Critical Writing Index

Lassoing talent for High Performance Rodeo

by Chris Dafoe

The Globe and Mail, Jan. 10, 1998

This article serves as a preview for the 1998 High Performance Rodeo festival. Its focal point is Somalia Yellow, a video by Allan Harding Mackay. Mackay's work is the product of footage Mackay shot while in Somalia, as part of the Canadian Forces' now-defunct civilian-artist program.

ITEM 1998.059 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Somalia YellowAllan Harding MacKay

The American ChestnutKaren Finley