Vol. 7, No. 4 / ConversationsArchival BricolageMadhur Anand reflects on This Red Line Goes Straight to Your HeartSimranpreet Anand in e-conversation with Madhur AnandSimranpreet Anand: I want to begin by asking you about the partition. In your book you use the partition as a starting point (depending on how you begin reading the book), as a metaphor, and as a …

Vol. 7, No. 4 / PoetryBittersweetBy Natasha RamoutarBittersweet By Natasha Ramoutar Mawenzi House Publishers (2020)Share ArticleMany TonguesI do not speak in my mother’s tongue of exasperated sighs and soft laughs, those noises that sit side to slight smiles I do not speak the dialect of my grandmother, struggling to imitate her voice as she says yuh tek yuh eyes and …

Vol. 7, No. 4 / Poetry eat salt/ gaze at the oceanBy Junie DésilThis poem is excerpted from the collection eat salt/ gaze at the ocean by Junie Désil. Published by talonbooks (2020). Excerpt appears with permission from the publisher.Share ArticleI Can’t Breathewords gasped in death breathe life into Black Lives matter i have searched looked at the names those …

Vol. 7, No. 4 / FictionKambirinachiBy Francesca EkwuyasiButter Honey Pig Bread By Francesca Ekwuyasi Arsenal Pulp Press (2020) “Kambirinachi” is excerpted from the novel Butter Honey Pig Bread. Excerpt appears with permission from the publisher.Share ArticleKambirinachi If you ask Kambirinachi, this is how she’ll tell it: There was a spirit, a child, whose reluctance to be born, and subsequent boredom …

Vol. 7, No. 4 / Artist Run CentreCrafting IdentityHeidi McKenzie’s “Family Matters”Text by Lera Kotsyuba; Art by Heidi McKenzieHouse of Cards, 40cm x 60cm x 11.5cm, porcelain ceramic substrate, iron-oxide ceramic decal, 2019, photo credit, courtesy of Latcham Art Gallery.There is a familiarity and wonder to objects that you can hold in your hands. Heidi McKenzie’s work occupies the liminal …

Vol. 7, No. 4 / Artist Run CentreEmbodied EngagementsThe artwork of Jamelie Hassan and Soheila Esfahani in TranslationsText by Jenelle Pasiechnik; Art by Jamelie Hassan and Soheila EsfahaniJamelie Hassan, Habibye, (My love, male) & Habibitee (My love, female), glass mosaic tile mounted on plywood, 2018. Collection of the artist. Photo Credit: Sarmad Almouallem.Share ArticleAs curators and museum professionals, we often …

Vol. 7, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsNo Drone Zone, Pushing Stylistic BoundariesMohamed Assani’s Wayfinder reviewedBy Conner Singh VanderBeekShare articleMohamed Assani’s Wayfinder is a bold journey into the genre-bending potentials of musical fusion. Assani, a sitarist who is also trained in tabla and keyboard, initiates a series of conversations between Indian and Pakistani classical music, Middle Eastern music, jazz, electronic, …

Vol. 7, No. 3 / Artist Run CentreYellow Peril: Queer DestinyQueer Chinese diasporic culture celebratedBy David NgYellow Peril; The Celestial Elements. February 1 – April 18, 2020. SUM Gallery. #425 – 268 Keefer Street, Vancouver.Share ArticleWhen we conceptualized Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny (2019) and the film’s follow-up visual art exhibit, Yellow Peril; The Celestial Elements (2020), we wanted the Yellow …

Vol. 7, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsQueer, Desi and badassMeet Goonda rap duo Cartel MadrasBy Natasha RamoutarPhoto credit: Migle StaniskyteShare ArticleCartel Madras’ music is the type to meet you full force. Comprised of sisters Eboshi and Contra, the hip hop duo is sharp tongued, effortlessly spitting over instrumentals. From their striking visuals laden with rich gold and crimson hues, …

Vol. 7, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsCreating in IsolationM:ST’s Bodily Response video series reviewedBy Stephanie Wong KenJulianne Chapple, Women Appear (and sometimes they learn how to disappear).Share ArticleIn May 2020, Mountain Standard Time Performative Art (M:ST) launched a video series in response to the impact of COVID-19, Bodily Response. Amid cancelled gallery openings and events, as well as layoffs …