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Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
By: Josh Wingrove
When the DEW Line was built, Charles Stankievech hadn’t been born. He was only a teenager when the Cold War ended, and until three years ago didn’t even live in the North.
But this month, the 32-year-old will represent Yukon artists on the world stage when his installation project – an homage to the outmoded yet iconic Distant Early Warning (DEW) system and supported with funding from the territory’s government – makes its international debut.
The DEW Project, an art installation that explores environment and sovereignty in the North, will be displayed at an international art festival in Dortmund, Germany, next week. It’s a hallmark showing for the territory of a scant 34,000 people. Two years ago, the Yukon government created a Touring Artist Fund to support the efforts of its many artists, including Mr. Stankievech, to show their work to a broader audience internationally.
“We wanted to do something where artists get the opportunity to show their stuff outside of the Yukon,” said Laurel Parry, arts manager with the Yukon Department of Tourism and Culture, which contributed just over $5,775 to Mr. Stankievech’s German display. “We just feel that people spend so much time here creating and producing a work of art, that we’d hate to see it just be shown to such a small local audience.”
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