Vol. 9, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsHolding Space for Beauty and BlacknessIs Love a Synonym for Abolition? reviewed.By Ashley MarshallIsabel Okoro, (If you knew how we got here), 2020 Photo by Darren Rigo. Is Love a Synonym for Abolition? Artists: Isabel Okoro, Timothy Yanick Hunter Curator: Liz Ikiriko Supporting Scholar: Katherine McKittrick Location: Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto …

Vol. 9, No. 1 / PoetryThe Good ArabsBy Eli Tareq El Bechelany-LynchThe Good Arabs By Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch Metonymy Press (2021)Share ArticleMaa al SalamaWith age, we become more intimate, something that makes us both sweat if only we could speak more plainly, instead, we sweat and we sweat the past becomes the present when we speak it into existence …

Vol. 9, No. 1 / ColumnsArt Funding After Art JuriesPeer juries need to change.By David GarneauIndigenous Art Shaping Canadian Art. Acrylic on panel. 77 x 91 cm. 2021. Artist David Garneau.Share ArticleVisual art juries are esoteric gatherings. Select adepts meet in a dimly lit room, are sworn to secrecy, follow strict rituals, and attempt to shape the future. Huddled in Plato’s cave, …

Vol. 9, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsIntrinsically Tied to ReciprocitySelina Boan’s Undoing Hours reviewedBy Phinder DulaiUndoing Hours Selina Boan Nightwood Edition, 2021Share ArticleIn Selina Boan’s debut collection of poetry entitled Undoing Hours we are opened up to a way of experiencing this world through the journey of a white settler–nehiyaw poet seeking out her language, her family history and …

Vol. 8, No. 4 / ColumnsReason for PassionNew Column by David GarneauBy David GarneauJohn A. Macdonald. Altered found object. 22 x 22 x 6cm. 2007. #1 edition of five.Share ArticleI am conflicted about the recent vandalism and destruction of colonial statues and churches in Northern Turtle Island. As a visual artist and writer who tries to make meaningful and well-made …

Vol. 8, No. 4 / Artist Run CentreBurning SkinRoger Sinha’s personal vocabulary of movementBy Phil RobertsSinha Danse 2010 Thread Roger Sinha. Image credit: Michael Slobodian. Editor’s Note: Roger Sinha was first featured in Rungh in 1993 (“the colour of dance” Volume 2, No. 1&2). This article revisits Sinha and his creative journey.Share ArticleWhen Roger Sinha immigrated to Saskatoon from London, England …

Vol. 8, No. 4 / PoetryCOVID CarePoetry by Salimah ValianiBy Salimah ValianiImage Credit: Soheila Esfahani – Cultured Pallets.Share Article1 quarantined at first port of entry in sunny sardine Airbnb your 7 year old turns the glass box shower into COVEED lab fills out a form screening your symptoms and submits it to the Police you know then that the many …

Vol. 8, No. 4 / Artist Run CentreMiniature WorldsInterpreting folklore through found materialsBy Nimra and Manahil BandukwalaShells. Image credit: Nimra and Manahil Bandukwala.Share ArticleWe grew up collecting things in Karachi. From shells on the beach to our grandmother’s broken jewellery pieces, we stuffed drawers with materials that we used to create imaginary play worlds. As adults, we moved to Canada, …

Vol. 8, No. 4 / Reviews & Reflectionswe all begin in waterTracing rivers and Indigenous epistemologiesBy Hannah ClausPerformance of Karine Wasiana Echaquan in front of the artwork water song (Kinosipi) by Hannah Claus during the opening of the exhibition Of Tobacco and Sweetgrass. Where Our Dreams Are, Musée d’art de Joliette, February 2, 2019. Photo Credit: Romain Guilbault.Share ArticleEditor’s Note : …

Vol. 8, No. 4 / Artist Run CentreCaribou and Northern LightsNavarana Igloliorte stencils dreamscapes.By Navarana IgloliorteCaribou #1.Share ArticleI created this series of work at a residency at Griffin Art Projects in Vancouver in January/February 2021. In the fall of 2020, I was reading in the news about different protests in northern Canada and Alaska to protect the dwindling caribou herds …