Trans/mission: Corn Vectors

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:20:45 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

Transmission : Corn Vectors

Artwork creator(s):

Benner, Ron

Artwork creator(s):

Benner, Ron

Text author(s):

Benner, Ron

Text author(s):

Benner, Ron

Installation year:

1997

Remarks on location:

Garden installation, grounds of the McIntosh Gallery

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Ron Benner

Description:

A photographic installation in a garden

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

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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)

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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

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.

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Benner, Ronald William

Owner(s):

Collection of the artist

Source:

Ron Benner, artiste ronbenner_2000@yahoo.com

Document(s):

Ron Benner: Trans/mission

An Answer to a Question." So, To Speak

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Foodculture

Trans/mission: Corn Vectors

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