Themes of m o v e m e n t,
me
mo
ry, histories,
and archives
a n i m a t e this
eleventh SDUK broadsheet,
PACING. In the first issue of
2022, contributors
amplify
and e x p a n d on
themes
found
throughout
Blackwood programs
here engaging the pace of reading and writing that is unique to publishing.
Through a range of forms,
contributors to this issue speculate
on
publications,
archives,
and
file repositories
as means for building
collective memory.
Given the often violent and
colonial
origins of these forms,
how are
Black culture workers navigating
archives and collections?
In a roundtable discussion, Cleopatria Peterson and Adwoa Afful discuss how the respective print and digital platforms they
have founded aim to counter
p e r s i s t e n t erasures
of Black
cultural production.
The Iyapo Repository,
founded by Salome Asega and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, engages a similar practice:
the artists work with participants to build an experimental counter-archive of Black futures. Iyapo Repository’s methods are expounded on in an essay by Okunseinde, which includes a new call to contribute.
The ongoing pandemic has
energized
activist movements and re-enlivened stagnant or dormant
organizing practices.
In light of rising, b r o a d - s c a l e
mo ve ment - b uil d ing
in the GTHA and throughout North America,
how are activist histories
being reenacted, revived, and
protected?
Mostafa Henaway reflects on the recent
re-emergence
of unionization in the unlikeliest of workplaces—such as Amazon
and Dollarama.
He shows how labour organizers have drawn on histories of struggle to adapt to new conditions
of precarity.
Maandeeq Mohamed
examines
parallel movements in
eviction defense,
tenant rights, and
Indigenous land defense;
in her telling, common tactics are shared through past and present movements that intervene in capitalism’s relentless pace.
Some readers might immediately
latch on to
p a c i n g
as a familiar practice
of walking and thinking.
Given increasing understandings and recognition of the
interconnectedness between
body and mind,
how are
scholars and artists connecting
movement practices to thought?
Tasha Beeds’ essay links Anishinaabe teachings
to
water-walking
as a powerful act
of sovereignty, relationship-building, and environmental defense.
Excerpted poetry
by Cecily Nicholson engages the automotive pace of
oil-produced landscapes:
the s p a c e s of
highways,
cities,
and border
crossings.
Janelle Joseph and Debra Kriger share their framework for decolonizing kinesiology,
bringing systemic and
structural racism to bear
on the way
clients inhabit and move their bodies.
If substantial and s tr uct ural
transformations are
proposed across many contributions to this issue,
one might ask: How can change be rooted in reimagining our relationships to one another?
In the final column of a series, Jacob Wren
speculates on
long-term organizing amid
the continuity of money, punishment, and competition as perpetual sowers of division. Lee Su-Feh and Bracken Hanuse Corlett discuss
the l o n g - t e r m
relationship-building
that led to the creation of a carved mask.
In text,
images,
and a subsequent
performance score,
Su-Feh discusses the complex
relations
to land and culture that were elicited by the mask.
In a poetic text
and series of drawings, Oana Avasilichioaei
contemplates
her material
and embodied relations to s o u n d —
as a medium that reverberates, echoes, and shapes the spaces it fills—
in the development of a new artwork.
The issue concludes
with
a glossary
that
e x p a n d s,
con
nec
ts,
and clarifies
terms used throughout the
broadsheet.
See
the glossary section of this website for additional links between
glossary terms,
editorial questions
included in this introduction,
and ongoing programs
and research.
This text has been scored by Oana Avasilichioaei in the second of her editorial interventions into the SDUK broadsheet series.