BlackFlash Expanded: Winter Reading 2022/23

Cozy up this winter with recent essays and artist projects published on BlackFlash Expanded.

Angeline Simon, Afternoon Stroll, 2017. Photo collage. Courtesy of the artist.

Expanded NOW ONLINE:
Chukwudubem Ukaigwe responds to Carnation Zine’s most recent issue, Vol. 2: Pleasure in Suggestions for an Endless Landscape.

In Holding a Gap: the Work of Miki Mappin, Nic Wilson considers the ways Miki Mappin’s artworks create and hold shared space.

As part of Expanded’s FOCUS ON COLLECTIVES, Holly Aubichon reflects on two projects supported by the Shushkitew Collective. The Meat and Potatoes for Métis Gatherings is a response to the Radical Stitch: Beading Symposium at the MacKenzie Art Gallery; and Between the Ruffles: Métis Storytelling considers the Love in Every Stitch: Métis Ribbon Skirts from Kistapinanihk exhibition at the Mann Art Gallery.

Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet, Considerations When Mapping, 2022. Page 10. Courtesy of the artist.

New ARTIST PROJECTS commissioned by Expanded:
AKA share a recent group chat that centres the collective’s goals, visioning, and future plans in World Building with AKA’s Collective.

Angeline Simon walks us through her artistic practice in this reflection across time, research, and experimentation: Artist Profile: Angeline Simon

Download or sign up to receive a printed copy of Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet’s Considerations When Mapping, a zine of open-ended questions to use when mapping and remembering spaces with play and resistance.

Looking forward to the new year on Expanded:
Though BlackFlash Expanded is soon coming to an end, there are a number of exciting projects and essays to look forward to across January: Emily Fitzpatrick responds to Working Title: Digital Art Curriculum; a collective project led by Rehab Nazzal features works by four artists: Alaa Dayeh, Michael Jabareen, Khaled Jarada, and Hanin Nazzal; part 2 of Jayne Wilkinson’s Focus on the role of AI in artistic practice; as well as contributions by Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Jane Reväe McWhirter, Meganelizabeth Diamond, Roewan Crowe, and more.

About BlackFlash:
BlackFlash is a platform for contemporary visual art from a distinct Prairie perspective. Dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and innovative ideas about divergent artistic practices, BlackFlash features articles, profiles, interviews, and artist projects from a diverse selection of artists, writers, and curators.

BlackFlash was founded in 1983 by the Saskatoon artist-run centre, The Photographer’s Gallery (TPG). We are currently working on our 39th 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 is grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts and SK Arts for the production and dissemination of our publishing program. BlackFlash Expanded is funded as part of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Now program–we acknowledge their generous support.

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