Community of the North: Postnationality in Contemporary Arctic Video Art

• Main Author: Dial-Kay, Nicole Ashley
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Catarina Ryöppy; Ólöf Nordal; postnationality; Tanya Tagaq; video art; Contemporary Art; Film and Media Studies; History of Art; Architecture; and Archaeology; Canada; Greenland; Norway; Nordal; Iceland; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/arth_gradetds/14; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=arth_gradetds

This thesis aims to analyze the use of new media by contemporary Arctic artists as a means of redefining their region against the popularly accepted separation of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and Alaska as individual nation-­‐states, and toward the community of the Arctic reg...