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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ftunivlodzir:oai:dspace.uni.lodz.pl:11089/44368 2023-07-30T04:06:39+02:00 Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism De Vivo, Erika University of Torino erika.devivo@unito.it 2022-11-24 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44368 https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 en eng Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;12 2083-2931 http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44368 2084-574X doi:10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Sámi festivals artistic activism climate change Indigenous Futurism Article 2022 ftunivlodzir https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 2023-07-07T06:48:53Z 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 University of Lodz Repository (RUŁ) 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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