicholson

Fighting MAID: A conversation with Q Lawrence on the Subject of C7 and the Disability Filibuster
By Kay Slater

Access Magicians in Cyberspace: Care as a Festive Practice
By Lisa Prentice

On Choosing a Neighbourhood (Be4)
By Joselia R. Hughes

BlackFlash Fall 2021: A Temporary, Collectively-Held Space was developed in partnership with the MacKenzie Art Gallery. The unique guest-edited issue is an extension of Carmen Papalia’s summer exhibition Provisional Structures at the MacKenzie Art Gallery curated by Nicolle Nugent.

The MacKenzie Art Gallery is honored to have been a part of this collaborative BlackFlash issue as an extension of our work with Carmen Papalia, the Provisional Structures project and our commitment to accessibility.

Cover: Cecily Nicholson, Leaves, 2021.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Image Description: The top two thirds of this photograph are filled with an ultra-close-up of a red lettuce leaf, taken from beneath, positioned as if it’s an awning protecting the camera from the sun. The leaf is wide, ruffled, and dew-dropped, and sunlight penetrates the green segments, but not the red. Beneath the red lettuce awning, a view of many rows of varieties of lettuce, round and full, at their prime for harvest, growing from dark soil.

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.