About this issue

How is healing to take place amongst and between histories of slavery and colonialism?

Nooshfar Afnan writes about Charles Campbell’s How many colours has the sea at the Power Plant Gallery as Campbell talks about breath and compressing 400 years of transatlantic crossing, two million lives, into “punctuated moments."

Ashley Marshall asks questions about the relationships between burnt sugar and the relations of migration in her reflection upon Burnt Sugar, an exhibition curated by francesca ekwuyasi at Critical Distance. Marshall also writes about Underbelly at Patel Brown where artists Anique Jordan and Fred Moten engage in a conversation hosted by Dr. Evelyn Amponsah (see if you can spot Charles Campbell in one of the photographs of the event).

Phinder Dulai reviews Johanna Ogden’s book Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River which links Indian migration in the 1900s to the West Coast of North America (British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California) and histories of revolution in the Ghadar movement. Histories which still have resonance today.

The Artist Run Centre in this issue includes the zine In Each Other’s Image created by artists Serena Lukas Bhandar, Farheen Haq, Shelly Bahl and Zinnia Naqvi. The zine was created and published as part of a multi-month Rungh Archive Creation Residency which explored Rungh’s archive. Rungh’s Artist Run Centre section is a riff on the “artist run centre” movement which emerged in Canada during the 1960s and 70s. Since Rungh never had a physical gallery space of its own in 1992-1999, the centre four-page spread of the print Rungh Magazine (1992-1999) was given over to artists to create and publish what they wished – a centre (section) run by artists - an artist run centre.

At Rungh, we centre artists, then and now.