Public Artwork
Trans/mission: Corn Vectors
Location:
University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, Canada
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Alternate title:
Transmission : Corn Vectors
Artwork creator(s):
Benner, Ron
Text author(s):
Benner, Ron
Installation year:
1997
Remarks on location:
Garden installation, grounds of the McIntosh Gallery
Description:
A photographic installation in a garden
Text of the artwork:
[Panel 1/4, partial text]
QUEELA (Zapotee) SARA (Queehtta) SE :LU (Cherokee) MÁ-HIZ (Arawak) Corn Irrigation. Thu Bon Delta. Hoi An (Faifo), Quang Nam, Vietnam. February 1997. CULTIVATED VARIETIES: Zea Mays L. VECTORS: POST-CABRAL (INDIA, 1528 A.D.). PORTUGUESE. LE LOI DYNASTY (VIETNAM). REMAINS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CULTURAL DEPOSITS : 456 YEARS BEFORE PRESENT (1541 A.D.) COMMON NAME: Maize, Corn Corn Roaster. White Corn. Hoi An (Faifo), Quang Nam, Vietnam. February 1997. BĀP (Vietnamese) KASORI (Swahili) THOURAH (Arabic) KORN (Icelandic)
[Panel 2/4, partial text]
Oh nuh steh (Mohawk) CHOCLO
(Peru) APE-HNAPEMIN (Menominee)
Zea Mays L / Cornfield.
Six Nations Of The Grand River.
Ontario, Canada.
September 1995.
WILD VARIETIES : None
VECTORS :
NATIVE TO THE AMERICAS.
. REMAINS IN ASSOCIATION
WITH CULTURAL DEPOSITS :
7000 YEARS BEFORE PRESENT
(5000 B.C.)
MOLITARY VALUE : “Food is a Weapon” – Earl Butz,
US Secretary of State for Agriculture, 1974
Agricultural Research Terracing.
Circa 1200 A.D.
Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Peru.
March, 1980.
'ONEO' (Seneca) ONEHA (Onondaga)
O:NASTE (Oneida) ONEHE (Cayuga)
Artwork theme:
Genetically modified organisms, nature, conquest of America, plants of the Americas
History:
- Art Exhibition: Foodculture" Artlab project, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 1998. (Group Exhibition. Artlab A / Visual Arts Department; Commissioner Barbara Fischer).
- Art exhibition: Garden installation at the University of Western Ontario, London, 1996/1997 to 1997/2001. (Artlab / Visual Arts Department; Commissioner Barbara Fischer).
- Art exhibition: Trans/mission: Corn Vector. A photographic installation in a garden, in the back of AXENÉO7. From June 14 to September 30, 2008.
Artist's biography:
Benner, Ronald William
Owner(s):
Collection of the artist Document(s):
Syndicate
