Alone on the Snow, Alone on the Beach: “A Global Sense of Place” in Atanarjuat and Fountain
Recently, scholars and artists have queried the relationship between indigenous places—defined by their unique histories and meanings—and abstract spatial metaphors attending a current period of globalization. In this essay, Horton revisits two well-known works of digital video by Native North Ameri...
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| description | Recently, scholars and artists have queried the relationship between indigenous places—defined by their unique histories and meanings—and abstract spatial metaphors attending a current period of globalization. In this essay, Horton revisits two well-known works of digital video by Native North American artists to consider how they resolve an apparent tension between the indigenous lands they depict and the global networks in which they circulate: the internationally popular feature-length film Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner (2001), directed by Inuit artist Zacharias Kunuk, and the short video work Fountain (2005), created by Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore for the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Both works feature human bodies interacting with tactile substances like ice and water, spiritual forces at work in the environment, and landscapes that fade in and out of abstraction. Their creative approaches to sound, montage, and projection techniques set in motion dialectics of displacement and emplacement. Atanarjuat and Fountain contribute to an expansive notion of indigenous places, one that values the historical and cultural specificity of locales as the starting point for unraveling the complexities of their relationships to distant people and places. |
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| op_source | Horton, Jessica L.(2012). Alone on the Snow, Alone on the Beach: “A Global Sense of Place” in Atanarjuat and Fountain. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/54p2f9pq |
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| spelling | ftcdlib:qt54p2f9pq 2025-01-16T18:59:06+00:00 Alone on the Snow, Alone on the Beach: “A Global Sense of Place” in Atanarjuat and Fountain Horton, Jessica L. 2012-01-01 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/54p2f9pq english eng eScholarship, University of California qt54p2f9pq http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/54p2f9pq public Horton, Jessica L.(2012). Alone on the Snow, Alone on the Beach: “A Global Sense of Place” in Atanarjuat and Fountain. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 4(1). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/54p2f9pq Zacharias Kunuk Rebecca Belmore Native American Studies contemporary art film transnationalism globalization space place Arts and Humanities article 2012 ftcdlib 2016-04-02T18:58:55Z Recently, scholars and artists have queried the relationship between indigenous places—defined by their unique histories and meanings—and abstract spatial metaphors attending a current period of globalization. In this essay, Horton revisits two well-known works of digital video by Native North American artists to consider how they resolve an apparent tension between the indigenous lands they depict and the global networks in which they circulate: the internationally popular feature-length film Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner (2001), directed by Inuit artist Zacharias Kunuk, and the short video work Fountain (2005), created by Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore for the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Both works feature human bodies interacting with tactile substances like ice and water, spiritual forces at work in the environment, and landscapes that fade in and out of abstraction. Their creative approaches to sound, montage, and projection techniques set in motion dialectics of displacement and emplacement. Atanarjuat and Fountain contribute to an expansive notion of indigenous places, one that values the historical and cultural specificity of locales as the starting point for unraveling the complexities of their relationships to distant people and places. Article in Journal/Newspaper anishina* inuit University of California: eScholarship |
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| title | Alone on the Snow, Alone on the Beach: “A Global Sense of Place” in Atanarjuat and Fountain |
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