Editor’s Note

RYTHÂ KESSELRING
La journaliste Claire-Marine Beha raconte comment l’artiste multidisciplinaire canado-suisse Ryth Kesselring fait converger le potentiel d’archive vivante du textile et la puissance évocatrice du son.

PERSISTENT OBJECTS
A conversation between artist, writer, and educator jamilah malika abu-bakare and artist and researcher Soledad Muñoz on the political memory work of objects.

THE JOURNEY: CANADIAN VOICES AT CONTEMPORANIA
Jewellery artist, curator, and writer Marie-Eve G. Castonguay highlights the incredible Canadian talent at CONTEMPORANIA Barcelona, taking place from October 2 to 4, 2025, at Palau de Pedralbes. 

COLE SWANSON: SOUNDSCAPES WITH MORE THAN HUMAN RELATIONS
Interim Editor-in-Chief Lera Kotsyuba examines the soundscapes and material possibilities in the installations of Cole Swanson.

FORM AND TIMBRE: THE CYMBALS OF PHILIPPE GAUTHIER-BOUDREAU
Ethnomusicologist and curator Daniel Neill gives us a glimpse of how cymbals are made.

THE CRAFTED POLITICAL
Journalist and contributing Studio editor Nehal El-Hadi explores politically engaged craft.

PORTFOLIO
Michelle Sound (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Thierry André (Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec)
Katrina Craig (Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Treaty 1 Territory)
Claire Anderson (Vancouver, British Columbia)

UNRAVELLING THE CANON: TEXTILE EXHIBITIONS AND THE LIMITS OF INSTITUTIONAL IMAGINATION
Curator and museum consultant Armando Perla shares their relational curatorial approach through a critique of four exhibitions.