Vol. 7, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsFound in TranslationRuby Singh and the Khan Brothers’ genre-bending musical collaborationBy Conner Singh VanderBeekShare ArticleJhalaak is a thumping, Rajasthani folk-inflected, qawwali-hip-hop-dance album born from a years-long collaboration between the Khan brothers of Rajasthan – 19th generation musicians of the Manganiyar tradition – and Vancouver-based rapper and emcee Ruby Singh. The album joins iconic …

Vol. 7, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsTrauma not spokenIrfan Ali’s Accretion reviewedBy Phinder DulaiAccretion By Irfan Ali Brick Books, 2020Share ArticleIrfan Ali’s first full length poetry book drifts into moments of the personal graphed onto cosmic love. Using tropes of the lover and beloved captured in Ali’s rendering of 12th century poet Nizami Ganjavi’s epic poem Layla and Majnun, …

Vol. 7, No. 3 / Reviews & ReflectionsHummingbirds and Sleeping BuffaloCharles Campbell reflects on a Primary Colours residencyBy Charles CampbellBanff Centre for the Arts Primary Colours Residency #1 April 15-28, 2018Image credit: ZS.Share ArticleResidency Participants: Charles Campbell, Hannah Claus, Michele Emslie, Ayumi Goto, Michelle Jacques, Elwood Jimmy, Soleil Launiere, Zab Maboungou, Helena Martin Franco, Ashok Mathur, Peter Morin, David Ng, …

Phinder Dulai reviews Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo. Book*hug Press, 2020.

Vol. 7, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsMy Language, My DreamsIndigenous language revitalization, practices, and epistemologiesBy Mercedes WebbTaskoch pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it) TRUCK Contemporary Art Moh’kins’stis/Calgary, Alberta November 1, 2019 to December 14, 2019 Curated by Missy LeBlancSusan Blight, “On the Occasion …

Vol. 7, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsRevisiting the UncannyIndu Antony’s While I Slept reviewedBy Ricky VargheseWhile I Slept Artist Indu Antony, Inaugural IArts Resident OCAD University, Ada Slaight Student Gallery Toronto, Ontario October 7 – 17, 2019Grange Park Antony. Artist: Indu Antony.Share ArticleThe question of emplacement, as in the question regarding how to place or locate oneself within any …

Vol. 7, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsStories, Truths and LiesAnosh Irani Translated from the Gibberish reviewedBy Phinder DulaiAnosh Irani’s latest book begins as auto fiction. You never really know if the protagonist in Translated from the Gibberish Part One is Irani himself, or a kind of persona that has a similar life trajectory as the author. There are poignant …

Vol. 7, No. 1 / Reviews & ReflectionsKnowledge Exchange Across the Pacific OceanTransits and Returns at the VAG reviewedBy Amina Creighton-KellyTransits and Returns Vancouver Art Gallery September 28, 2019 to February 23, 2020 Curated by Tarah Hogue, Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, with Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Freja Carmichael, Léuli Eshraghi and Lana Lopesi.Chantal Fraser, The Way, 2018 (detail)wind, …

Vol. 6, No. 4 / Reviews & ReflectionsReorganizing Orientalist ConstructionsReflections on ‘identity’ and ‘belonging’By Himani BannerjiBeyond Destinations.Share ArticleEditor’s note:Rungh Reprints is a new series of occasional archival reprints which will feature significant pieces of writing that need to be revisited to link pasts, presents and futures. In this essay, originally published in1993 in the catalogue for Beyond Destinations, Himani Bannerji …

Vol. 6, No. 4 / Reviews & ReflectionsExploring HonourA Mumbai Courtesan in MontréalBy Veena GokhaleHonour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan October 3-6, 2019, Montréal Arts Interculturels (MAI) Montréal, QuébecExploring Honour. Photo by Alex Waterhouse Hayward.Share ArticleHonour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan, defies stereotypes, upturns expectations and makes a strong appeal to your humanity. On stage we see the recreation of …