Contributors: Hiba Ali, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Anique Jordan, Robin Alex McDonald, Harrison Saulnier, Taklif: تکلیف, Devin West, Amy Wong, Kimberly Wong, Florence Yee
Edited by Henry Heng Lu and Anne-Sophie Grenier
Within the framework of the 10th anniversary of Syphon, Modern Fuel looks to the past, the present and the future in relation to their programming and to the world that we all live in. For this issue, 5.1: My Life is Not Your _______., Modern Fuel invited local and national femme-identifying and non-binary artists, community organizers, and other cultural practitioners to reflect on the urgencies of making collective and individual subjectivities, and to propose multiple approaches to taking up spaces, both in the physical sense and on an ideological level, through conversations, writings and visual art projects. Syphon 5.1 is a platform for these important and distinctive voices that are situated at the intersection of contemporary art and social practices, and further, asks the readers to consider how activism informs artistic discourse and its many possible manifestations in the present day.