BlackFlash Spring/Summer 2026

“In my time at BlackFlash, we’ve persistently renegotiated the magazine’s identity, careening between vestigial past eras while plotting a future course, all during the long middle of an epic decline in print publishing. We’ve chewed over the very real limitations of print and sought to reconcile these drawbacks with our desire to hold the magazine in hand. These internal questions are curiously echoed across this issue, suggesting a collective unease around the dematerialized present. What are we to make of this desire to reverse course, to put up fences, this drift towards intimacy over scale?”
– Madeline Bogoch, Editorial Note: Off Leash

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EDITORIAL NOTE:
Off Leash
Madeline Bogoch, Editor

ARTIST PROFILE:
Profile: Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw
Lauren Lavery

ARTIST PROJECT:
Mundane Harmony
Tobin Rowland

ARTIST PROFILE:
Tungkol Sa Amin: Khim Mata Hipol
Nawang Tsomo Kinkar

ARTIST PROFILE:
Joyce Joumaa: Prologue to Future Possibilities
Michael Davidge

FEATURE:
Writing Black Canadian Art
Yaniya Lee

FEATURE:
Weaving distance into relation: String Games at the Bonavista Biennale and Verde-Distância at the Bienal das Amazônias
Julia Eilers Smith

DIGITAL PROJECT:
The Backroom
Moni Omubor

CONVERSATION:
The Sublime as Rupture: In conversation with Annie MacDonell
Lodoe Laura

Cover: Annie MacDonell, Ego Death Trip, 2022. UV printing on pleated dibond, 15′ x 5′. Image courtesy of the artist.

BlackFlash is grateful to Canada Council for the Arts and SK Arts for the production and dissemination of this issue.