Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork
his article examines Pia Arke’s artistic practice that engages with the phenomenon of ‘Arctic hysteria’, which apparently gripped large parts of the female indigenous population in the Arctic during the early contact era. By focusing on the ‘lost’ photomontage Arctic Hysteria IV (1997), I aim to sho...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/33642 2024-06-23T07:48:27+00:00 Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork Spreter, Stephanie von 2022-09-15 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33642 https://doi.org/10.18261/kk.105.2.3 eng eng Universitetsforlaget Kunst og kultur Spreter S. Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork. Kunst og kultur. 2022;105(2-3):87-102 FRIDAID 2271352 https://doi.org/10.18261/kk.105.2.3 0023-5415 1504-3029 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33642 Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.18261/kk.105.2.3 2024-06-04T23:54:27Z his article examines Pia Arke’s artistic practice that engages with the phenomenon of ‘Arctic hysteria’, which apparently gripped large parts of the female indigenous population in the Arctic during the early contact era. By focusing on the ‘lost’ photomontage Arctic Hysteria IV (1997), I aim to show how Arke’s method of re-appropriating photographic material from colonial archives can be seen as an act of visual repatriation, of “working through” and reclaiming the repressed histories of indigenous Kalaallit women. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic kalaallit University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Kunst og Kultur 105 2-3 87 102 |
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his article examines Pia Arke’s artistic practice that engages with the phenomenon of ‘Arctic hysteria’, which apparently gripped large parts of the female indigenous population in the Arctic during the early contact era. By focusing on the ‘lost’ photomontage Arctic Hysteria IV (1997), I aim to show how Arke’s method of re-appropriating photographic material from colonial archives can be seen as an act of visual repatriation, of “working through” and reclaiming the repressed histories of indigenous Kalaallit women. |
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