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. 2 / Artist Run CentreHolding the Hands of Her AncestorsAudie Murray disrupts time in her creationsBy Quill Christie-Peters’Bundled Objects’ – repurposed braided fabric, found cinder blocks, quartz. Photo credit: Isaac Forsland.Share ArticleThe world feels like it moves so fast sometimes. Within the context of incessant settler colonial violence, hyper-production, and immersive capitalism, we are so often robbed …

Vol. 7, No. 1 / Artist Run CentreMending Cracks: Reaching BeyondTrauma, healing and art makingBy Raghavendra Rao KVMending Cracks: Reaching Beyond.Share ArticleThe central theme of this series is disability, trauma and the complex process of recovery. It began with work that emerged out of my own experience in the 2001 earthquake in Kutch, India, when I was buried under rubble …

Vol. 6, No. 2 / Artist Run CentreNo Movement Without a BeginningExploring political pasts/presents in kathak dance in Ottawa and BangaloreBy Arpita BajpeyiImage Credit: Arvind Sridhar.Share ArticleWe started with questions. Many, many questions. Weeks before I was leaving Bangalore to move back to Ottawa, Mridula Rao, my friend and dance teacher of three years, sat down on the bed in the …

Vol. 6, No. 2 / Artist Run CentreRepetition is PracticeThe art of P. MansaramArt by P. Mansaram; Text by Indu Vashist (Co-Curator) and Toleen Touq (Co-Curator)The Art Museum at the University of Toronto P. Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium February 2 – March 23, 2019P. Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium. The Art Museum at the University of Toronto. February …

Vol. 6, No. 1 / Artist Run CentreCultured Pallets: Translating the GlobalSoheila K. Esfahani’s Cultured Pallets reveals the complexities of mass circulation that so readily define this era of networked living.Text by Noa Bronstein; Art by Soheila K. EsfahaniCultured Pallets KW stenciled recycled wooden pallets approx. 60ft x 5inx 40in, 2011Share ArticleIt all happens so fast. Commodities move speedily across the …

Vol. 5, No. 4 / Artist Run CentreCyclical Pasts and Futures[inspired by "I’m British But…"]Art and text by Jagdeep Singh RainaArt by Jagdeep Singh Raina.Share ArticleThe year is 1988 and the British film director, Gurinder Chadha, of Punjabi-Sikh, Kenyan South Asian descent, walks through the streets of Southall, a working-class town on the outskirts of West London, United Kingdom, home …

Vol. 5, No. 2 / Artist Run CentreFruitful Lives and DeathsThe Art of Farrah Marie Miranda and the Question of DignityArt by Farrah Marie Miranda; text by Tara AtluriAll images. Farrah Marie Miranda. 2017 © Title: Speaking Fruit Artist and Conception by: Farrah Marie Miranda Mobile, roadside fruit stand and design studio With: Evelyn Encalada, Gabriel Allahuda (Justice for Migrant Farmworkers), …

Vol. 5, No. 1 / Artist Run CentreDear NaniBy Zinnia NaqviRyerson Artspace, Toronto July 6 – July 30, 2017Share Article Colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed recognizable Other – Homi Bhabha Dear Nani is a project that addresses issues of gender performance and colonial mimicry through the family archive. The photographs included in this project are of my …

Vol. 5, No. 1 / Artist Run CentreFair PlayArt by Ali Kazimi; Text by Indu VashistAll images: Ali Kazimi ©Share Article I wanted to bring to life these moments that have no visual record. – Ali Kazimi All images: Ali Kazimi ©At the turn of the 20th century, responding to mounting racial tensions in British Columbia, the Canadian government restricted …