04: Interrupt, Reframe

Silence and erasure. The underbelly of dominant narratives is the history that has been removed or rendered invisible in the process. “Stories help us to be human,” writes author Lee Maracle. “They cannot be property in the same way that Europeans view their written word.” The Interrupt, Reframe issue has encouraged FOLD’s editors to rethink the notion of a historical reference. What narratives are missing in predominant recorded histories of architecture? How can the written review be reframed?

Three talented Guest Editors have contributed to this issue: Sikmoh Kokomii, Ana María Durán Calisto and Ipek Türelli have brought together a unique mix of authors that together interrupt multiple dominant narratives.

The essays encourage readers to think about the physical evidence of presence and non-visible architecture, as Calgary author and filmmaker Cheryl Foggo so adeptly describes.  Shuar poet María Clara Sharupi Juá reveals a cultural relationship with the environment that’s been lost with colonial occupation in the Amazon. Calgary author and publisher Jason EagleSpeaker’s essay challenges a rethink of the dominanat format of a “review” with an underlying call to revisit colonial assumptions.

Interrupt, Reframe is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as with the support of Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.  A special thank you to FOLD editors Christina Amaral-Kim, Sergio Veyzaga, Floyd Black Horse, Lisa Wambaa, Sue-Shane Tsomondo, Alicia Ta, Hyeseung Jung and Emily Cargan. We encourage you to read and listen to each of the stories. May they nourish a reframing of history with a new lens, with multiple points of entry. —amery Calvelli.