The Elsewhere War: Art, Embodiment, and the Spaces of Military Engagement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines embodiment as a strategy of meaning-making that can generate alternative narratives about Canada’s participation in the War on Terror. It takes as its point of entry Canadian artist Barb Hunt’s series Camouflage, which adapts worn camouflage military fatigues into artworks. The three pieces from this series discussed here—Incarnate, Fodder, and The Old Lie—make material the bodily forms of war to Canadian museum-goers in order to challenge the perceived disconnection of Canadian civilians from wars fought in the spaces of the Canadian elsewhere (i.e., outside of and remote from the “home” space of Canada). This paper examines Hunt’s practice as enabling a context for an embodied encounter that activates a critical and empathic engagement. Specifically, it explores the intersections of art, embodiment, and critical empathy as a provocation that can disrupt familiar ways of being-in-the-world, particularly in relation to the sense of war as occurring in a dislocated and distanced elsewhere. In this way, the intersection of Hunt’s art and embodied knowledges provides new insights into thinking through Canadians’ relationship to and implication in ongoing military activities occurring elsewhere.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.061 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".