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BlackFlash Magazine
“DO I INTIMIDATE?” started as an anthropology research question for my university classes. In a series of ten interviews, I asked elders and youths in my Yoruba Community how it felt to wear their traditional attire in public.
“In my mind, a potent image of my late father involves a computer. He’s staring at the blue-white glow of his CRT monitor, sitting in his wheelchair, turned away from me. The visual memory eclipses his face. In an uncanny parallel, I look at a screen whenever I want to remind myself of his features. In both circumstances, a digital display facilitates remembering.”
“…every day since the Women’s March. I would read about something and I would make a sign about it. It was about Trump, feminism, Indigenous rights. It was about the birds, disappearing nature. So, it was about broad topics and then the pandemic came into it. But it’s all very, very connected.” ~ Dawna Rose
“Last week we voted for a new name, next week we exchange washroom keys and in the weeks to come, Video Vérité and The Photographers Gallery will become one fast family. As of February 25th at 7:00 p.m Central Time, our two media-based galleries united under a paved banner.
Now… what are we going to do about it?”
Our Summer 2023 issue features a dynamic group of writers and culture workers who offer insight into the unique circumstances of the art world, many of which are in dire need of critique and deep reconsideration.
Fresh off the presses!
Our spring issue celebrates and explores moments of collectivity—sharing spaces, experiences, and knowledge. The issue features writing by Christina Hajjar, Michael Peterson, Cléo Sallis-Parchet, and Cole Thompson as well as artists Diane Borsato, Sean Weisgerber, Leonard Suryajaya, and Preston Pavlis.
Nic Wilson reflects on queer visibility in Karen Asher’s 90 minute video “Class.”
Maeve Hanna explores the difficulty and potential threat of deterioration associated when exhibiting fragile seminal video works.
a continuum of old and new school tagging and teachings
Researcher and colour theorist, Lannoo is presenting a body of work that peels back the layers of structural colour.