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Terms of engagement : Averns, Feldman-Kiss, Stimson

Title

Terms of engagement : Averns, Feldman-Kiss, Stimson / essays by Christine Conley and Kirsty Robertson.

Publication

Kingston : Agnes Etherington Art Centre, [2014]
©2014

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63 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 27 cm

Summary

The Canadian Forces Artists Program (CFAP) was launched in 2001 to embed artists alongside Canadian troops. Unlike earlier official war art programs, CFAP does not exhibit or collect the work produced by artists who volunteer for the privileged access it offers. This publication documents work by three artists who have recently been deployed to conflict zones as CFAP participants. Dick Averns was hosted by the Multinational Force and Observers at North Base, Sinai, in Egypt during 2009; nichola feldman-kiss was embedded with the United Nations Mission in Sudan in 2011; and Adrian Stimson was stationed at Forward Operating Base Masum Ghar and Kandahar in Afghanistan in 2010. Working across the mediums of photography, video, sculpture and installation, the works in the exhibition reflect CFAP's arm's-length relationship with the military, which allows for greater independence of artistic expression. The artists are all conscious of the complex relation of culture to conflict, given their situation as embedded observers whose access to war zones depends upon military hospitality, protection and social networks. Compelled by narratives of genocide, the traumatic legacy of colonialism, and the War on Terror, the works presented here offer an encounter and critical engagement with Canada's place in the world. Co-published with Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery and the Esker Foundation.

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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, January 18 - March 9, 2014, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, April 26 - August 10, 2014, and the Esker Foundation, Calgary, September 27 - December 14, 2014.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Jan Allen, Ingrid Jenkner, Naomi Potter -- Selected works / Dick Averns -- Terms of engagement / Christine Conley -- Selected works / Nichola Feldman-Kiss -- You cannot know: war, art and the unknowable present / Kirsty Robertson -- Selected works / Adrian Stimson -- Works in the exhibition -- Biographies.

ISBN

9781553394037
1553394038

LCCN

2014481006

OCLC

ocn871768943
871768943
SCSB-1798873

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library