BlackFlash Magazine - Issue 35.1

In this issue

FEATURES & HIGHLIGHTS

An editorial on our 35th anniversary and commentary on this issue by managing editor Travis Cole.

Feature: Marcus Miller (SK) writes on the touring exhibition “Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospective.”

Feature: Mitch Speed (SK/DE) contemplates on the ever-changing medium of photography over the last 35 years in an essay entitled Stolen Spirits.

Feature: Randy Lee Cutler (BC) speaks on Vancouver based artist Marina Roy’s practice and its focus on environmental degradation and animal extinction as a historical reality.

Feature: Toby Lawrence (BC) interviews Dana Claxton (SK/BC) where they discuss “The Sioux Project – Tatanka Oyate,” the first art exhibition to explore contemporary Sioux aesthetics in Saskatchewan, on exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina.

Risa Horowitz (SK) presents an Artist Folio based on her time during the Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition residency entitled “I Set out to Track the Sun.”

Matthew Hills (NL) conducts our most recent STUDIO with “Two Chromogenic Curmudgeons: Evergon and Jean-Jacques Ringuette.”

In Focus: Portia Priegert (AB) discusses Victoria-based Tara Nicholson’s series “Arctic Claims.”

In Focus: Helen Wong (BC) speaks on indigenous curator and artist from the Secwepemc nation, Tania Willard’s recent work “#haunted_hunted” and her ongoing practice.

In Focus: Noor Bhangu (MB) speaks on the intersection of landscape art, lens based media and contemporary politics in her piece “The Language of Landscapes and Photographies.”

In Focus: Peter Morin (MB) previews the touring Indigenous sound exhibition “wnoondwaamin: we hear them.”

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.