Article: “Visual Identity & Subsurface Narratives in the Phantasmagoric Klondike”
The article “Visual Identity & Subsurface Narratives in the Phantasmagoric Klondike” has been published in RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, the journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC).
Written by Drew Lyness, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Yukon University, this interdisciplinary paper considers how urgent discourses around land use, extraction, and the heavily commodified identity of the Yukon territory take shape within the spaces of visual culture, architecture, and public art.
Read the full paper here.
The full special issue, on “Contested Landscapes: Wilderness Parks and Shifting Narratives,” is available here: https://www.racar-racar.com/
Photo: “Theme bridge” at the entry to the Yukon Territory at Six Flags Great Americatheme park in Gurnee, Illinois, ca. 2017. Photograph by Dave Gottwald, CC-BY-NC 4.0.