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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/IS00000177/00001
Notes
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- Created in 2006
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- Made as part of the Peace Art Project Cambodia, 2006 in Phnom Penh from Small Arms and Light Weapons captured and destroyed by the EU ASAC (European Union Assistance on Curbing Small Arms and light weapons in Cambodia), the work is on long term loan from [a] private collection. -- Peace Art Project Cambodia - Turning weapons into art. The cessation of armed conflict in 1998 left Cambodia facing the huge task of tackling the widespread, destabilising proliferation of small arms, mines and UXO. Between 1999 and 2004, the Royal Government of Cambbdia and the European Union Assistance on Curbing Small Arms in Cambodia (EU-ASAC) publicly destroyed 125,000 weapons across 17 Cambodian provinces. PAPC has secured thousands of these weapons, along with destroyed ammunition, tripods, large calibre weapons and mine/ordnance casings from MAG and the Halo Trust for the purposes of the project. -- Established in July 2003 by Small Arms Specialist Neil Wilford and Artist Sasha Constable, PAPC brings together twenty-three students recruited from the Royal University of Fine Art Phnom Penh utilizing decommissioned weapons to create works of art. The completed work is exhibited and sold to promote contemporary Cambodian art, young Cambodian artisans and a weapon free society in Cambodia and globally. -- The students get a first glimpse of some of the equipment they will soon be using. The PAPC custom workshop space is rented from the Development Technology Workshop Incubator Park, a British based charity focusing on the transfer of sustainable engineering skills in underdeveloped countries. Three international artists have visited PAPC, providing new sculptural and metal working techniques as well as marketing promotional skills which are vital to the students' creative development - Mark Solomon an American artist/blacksmith and the executive director of a regional American social justice NGO, Joe Rush an English metal sculptor, and Toby Poolman an English furniture design specialist have all imparted their specialist skills and knowledge to the students.
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- VIAF (name authority) : Kesse, Erich J., 1959- : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/50777471
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- VIAF (name authority) : University of London. School of African and Oriental Studies : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/126246578
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- Photographed by Erich Kesse
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
- ©SOAS University of London and Erich Kesse, 2021. Copyright shared through a grant of non-exclusive permission with SOAS University of London. This image may be used under licence CC BY-NC-SA.
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