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At Home
Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice
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.
Contributors
Lezli Rubin-Kunda
Lezli Rubin-Kunda is a multi- disciplinary artist who was born and grew up in Toronto, and now lives in Israel. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Fine Arts from School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. She currently teaches in the Department of Architecture and City Planning at Technion University in Haifa. She works in site-specific performance, installation, video, and drawing to explore her relationship with her environment and has performed, exhibited, and lectured in Canada, the United States, Israel, and Europe. Her exhibition record includes Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Ein Harod, Kibbutz Ein Harod, Arad Museum; Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel; Deleon White Gallery, Toronto; The Western Front, Vancouver; and Gallery One One One, School of Art, University of Manitoba. She has also participated in many performance art festivals. She has three children and lives outside of Tel Aviv, Israel. This is her first book.
