Dáiddakártta. Cartography in Contemporary Art Practices
This article explores contemporary art practices in Sápmi which utilise maps as a tool and medium. The importance of the artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen’s abundant maps from the mid-1970s is acknowledged, and furthermore the article looks into examples from the next generation Sámi artists who create dá...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/34289 2024-09-15T18:33:51+00:00 Dáiddakártta. Cartography in Contemporary Art Practices Haugdal, Elin Kristine 2024-07-26 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/34289 https://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/006 eng eng Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari JoLMA. The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2024/1/daiddakarta/ Haugdal EK. Dáiddakártta. Cartography in Contemporary Art Practices. JoLMA. The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts. 2024;5(1):117-144 FRIDAID 2286851 doi:10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/006 2723-9640 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/34289 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel publishedVersion 2024 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01/006 2024-08-20T23:38:52Z This article explores contemporary art practices in Sápmi which utilise maps as a tool and medium. The importance of the artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen’s abundant maps from the mid-1970s is acknowledged, and furthermore the article looks into examples from the next generation Sámi artists who create dáiddakárta, which literally translates to art maps. Although not a traditional Sámi way of mapping and orientating in the landscape, dáiddakárta is significant in representing Indigenous people, in knowledge production, decolonial resistance, and reconciliation. Various dáiddakárta broaden the concept of what a ‘map’ has been, and could be, and contribute to the cartographic representations of other forms of being. Emphasising the concept of worlding helps understand mapping as a constant formation, relation and negotiation, and as a forceful and sometimes activist process, not only rendering or representing a world ‘already there’. Instead, the art maps serve as interpretative, aesthetic and even speculative actors in contemporary society. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive JoLMA 1 |
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This article explores contemporary art practices in Sápmi which utilise maps as a tool and medium. The importance of the artist Hans Ragnar Mathisen’s abundant maps from the mid-1970s is acknowledged, and furthermore the article looks into examples from the next generation Sámi artists who create dáiddakárta, which literally translates to art maps. Although not a traditional Sámi way of mapping and orientating in the landscape, dáiddakárta is significant in representing Indigenous people, in knowledge production, decolonial resistance, and reconciliation. Various dáiddakárta broaden the concept of what a ‘map’ has been, and could be, and contribute to the cartographic representations of other forms of being. Emphasising the concept of worlding helps understand mapping as a constant formation, relation and negotiation, and as a forceful and sometimes activist process, not only rendering or representing a world ‘already there’. Instead, the art maps serve as interpretative, aesthetic and even speculative actors in contemporary society. |
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