Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism
The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through a concept presented to festivalgoers via site-specific scenography, visual narra...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:fc273bfa0f334b629d03c51ae179add1 2023-05-15T18:14:49+02:00 Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism Erika De Vivo 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 https://doaj.org/article/fc273bfa0f334b629d03c51ae179add1 EN eng Lodz University Press https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/15336 https://doaj.org/toc/2083-2931 https://doaj.org/toc/2084-574X 2083-2931 2084-574X doi:10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 https://doaj.org/article/fc273bfa0f334b629d03c51ae179add1 Text Matters, Iss 12, Pp 227-246 (2022) sámi festivals artistic activism climate change indigenous futurism Literature (General) PN1-6790 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 2022-12-30T20:15:41Z The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through a concept presented to festivalgoers via site-specific scenography, visual narratives, and performances. This essay, addressing the festival as a site of artistic activism, reveals the conceptual bases and cultural significance of the festival-plot in relation to Indigenous Sámi cosmologies, the past and the possible future(s) in our time marked by escalating climate change. I argue that Márkomeannu-2018, providing a narrative about the future in which, amidst the Western societies’ dystopic colonial implosion, Indigenous people thrive, can be regarded as an expression of Indigenous Futurism. Counterpointing 19th-century theories predicting the imminent vanishing of Indigenous peoples while positioning the Sámi as modern Indigenous peoples with both a past and a future, this narrative constitutes an act of empowerment. Sámi history and intangible cultural heritage constituted repositories of meaning whereas a folktale constituted a framework for the festival-plot while providing an allegorical tool to read the present. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 12 227 246 |
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The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through a concept presented to festivalgoers via site-specific scenography, visual narratives, and performances. This essay, addressing the festival as a site of artistic activism, reveals the conceptual bases and cultural significance of the festival-plot in relation to Indigenous Sámi cosmologies, the past and the possible future(s) in our time marked by escalating climate change. I argue that Márkomeannu-2018, providing a narrative about the future in which, amidst the Western societies’ dystopic colonial implosion, Indigenous people thrive, can be regarded as an expression of Indigenous Futurism. Counterpointing 19th-century theories predicting the imminent vanishing of Indigenous peoples while positioning the Sámi as modern Indigenous peoples with both a past and a future, this narrative constitutes an act of empowerment. Sámi history and intangible cultural heritage constituted repositories of meaning whereas a folktale constituted a framework for the festival-plot while providing an allegorical tool to read the present. |
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