Feminist strategies for changing the story: re-imagining Arctic exploration narratives through (the staging of) photographs, travel writing and found objects

• Published in: Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
• Main Author: von Spreter, Stephanie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::History of art: 120; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kunsthistorie: 120; Arctic; Birkeland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/23523; https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2021.1997462

This article shows how contemporary artistic practice seeks to re-evaluate, re-interpret and re-imagine (historical) Arctic exploration narratives that have generally been considered gendered and dominated by men. It particularly examines the work of contemporary Norwegian artist Tonje Bøe Birkeland...