About this issue

Rungh Redux, an award winning, archive web platform is the focus of this issue of Rungh. Our journey with Rungh Redux began a few years ago as we struggled with how to make Rungh’s archive print issues more accessible and linked to the current Rungh platform.

In two separate articles, by Simon Wharton and Frank Hangler, the journey from concept, to various iterations, through testing and design, led to Rungh Redux becoming a platform which won the 2022 British Columbia Museum Association Award of Merit.

As Rungh continues to activate its archive, we share with you the 1992 Rungh Magazine launch documentation, along with a reflection by Rahat Kurd that interrogates the tensions between our fast paced digital media lives with the “older and slower forms of discourse”, continuing Rungh’s efforts to bridge pasts and futures.

The Artist Run Centre features the work of Rocio Graham who foregrounds relationality and challenges ethnography in her photo-based series Cultivando raíces con sueños compartidos (Growing roots from shared dreams), while Sonia Tao examines explosive arpilleras at the Jackman Humanities Institute.

Bob Marley, Lillian Allen, and Ali Kazimi are also featured in this issue. At Rungh, we know how to rocksteady.