David Askevold
David Askevold (30 March 1940 – 23 January 2008) was an experimental Canadian artist who lived in Nova Scotia.
Askevold studied art and
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His artwork, often manifested on videotape, is usually the result of a non-strategy based on favorable happenstance, collaboration, and selected circumstance. This method evokes those used by many younger artists today, such as Dave Muller and Rirkrit Tiravanija, who invite the unscripted, unchoreographed participation of others as a necessary part of their artistic practice.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he taught at
In 1985, while teaching as a visiting artist in media arts in Minneapolis, Askevold collaborated with students to produce his only music video, a tape of two songs by the rock and roll band Hüsker Dü.
His works are held in the National Gallery of Canada,[1] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles[2] and the Hammer Museum[3] Los Angeles.
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