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Archive listings for Somalia Yellow (2002)

Work type: Play.

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Now OYR puts a fatigue-clad MacKay himself on the stand, along with his stunning video, to face a barrage of questions in this gripping theatrical meditation on the parallel roles of artist and soldier in a less-than-perfect world.Company One Yellow Rabbit.
30 Oct 02 to 2 Nov 02The Tron, Glasgow :: V622
listing details L01474028224

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Somalia Yellow archiveBelet Huen, Somalia: a gun-running, drug smuggling stop between Ethiopia and Mogadishu, and site of a rag-tag camp of Canadian peace-keepers. Living among them was noted Canadian artist Allan Harding MacKay, who the Armed Forces had commissioned to document the humanitarian mission through painting and, most compellingly, video. But fate sent MacKay there just as the events of the Canadian Military's most infamous act of torture and murder of a Somali teenager, began to unfold.

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