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Athena Lucie AssambaNKUL NNAM, vue de performance, OFFTA, Montréal, 2026. Photo : David Wong

Afrofuturismes et identités plurielles au OFFTA 2026 

Philippe Couture
Review Webzine Performing Arts Athena Lucie Assamba dada Flame Ghinwa Yassine

Aesthetics and Politics: Can Pedagogy Be Saved?

Louis Boulet
Digital Residency Open access Banksy

Crawling, or Undoing Verticality

Georgia Phillips-Amos
Digital Residency Open access Daina Ashbee Dana Michel karen elaine spencer Shannon Finnegan William Pope.L
Laarm de Plœrs

Laarm de Plœrs

Christian Saint-Pierre
Review Webzine Performing Arts Christian Lapointe

Esse 117 – Crip

117 – Crip Video Issue Presentation
Po B. K. Lomami
Endling 09 (In Presence)

Glimpsing the Future Through Crip Joy

Sylvette Babin
117 – Crip Editorial
In a dark room, a light source illuminates Jes Sachse, a non-binary artist wearing colorful clothes, who is seated. They are holding a pipette to their lips. A microphone is placed to their right.

jes sachse, the agitative-propagandist

Christina Oyawale
117 – Crip Feature jes sachse
The right wall of the exhibition hall features a mural. On the left wall, the words CREATIVE GROWTH are written in graffiti style. The walls are pale purple. The floor is gray. The ceiling is white with a black circle whose center is white.

Access Granted: Some Thoughts for the Future

Jessie Myfanwy Stainton
117 – Crip Feature William Scott
A black cube rests on a white surface at one of its vertices. Small black cubes have been placed on the faces of the cube to create a braille text.

Decelerating Museological Experience Through Touch

Matthew Ryan Smith
117 – Crip Feature Kyungmin Kate Lee Olivia Brouwer
Two red blood collection tubes protrude from the mouth of a resuscitation mannequin. Another red tube hangs from the mannequin's chest. The words GOOD CRIPPLE are visible on its chest.

Exposed Flesh: Crip Tech Iconographies of Posthuman Eroticism

Chiara Rauli
117 – Crip Feature Alice Sheppard Laurel Lawson Panteha Abareshi
The walls of a small room are covered with white pegboard. The floor of the room has different shades of yellow. A white table is in the center of the room. A yellow measuring tape is on top of it. Above the table, a cabinet made of white pegboard is attached to the wall. A drawing of an airplane and an illustration of Jesus are on top of the cabinet. To the left of the table, three life-size photographs of wooden crutches and an hourglass are leaning against the wall. To the right of the table, there is a life-size photograph of a pair of shoes, a blue box, and an image of the globe.

Crippled Chronicles

David Elliott
117 – Crip Feature David Elliott
An individual dressed in black and blue is leaning over pebbles scattered around a room. The scene takes place in a space with a grey floor and white walls.

Shifting the Voice: A Crip Approach to Vocality

Maël Forlini
117 – Crip Feature Anaïs Ghedini Lou Chavepayre No Anger
Quilted fabrics in pink, orange, yellow, green, and black are scattered around a white room. To the right and left of the room, the fabrics are suspended in the air by straps. In the center of the room, the fabrics have been placed on the floor. At the far end of the room, a black sign displays PITIDOS DE AUDIFONOS in white letters.

Hac Vinent’s Disca and Cuir Meshes

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernández
117 – Crip Feature Hac Vinent
12 paintings are arranged on a black wall. They are placed in four columns, each containing three paintings. All the paintings are on a blue background. The first column on the left consists of three paintings depicting a person in a wheelchair, painted with different shades of magenta. The second column consists of three paintings depicting a figure in motion, painted with orange hues. The fourth column consists of three paintings depicting a figure in motion, painted with blue, green, and magenta. The third column consists of three paintings depicting a figure in different shades of blue, either sitting in a chair or bent over. The person is in motion.

Disabled Habitus

Emery Vanderburgh
117 – Crip Feature Emery Vanderburgh
On a large white wall, a work composed of four panels is installed. The leftmost panel consists of four pieces of fabric in different shades of pink. Photographs of hands and female bodies are attached to the textiles. Part of the leftmost panel overlaps slightly with the panel to its right. This panel features large, textured, rounded shapes in shades of pale pink against a rectangular beige background. The panel to its right is similar, but the shades of pink are darker, and two legs can be discerned through the large rounded shapes. A negative of three hands is positioned between the two panels. The final panel on the right is smaller. It is a beige fabric with three monochrome photographs. The photographs individually depict legs, a stretcher, and an arm.

Caroline Mauxion

Lucie Camous
117 – Crip Portfolio Caroline Mauxion
In a white room, chairs and low tables were arranged in an orderly fashion on a brown rectangle with various cylindrical and cubic sculptures.

Rad Hourani

Manon Tourigny
117 – Crip Portfolio Rad Hourani
On a surface with orange, green, and yellow patterns, a silver figurine of a child sits inside a yellow velvet hexagon. A syringe and a small black pouch are placed near the yellow hexagon. The phrase IF IGNORANCE IS BLESS, YOU MUST BE ORGASMIC is written in white on a colored rectangle to the left of the hexagon.

Sharona Franklin

Anne-Marie Dubois
117 – Crip Portfolio Sharona Franklin
In a dimly lit room, two persons of African descent are seated behind a table covered with a silver tablecloth. The person on the right is wearing colorful clothes and holds a long stick in their left hand. The person on the left is wearing a white smock and is displaying the contents of a cauldron in front of them. Several bowls are scattered across the table. To the right of the table, a floor lamp shines its light forward.

Po B. K. Lomami

Abigail E. Celis
117 – Crip Portfolio Po B. K. Lomami
Maggy-Hamel-Metsos

Dans l’atelier de Maggy Hamel-Metsos

Hanss Lujan Torres
117 – Crip Column Dans l’atelier Maggy Hamel-Metsos
Suzy Lake

Tête à tête with Suzy Lake

Daniel Fiset
117 – Crip Column Interview Tête à tête Tête à tête Suzy Lake
Vue d'exposition, Duo, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montréal, 2025.Photo : Jean-Michael Seminaro, permission des
artistes & de la Galerie
Nicolas Robert, Montréal

Monique Mongeau & Guy Pellerin
Duo

Laurier Lacroix
117 – Crip Review Guy Pellerin Monique Mongeau
Kyle Alden Martens Split Hairs, vue d’exposition, Diagonale, Montréal, 2026. Photo : Mike Patten, permission de l’artiste

Kyle Alden Martens
Split hairs

Dominique Sirois-Rouleau
117 – Crip Review Kyle Alden Martens
Mareike Yin-Yee Lee & Marc Sabat HANDS to MOUTHS, 2018, vue d’installation, Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI), Montréal, 2026. Photo : David Wong

Wayfinders : au gré des sens 

Janick Burn
117 – Crip Review Carmen Papalia Collin van Uchelen Marc Sabat Mareike Yin-Yee Lee Véro Leduc
Béchard Hudon
Monologue de la forêt, vues d’exposition, Galerie UQO, Gatineau, 2026.
Photo : permission des artistes

Béchard Hudon
Monologue de la forêt

Julie Alary Lavallée
117 – Crip Review Béchard Hudon
Huy Lam Yield, 2024, installation view, 2025. Photo: courtesy of the artists & United Contemporary, Toronto

Huy Lam & Rod Mireau
Present. Tense.

Qing Sheng
117 – Crip Review Huy Lam Rod Mireau
Sinara Rozo-Perdomo What It Takes To Live, exhibition views, A Space Gallery, Toronto, 2025. Photo: Selina Whittaker, courtesy of the artist & A Space Gallery, Toronto

Sinara Rozo-Perdomo
What It Takes To Live

Marco Antonio Giovanetti
117 – Crip Review Sinara Rozo-Perdomo
Natia LemayWhat the Edge Knows, installation view, CIBC Square, Toronto, 2025. Photo: LF Documentation, courtesy of the artist & CIBC

Natia Lemay
What the Edge Knows

Adam Lauder
117 – Crip Review Natia Lemay
Nairy Baghramian nameless, exhibition views, WIELS, Brussels, 2025. Photo: Eline Willaert, courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery; Hauser & Wirth; & Kurimanzutto

Nairy Baghramian
nameless

Gabriela Anco
117 – Crip Review Nairy Baghramian
CFGNY Continuous Fractures Generating New Yields, 2025, installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2026. Photo: Ron Amstutz

Whitney Biennial

Tak Pham
117 – Crip Review Akira Ikezoe CFGNY Cooper Jacoby David L. Johnson Emilio Martínez Poppe Margaret Honda Nanibah Chacon Sung Tieu
Marina Perez Simão Untitled, 2024–25, installation view, Bukhara Biennial, Bukhara, 2025. Photo: Felix Odell, courtesy of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation

Bukhara Biennial
Recipes for Broken Hearts

Alice Xinyi Lin
117 – Crip Review David Soin Tappeser Delcy Morelos Kei Imazu Marina Perez Simão Oyjon Khayrullaeva
Tania Candiani
Prologue II. Resonant Blossoms, installation view, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2025.
Photo: courtesy of the artist; Vermelho Gallery; & Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Shanghai Biennale
Does the flower hear the bee

Tianmo Zhang
117 – Crip Review Chen Ruofan Christine Sun Kim Guillermo Calzadilla Haegue Yang Jennifer Allora Lotus L. Kang Tan Jing Tania Candiani
Amanda Cachia The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique, cover, 2025. Photo: courtesy of Temple University Press, Philadelphia

The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique

Charlotte Jacob-Maguire
117 – Crip Review Publication Amanda Cachia
Marie J. Jean 1985. Mondes-images, couverture, VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal, 2025. Photo : VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal

1985. Mondes-images

Bernard Lamarche
117 – Crip Review Publication Marie J. Jean
Filipa Ramos The Artist as Ecologist: Contemporary Art and the Environment, couverture et pages intérieures, Lund Humphries, Londres, 2025. Photo : Lund Humphries, Londres

The Artist as Ecologist: Contemporary Art and the Environment

Kaysie Hawke
117 – Crip Review Publication Filipa Ramos
Passion simple au Théâtre de Quat’Sous, Montréal, 2026

Passion simple

Christian Saint-Pierre
Review Webzine Performing Arts Brigitte Haentjens Julie Le Breton
In a room painted pink, a television is mounted on a metal pole. The television projects wavy shapes in pink, red, white, and orange. Two black headphones are plugged into the television.

The Oxymoron of the Body

Jessica Ragazzini
117 – Crip Feature Adelaide Damoah Anouk Verviers Georgie Wileman

BROS

Christian Saint-Pierre
Review Webzine Performing Arts Romeo Castellucci
Susanna Inglada
All Parts Of Us

Susanna Inglada
All Parts Of Us

Gabriela Anco
Review Webzine Susanna Inglada
Tupqan. Nos territoires intérieurs

Tupqan | Nos territoires intérieurs

Christian Saint-Pierre
Review Webzine Performing Arts Auen Menuentakuan Ondinnok
Cole Swanson

Cole Swanson
Lithic Life

Giovanni Aloi
Review Webzine Cole Swanson
Olivia Vidmar

Privileging Non-Human Persistence

Olivia Vidmar
Digital Residency Open access Basma Alsharif Christoph Keller Corinne Silva Edward Burtynsky Fritz Haeg Jérôme Fortin Jolene Rickard Rebecca Belmore
Ruth Asawa
A Retrospective, 2025

Ruth Asawa
A Retrospective

Giovanni Aloi
Review Webzine Ruth Asawa

Esse 116 – Immersion

116 – Immersion Video Issue Presentation
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin & Caroline Laurin-Beaucage
Une eau la nuit

Diving in… and Resurfacing

Sylvette Babin
116 – Immersion Editorial
Kurt Hentschläger FEED X

The Immersion Problem

Jose Luis de Vicente
116 – Immersion Feature Char Davies David Hockney Kurt Hentschläger Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Dries Depoorter
Recharge XL, 2024-2025.

No Exit: Digital Life and Its Endless Immersion

Kristen Lewis
116 – Immersion Feature Dries Depoorter Kate Crawford Trevor Paglen
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
The Call, 2024.

AI Art Against Immersion and Addictive Design

Kevin T. Day
116 – Immersion Feature Holly Herndon Lauren Lee McCarthy Mat Dryhurst
Kaël Mercader
Gros et détail, 2025

Body, Environment, Affects: A Few Extensions of Immersion

Patrice Loubier
116 – Immersion Feature doux soft club Ernesto Neto Gregor Schneider Kaël Mercader Yayoi Kusama
Malcolm McCormick
Good Luck Lullaby (détail de l’arrière), 2025. 
Photo : permission de l'artiste & Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

Malcolm McCormick’s “Restricted Immersion”

Qing Sheng
116 – Immersion Feature Malcolm McCormick
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin & Caroline Laurin-Beaucage 
Une eau la nuit, 2021.

Immersed within Immersion: Bodies of Water

Tania Gallinaro
116 – Immersion Feature Caroline Laurin-Beaucage Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin
Julie Faubert
Nous sommes au cinéma, 2024-2025.

Nous sommes au cinéma: An Immersive Laboratory of Listening-body-place

Caroline Gagné
Magali Babin
Oana Avasilichioaei
116 – Immersion Feature George Bures Miller Janet Cardiff Julie Faubert Zimoun
Geneviève Matthieu et Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre au Musée d’art de Joliette, 2025.

Dans l’atelier de Geneviève Matthieu

Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre
116 – Immersion Column Interview Dans l’atelier Geneviève Matthieu
Nelly-Eve Rajotte
Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz, capture vidéo, 2024.
Effets visuels : Codrin Mihail-Tablan.
Photo : permission de l’artiste

Nelly-Eve Rajotte

Aurélie Besson
116 – Immersion Portfolio Nelly-Eve Rajotte

Tête à tête with Gilles Mihalcean

Charles Guilbert
116 – Immersion Column Interview Tête à tête Gilles Mihalcean
Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Mulan, vue d’installation,
Times Square, New York, 2024.
Photo : Edwina Hay, permission de l'artiste

Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Amelia Wong-Mersereau
116 – Immersion Portfolio Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Ryoji Ikeda
C4I, 2004-2006.

Ryoji Ikeda

Joëlle Dubé
116 – Immersion Portfolio Ryoji Ikeda
L’eau du bain
De glace, vue du spectacle, Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts, Ottawa, 2022.
Photo : Karine Galarneau, permission des artistes

L’eau du bain

Émilie Martz-Kuhn
116 – Immersion Portfolio L’eau du bain
I

Irene F. Whittome
I am here

Sylvette Babin
116 – Immersion Review Irene F. Whittome
Panic Room... Pièces de survie, vue

Panic Room… Pièces de survie

Anne-Marie Dubois
116 – Immersion Review Jacinthe Loranger Kim Dorland Patrick Bérubé
Nico Williams, Zhi-biindiged gwaya

Nico Williams
Bingo

Lodoe Laura
116 – Immersion Review Nico Williams
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