Blackflash 42.3

BlackFlash is dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and innovative ideas about divergent artistic practices from across Canada, the United States and beyond. Each issue includes feature articles, profiles, interviews, and artist projects from a diverse selection of artists, writers, and curators. 

In this issue: Patterns

"In his novel of the same name, science fiction author William Gibson once described pattern recognition as a “gift and a trap,” which is a generous way of saying we search for meaning even when it may or may not exist." Issue 42.3 theme is an invitaiton to indulge in impulse, to look too closely, to find the signal in the noise. Some reatures include Jon Davies' joint profile of Kyle Alden Martens and B. Brookbank, "Your Voice My Throat" traces how the couple's distinct practises questions of intimacy and shares space and Nic Wilson's Holding For Index examines contronyms, words that carry opposing meanings through th visual language of concrete poetry and graphic scores. 

Saskatoon, Canada; 275mm x 210mm; 64 pages