Sirmilik, geographical experience, and the question of landscape
Traditional landscape aesthetics, featured in geography and the fine arts, privilege a form of distance firmly attached to the gaze of the European colonial. This conceptualization of space has been strongly criticized and has recently been overshadowed in academia by an emphasis on a multisensory f...
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ftmasarykunivojs:oai:ojs.journals.muni.cz:article/21753 2024-06-23T07:50:12+00:00 Sirmilik, geographical experience, and the question of landscape Wilson, Samantha 2014-09-13 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/article/view/21753 eng eng Masaryk University https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/article/view/21753/17194 https://journals.phil.muni.cz/bse/article/view/21753 Brno Studies in English; Vol 39 No 2 (2013); 37-53 Brno Studies in English; Vol. 39 No. 2 (2013); 37-53 1805-0867 0524-6881 Zacharias Kunuk Canadian National Parks Project cultural geography landscape aesthetics phenomenology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Recenzovaný článek 2014 ftmasarykunivojs 2024-06-04T04:39:34Z Traditional landscape aesthetics, featured in geography and the fine arts, privilege a form of distance firmly attached to the gaze of the European colonial. This conceptualization of space has been strongly criticized and has recently been overshadowed in academia by an emphasis on a multisensory form of embodied experience. In contrast to this shift of emphasis, Martin Heidegger placed traditional structures of contemplation alongside an embodied process when accounting for our relationship to landscape and space. Zacharias Kunuk emphasizes this problematization from the indigenous point of view in his latest short film, Sirmilik (2011). In the film he challenges the notion that one form of experience can be separated from the other when considering the arctic landscape. Traditional landscape aesthetics, featured in geography and the fine arts, privilege a form of distance firmly attached to the gaze of the European colonial. This conceptualization of space has been strongly criticized and has recently been overshadowed in academia by an emphasis on a multisensory form of embodied experience. In contrast to this shift of emphasis, Martin Heidegger placed traditional structures of contemplation alongside an embodied process when accounting for our relationship to landscape and space. Zacharias Kunuk emphasizes this problematization from the indigenous point of view in his latest short film, Sirmilik (2011). In the film he challenges the notion that one form of experience can be separated from the other when considering the arctic landscape. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Masaryk University Journals Arctic |
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Traditional landscape aesthetics, featured in geography and the fine arts, privilege a form of distance firmly attached to the gaze of the European colonial. This conceptualization of space has been strongly criticized and has recently been overshadowed in academia by an emphasis on a multisensory form of embodied experience. In contrast to this shift of emphasis, Martin Heidegger placed traditional structures of contemplation alongside an embodied process when accounting for our relationship to landscape and space. Zacharias Kunuk emphasizes this problematization from the indigenous point of view in his latest short film, Sirmilik (2011). In the film he challenges the notion that one form of experience can be separated from the other when considering the arctic landscape. Traditional landscape aesthetics, featured in geography and the fine arts, privilege a form of distance firmly attached to the gaze of the European colonial. This conceptualization of space has been strongly criticized and has recently been overshadowed in academia by an emphasis on a multisensory form of embodied experience. In contrast to this shift of emphasis, Martin Heidegger placed traditional structures of contemplation alongside an embodied process when accounting for our relationship to landscape and space. Zacharias Kunuk emphasizes this problematization from the indigenous point of view in his latest short film, Sirmilik (2011). In the film he challenges the notion that one form of experience can be separated from the other when considering the arctic landscape. |
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