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Book Giveaway: 'Incendiary Traces'

May 4, 2017
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Incendiary traces book | Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy Content/Object.
"Incendiary Traces" book | Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy Content/Object.

"Incendiary Traces" is an ongoing experimental art, research and media initiative by Los Angeles-based artists Hillary Mushkin. The project brings together artists, scholars and students into active militarized sites in California, investigating the question of what conflict looks like in California's own backyard. "The idea was, we're in a war zone," the artists says in a previous Artbound article. "It's not the kind of war zone that you think of, but these people, they're doing something."

Over the years, the project has generated artworks, research and publication of related materials. As part of Mushkin's first museum exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, which runs through May 14, KCET is giving away nine copies of "Hillary Mushkin: Incendiary Traces (Project)," which contextualizes the project at six local militarized sites.

The book includes an introductory text by Rebecca McGrew, an essay by Susanna Newbury discussing the effect of military technology on visualizing conflict, an essay by Sarah Seekatz on the history of Southern California’s date industry and the orientalist fantasies associated with the Coachella Valley desert, and narrative captions by Hillary Mushkin.

Enter the contest below for a chance to win. Winners will be selected on Friday, May 12. Books should be picked up at KCET. 

Click here for official rules.

This contest is now closed. Thank you for participating.

Incendiary traces book page | Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy Content/Object.
"Incendiary Traces" book page | Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy Content/Object.
Incendiary traces book page 2 | Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy Content/Object.
"Incendiary Traces" book | Ian Byers-Gamber. Courtesy Content/Object. 

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