Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork

This article examines Pia Arke’s artistic practice that engages with the phenomenon of ‘Arctic hysteria’, which apparently gripped large parts of the female indigenous population in the Arctic during the early contact era. By focusing on the ‘lost’ photomontage Arctic Hysteria IV (1997), I aim to sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Kunst og Kultur
Main Author: Stephanie von Spreter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Published: Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget 2022
Subjects:
Pia Arke
Arctic hysteria
visual repatriation
photography
social biography
colonial archive
History of the arts
NX440-632
Arctic
kalaallit
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18261/kk.105.2.3
https://doaj.org/article/65875e6468ef4e0fb98a562be0391969
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Summary:This article examines Pia Arke’s artistic practice that engages with the phenomenon of ‘Arctic hysteria’, which apparently gripped large parts of the female indigenous population in the Arctic during the early contact era. By focusing on the ‘lost’ photomontage Arctic Hysteria IV (1997), I aim to show how Arke’s method of re-appropriating photographic material from colonial archives can be seen as an act of visual repatriation, of “working through” and reclaiming the repressed histories of indigenous Kalaallit women.

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