War Artist Video Projects
Somalia Yellow
A series of Somalia Yellow videos relating to the One Yellow Rabnit Performance Theatre production which appeared in Calgary, Prague and Glasgow.Excerpts from the stage production of Somalia Yellow. Original video shot in Somalia in 1993 by Allan Harding MacKay.
Excerpts from the stage version of Somalia Yellow produced by One Yellow Rabbit. Video shot in Somalia in 1993 by Allan Harding MacKay.
Excerpts from the stage version of Somalia Yellow produced by One Yellow Rabbit. Video shot in Somalia in 1993 by Allan Harding MacKay.
Excerpts from the stage version of Somalia Yellow produced by One Yellow Rabbit. Video shot in Somalia in 1993 by Allan Harding MacKay.
Based on video footage shot in Afghanistan while travelling as an artist with Canadian troops in 2002. This final work was created in February 2019
Produced in 2006 from original July 2002 video shot in the environs of Kandahar air field, Afghanistan, as a participant in the Canadian Forces Artist Program. Allan Harding MacKay
Dowloadable PDFs
- Somalia Yellow: A Nation’s Torture
- Somalia Yellow: A Stage We Had to Go Through
- Art Against War, June 1999
- Art from War in Somalia, Calgary Herald, April 2002
- Artists Depict the Face of War, The Globe and Mail, November 2003
- Closure for a Canadian Experience, FFWD, Calgary, 2002
- Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Fathers of Confederation Trust, PEI, 2002-2003
- Critic’s Pick, Calgary Herald, Calgary, April 2002
- Defence Department Unveils New Works by ‘War Artists’, CBC.ca, 2003
- Somalia Project cont’d, Descant 108, Toronto, 2000
- Flak Jacket and All, The Globe and Mail, 1993
- Haunted by War, The Calgary Sun, 2002
- One Yellow Rabbit
- Seeing Through Eyes of War, Gauntlet, Calgary, 2002
- Conflicts of Interest: Recent and Historical Sites of War, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 2001-2002
- The Somalia Project, Velvet Antler Productions, Banff, 1997
- Somalia Reinvisioned at OYR, Gauntlet, Calgary, 2002
- Somalia Yellow, www.ctyridny.cz, Prague, 2002
- Somalia Yellow, One Yellow Rabbit Press Release, Calgary, 2002
- Veteran’s Week, 2002
- Canadian Forces Artists Program, CBC.ca, November, 2003
- War Zones, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
- Double Bind, Catalogue
- Double Bind, KW Record
- Double Bind, Invitation
- War Zones, Artichoke Interview, 1999
- Art Against War, 1999
- From Charlottetown to Mogadishu, Arts Atlantic, 1994
- Fact Meets Poetic Fiction, Calgary Herald, 2002
- The Somalia Project, Descant, 2000
- Occasions & Frameworks for Finding, Extension, 1994
- The Art of War, FFWD, 2002
- Portraits of the Peacemakers, The Globe and Mail, 1993
- War Artists Suffer, The Globe and Mail, 1995
- Somalia Revisted, The Globe and Mail, 2002
- The Art of War, The Guardian, 2002
- Canadian Forces Artists Program Unveils Art from Inaugural Year, Newswire, 2003
- Bringing the War Home, North Shore News, 1999
- Artist Painting Troop’s Picture for Canadians, Pembroke Observer, 1993
- Somalia Yellow, 2002
- Un-mellow Yellow, Straight, 2002
- War Artist Captures Strong Images in his Sights, Summit Up, 1998
- The Art of War, This Magazine, 2004
- Images of War, Veterans Affairs
- Somalia Yellow, Video Pool, 1994
- The Art of War, The Weal, 2002
- Somalia Yellow, Confederations Centre Art Gallery, 2002
- Border Crossings: Walking to Mogadishu
- Toronto Star Artist Sees Dark Side
- Moose Jaw Art Museum-Transitive Space: Afghanistan
- Wilfred Laurier University: Double Bind
- War Art in Canada A Critical History by Laura Brandon
