C Magazine Releases New Issue & Launches C Online

Expanding Digital Content for Contemporary Art Criticism in Canada

C Magazine has officially launched C Online – a new and expanded online content presence from Canada’s award-winning art and criticism periodical that showcases the work of artists and writers across the country. C Online introduces exciting new ways to read and engage with C Magazine, including a searchable archive, “Explore” features, digital subscriptions, personal reading lists, and much more.

The newly released C Magazine Issue 153 “Chinatown” (Winter 2023) is the first ever issue of C to be published concurrently in print and online. Guest edited by Steph Wong Ken, Issue 153 gathers artistic explorations that recognize Chinatowns as complex sites of celebration, community, and remembrance, together reflecting common histories of survival and the impossibility of a singular vision of Chinatown. Subscribe to have Issue 153 “Chinatown” delivered in print, or read it today with one of C Online’s new digital subscriptions.

With a continued emphasis on historically under-published voices, C Online introduces weekly online reviews and three brand-new columns: May Contain Pictures, a column on artists’ books, Artist’s Archive, and Otherwise, presented in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. In the first May Contain Pictures, Cason Sharpe discusses “RELAY,” a free mailer edition by Garrett Lockhart. In the first Artist’s Archive column, Zinnia Naqvi engages with C Magazine’s archive as she considers self-reflection and critique in her film The Translation Is Approximate (2021). Forthcoming is the inaugural Otherwise column, which is dedicated to conversations exploring how Black artistic practices might interrupt colonial modernity and give shape to ways of being otherwise.

Kate Monro, Executive Director and Publisher of C Magazine has said, “C Online is an important forum for voices in the visual arts across our country. Artists, art writers, curators, educators, researchers, students, and galleries hold C Magazine’s work close to heart. The opportunity for us to deliver our work to a larger audience and to have a greater positive impact on the Canadian arts community is exciting for our team. We’re so thrilled for C Online to deliver what our current subscribers know and love, while expanding the offering to reach new audiences worldwide.”

C Issue 153 “Chinatown” features artists and community builders working in relation to Chinatowns across Canada to explore how a history of survival spanning several generations is being translated, reinterpreted, and reimagined. This issue’s Artist Project, Spirit of Apollo by Simon Fuh, is accompanied by a curatorial text by Sanaa Humayun. Read the editorial by Steph Wong Ken and select features available now on our website.

C153 Features:
Artificial Artefacts – Michelle Bui and Shellie Zhang in conversation
AKA and Jin Jin Cuisine – by Tak Pham
Linda Mae’s: An Architectural Past Life – Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong
The Spatial Imaginaries of Karen Tam 譚嘉文 – by Charlene K. Lau
Queer Asian Diaspora as Sensibility: A Conversation With Rachel Lau of Queer Reads Library – by amanda wan
Vancouver Photohistory and the Politics of Disappearance – by Godfre Leung
Resisting Either/Or: Shanzhai Photogrammetry – by Linda Zhang and Peter Sealy
A Garden in Chinatown on Indigenous Land – by Shawn Tse

Read Jialu Zheng and Yantong Li’s review of Judy Jheung’s ComposingYou_Chinatown at Museum of Vancouver, also released online, along with letters reflecting on Issue 152 “Extraction.” Check out the table of contents for a full list of reviews and columns in Issue 153.

For full access to C Issue 153 “Chinatown” purchase a Print, Digital, or Print & Digital Subscription. Subscribers support our work and ensure C’s ongoing success as a forum for meaningful, pluralistic, and historically-engaged conversations about contemporary art.

C Magazine, established in 1984, is a contemporary art and criticism periodical that functions as a forum for significant ideas in art and its contexts. Each issue explores a theme that is singularly engaged with emerging and prevailing perspectives through original art writing, criticism and artists’ projects. Our content focuses on the activities of contemporary art practitioners residing in Canada and Canadian practitioners living abroad—with an emphasis on those from Black, Indigenous, diasporic and other equity-seeking communities—as well as on international practices and dialogues.

C Magazine
PO Box 5 Stn B
Toronto, ON M5T 2T2
info@cmagazine.com
(416) 539-9495

@cmagazineart on facebook
@cmagazineart on instagram