Item MS-3-46, 1987-011 - Still point

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Charlotte Wilson Hammond, P. Fairfield

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MS-3-46, 1987-011

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  • 1987 (Creation)

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1 videocassette (10 min.) : Betacam SP. - 1 videocassette : U-matic, stereo

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(1941-)

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Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is an artist based on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Wilson-Hammond has been heavily involved in the local Nova Scotian artist community. She has been advocating for the Arts on provincial and national levels for decades, and was a founding member of the Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the Eyelevel Gallery. In 2002 Wilson-Hammond had a retrospective exhibition at the Dalhousie Art Gallery entitled "Landscape with Thighs".

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Paula Fairfield grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and became a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in the early 1980s. While at NSCAD, Fairfield became interested in sound and video while undertaking classes in other mediums. Fairfield later moved to Toronto and Montreal to undertake other professional endeavors, before moving to Los Angeles where she currently resides today. Fairfield operates her sound company, Eargasm Inc, in Los Angeles where she works on numerous television and film productions. Fairfield has been nominations for six Emmy awards in sound editing and design for her work in Lost and Game of Thrones. Fairfield became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1983 because of her video, “Relative activities: doing nothing with somebody” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection

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The tape was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 2013 by the Centre for Art Tapes.

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Item consists of a video recording by Charlotte Wilson- Hammond.

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  • English

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Video can be viewed at the Dalhousie University Archives. Advance notice is required.

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Copyright is held by the artists.

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