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In Danish-Greenlandic artist Pia Arke’s video work Arctic Hysteria, 1996, the artist presses her undressed body against a large photographic print of her still-colonized home landscape. The image is torn in pieces by the friction between Arke’s skin and the print, and later, also by Arke’s resolute...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/witch-hunt(2d6fc9ca-9f1c-4d46-aa53-5b50d0f8335d).html https://www.artforum.com/picks/witch-hunt-84876 |
| Summary: | In Danish-Greenlandic artist Pia Arke’s video work Arctic Hysteria, 1996, the artist presses her undressed body against a large photographic print of her still-colonized home landscape. The image is torn in pieces by the friction between Arke’s skin and the print, and later, also by Arke’s resolute hands. Borrowing its title from the settler’s lingua—Arctic Hysteria describes a mental illness, presumably endemic among Innuit women, distinguished by fits of rage and sporadic undressing—Arke’s piece strategically overidentifies with projected hysteria in the context of a contemporary Danish colonial heritage. |
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