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Reviews and musings about books, art exhibitions, music, performance, the archive and more. Opinionated since 1992.
Vol. 9 No. 2
Representing “The Indigenous Experience”By Evelyn Pakinewatik
Cousins and Kin Program at DOXA 2021.
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Vol. 9 No. 2
Mermaid, Pilgrim, SpectatorBy Aaditya Aggarwal
Rasha Salti Curates a Deep Sea Cinema.
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Vol. 9 No. 2
The Metaphorical Life of FinchesBy Phinder Dulai
Tolu Oloruntoba's Each One a Furnace reviewed.
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Vol. 9 No. 2
Reconciliation as a Massive FailureBy Bruce McIvor
Bruce McIvor challenges Canada's big lie.
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Vol. 9 No. 1
Punjab, Punjabi, PunjabiyatBy Anne Murphy
Understanding language, geography and belonging.
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Vol. 9 No. 1
The Voiceless SpeakBy David Austin
Grada Kilomba's Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism reviewed.
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Vol. 9 No. 1
Holding Space for Beauty and BlacknessBy Ashley Marshall
Is Love a Synonym for Abolition? reviewed.
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Vol. 9 No. 1
Intrinsically Tied to ReciprocityBy Phinder Dulai
Selina Boan's Undoing Hours reviewed.
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Vol. 8 No. 2
Playing with RefusalBy Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot
Divya Mehra's From Canada to India and back to Canada (There is nothing I can possess which you cannot take away) reviewed.
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Vol. 8, No. 2
Other Forms of Being TogetherBy David McGonigal-Videla
Jin-me Yoon installation reviewed.
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Vol. 8 No. 1
Foreign Object in the House of Canadian LiteratureBy Annahid Dashtgard
A reflection by Annahid Dashtgard.
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Vol. 8 No. 1
New Cartographies: Power to the Young PeopleBy Ashley Marshall
Three-Thirty Exhibition at Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 2020.
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Vol. 8 No. 1
A Return of a New MedeaBy Rebecca Peng
Myths of heroism and desire in Laiwan’s Tender.
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Vol. 8 No. 1
Oratory to the PageBy Phinder Dulai
Jillian Christmas' the gospel of breaking reviewed.
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Vol. 7 No. 4
Authorization for the Fire: Between Possession and EmbodimentBy Helena Martin Franco
Helena Martin Franco reflects on a Primary Colours residency.
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Vol. 7 No. 4
Suspended SoulsBy Mathilde Benignus
Three performances and an embodied talk by Soleil Launière.
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Vol. 7 No. 3
Hummingbirds and Sleeping BuffaloBy Charles Campbell
Charles Campbell reflects on a Primary Colours residency
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Vol. 7 No. 3
Interrogating our Conflation of Authenticity with CertaintyBy Rebecca Peng
Mercedes Eng's my yt mama reviewed.
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Vol. 7 No. 3
No Drone Zone, Pushing Stylistic BoundariesBy Conner Singh VanderBeek
Mohamed Assani's Wayfinder reviewed.
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Vol. 7 No. 3
Creating in IsolationBy Stephanie Wong Ken
M:ST’s Bodily Response video series reviewed.
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Vol. 7 No. 3
Found in TranslationBy Conner Singh VanderBeek
Ruby Singh and the Khan Brothers' genre-bending musical collaboration.
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Vol. 7, No. 1
My Language, My DreamsBy Mercedes Webb
Indigenous language revitalization, practices, and epistemologies.
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Vol. 7, No. 1
Knowledge Exchange Across the Pacific OceanBy Amina Creighton-Kelly
Transits and Returns at the VAG reviewed.
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Vol. 7, No. 1
Stories, Truths and LiesBy Phinder Dulai
Anosh Irani Translated from the Gibberish reviewed.
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Vol. 6, No. 4
Changing Brands, Shifting Sites and SightsBy Conner Singh VanderBeek
A reflection on 5X Festival’s programming challenges.
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Vol. 6, No. 4
Fantasy of Acceptance in Bard on the Beach’s All’s Well That Ends Well?By Rusaba Alam
Rusaba Alam review from Bard on the Beach.
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Vol. 6, No. 4
Reorganizing Orientalist ConstructionsBy Himani Bannerji
Reflections on 'identity' and 'belonging'.
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Vol. 6, No. 3
Making Queer Pakistani Women Visible in Patthar Ki Zabaan.By Sanchari Sur
Sanchari Sur reviews Patthar Ki Zabaan at The Rhubarb Festival in Toronto.
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Vol. 6, No. 3
Kathak and Tap Dance ConverseBy Veena Gokhale
Veena Gokhale reviews Rhythm Rewritten at the Festival Acces Asie, Montréal.
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Vol. 6, No. 3
Material Questioning: Durrah Alsaif's Jawahir: JewelsBy Simranpreet Anand
Simanpreet Anand reviews Jawahir: Jewels at Deerlake Gallery, Burnaby, BC.
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Vol. 6, No. 3
Photos Perform India at the VAGBy Hussein Keshani
Hussein Keshani reviews Moving Still: Performative Photography in India at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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Vol. 6, No. 2
Countervailing at the MarginsBy Kiran Sunar
Acts of Refusal in Simranpreet Anand's ਮੈਂ ਇੱਥੇ ਹਾਂ (i am here).
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Vol. 6, No. 2
Claiming Visible SpaceBy Shagufta Pasta
Reflections on the Vancouver Mural Festival.
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Vol. 6, No. 1
Am I Dancing My Life Away?By Mandeep Wirk
Staged reading of Chivalry is Dead by playwright Munish Sharma at the 2018 Monsoon Festival reviewed.
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Vol. 6, No. 1
Identity Politics, Once AgainBy Am Johal
Am Johal review's Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity.
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Vol. 6, No. 1
The Trees are InnocentBy Charles Campbell
Charles Campbell reviews art by Sandra Semchuck and Ayumi Goto at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
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Vol. 5, No. 4
Difficult Realities: Divya Mehra's Difficult PeopleBy Simranpreet Anand
Performance review.
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Vol. 5, No. 4
Mythical Ambiguity and NiseiBy Carolyn Nakagawa
Kerri Sakamoto's Floating City reviewed by Carolyn Nakagawa.
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Vol. 5, No. 3
Versions of ContemporaneityBy Madiha Sikander and Rajarshi Sengupta
Revisiting the qualifier 'indigenous' in Many Visions, Many Versions by Madhia Sikander and Rajarshi Sengupta.
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Vol. 5, No. 3
A Rising Tide: Fighting Tamil Refugee Detention in CanadaBy Fathima Cader
Sharon Bala's The Boat People reviewed.
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Vol. 5, No. 3
South Asian Photography in FocusBy Hussein Keshani
Hussein Keshani reviews photo exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery.
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Vol. 5, No. 2
The Great Welcome: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy Zab Maboungou
When I received the invitation to participate in the great gathering that was Primary Colours this autumn in the city of Victoria in British Columbia, my feeling was above all that of remembrance.
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Vol. 5, No. 2
Multilayered EncounterBy Scheherazaad Cooper
Encounter tells the story of Dopdi Mehjen, an indigenous woman and necessity-driven revolutionary, who is eventually captured and tortured by the authorities.
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Vol. 5, No. 2
An Uncertain Latitude: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy David Garneau
I wonder about artistic privilege. The advantages, attention, and public money granted to select artists, but especially the social margin, passage, and exception we occasionally enjoy.
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Vol. 5, No. 2
We Continue to Walk: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy Samaqani Cocahq
And we continue to walk. Taking time to go to our medicines. To speak to our teachers. We do our ceremonies. And we continue to walk.
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Vol. 5, No. 1
ACT NOW on ReconciliationBy Mandeep Wirk
Cathy Busby's, WE CALL creates awareness, understanding, and dialogue around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's recommendations for reconciliation between Aboriginal peoples and settlers.
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Vol. 5, No. 1
Ghost BoysBy Mehjabeen Datoo
What choices do fifteen year-olds face in this world? What is at stake for them if they choose to speak out against what they know is wrong? The answer is, of course, completely different if you are a poor fifteen year-old Indian boy working for a cruel master on a camel farm or a fifteen year-old Canadian girl pulled out of school and brought to the desert with your scientist father.
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Vol. 5, No. 1
Untouchable KashmirBy Rahat Kurd
Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness reviewed.
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Vol. 5, No. 1
Arundhati Roy and Her Mission to InspireBy Ali Kazimi
Book Launch Event, June 22, 2017, Toronto.
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