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Summary
Summary
In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and their lives. Rubin-Kunda is a multidisciplinary artist who examines these issues in her own work. But in this book, she expands her horizons, travelling across Canada to talk to more than fifty practicing artists, including Amalie Atkins, Aganetha Dyck, Francois Morelli, Simon Frank, and Sharon Alward, about their work, their creative process, and the place of "home": in their work.
What emerges from these thoughtful conversations are fascinating and unexpected orientations to place, ranging from deep connections to a specific childhood home, to more conscious adoptions of place, to somewhat fluid approaches in which the very concept of "home" seems to dissolve.
Moving from physical landscapes to the geography of memories and recorded histories, from territories of emotion to social environments that condition and contribute to the idea of home, Rubin-Kunda touches on indigenous approaches to ancestral homelands, the land as physical place and emotional territory, the historic role of women in creating and taking care of "home," ideas of home disconnected from place, and liberating concepts of "homelessness." Woven through these encounters with other artists are Rubin-Kunda's reflections on her own artistic path.
Candid, empathetic, and insightful, At Home explores the creative process and the ways that artists find and create meaning within a fragmented contemporary landscape.
Author Notes
Lezli Rubin-Kunda is a Canadian-Israeli multidisciplinary artist who uses her body and the immediate materials of her environment to explore her relationship with place. She has exhibited, performed, and lectured in Canada, the United States, Israel, and Europe. She currently lives outside of Tel Aviv and teaches in the Architecture Faculty at the Technion University, Haifa, Israel. This is her first book.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: Setting Out | p. 1 |
1 Locating and Re-locating | p. 8 |
2 No Place Like Home | p. 21 |
Childhood Haunts | p. 21 |
Re-Wilding the Land | p. 31 |
Below the Surface | p. 37 |
3 Mythical Landscapes | p. 42 |
4 Ancestral Connections | p. 52 |
5 Intertwined Tales | p. 63 |
Place and Displacement | p. 63 |
Marking Sites | p. 72 |
Uncovering the Past | p. 75 |
6 Sacred Connections | p. 79 |
7 Women's Work | p. 88 |
Labours of Love | p. 90 |
Susan Shantz | p. 90 |
Mary Kavanagh | p. 94 |
Preservation | p. 95 |
8 Right Here, Right Now | p. 103 |
9 Mapping the Territory | p. 112 |
Homing Techniques | p. 112 |
Geographical Positioning | p. 120 |
Sandra Rechico and Gwen MacGregar | p. 120 |
Ellen Moffat | p. 125 |
Peter Dykhuis | p. 126 |
10 Distant Places | p. 130 |
Foreign Attachments | p. 130 |
A Place of Choice | p. 138 |
Away From Home | p. 144 |
11 Impermanent Homes | p. 150 |
Jacky Sawatzky | p. 150 |
Jeroen Witvliet | p. 159 |
12 Creating Connections | p. 162 |
Crossing Boundaries | p. 162 |
Anywhere is Fine | p. 170 |
Home and Homelessness | p. 177 |
Challenging Dogma | p. 180 |
13 Back to the Senses | p. 188 |
Sites and Sounds | p. 188 |
Exposure | p. 195 |
Blurring Boundaries | p. 198 |
Afterword: The End of the Journey | p. 203 |
About the Artists | p. 209 |
Photo Credits | p. 217 |