THE FROZEN NORTH: INUIT ART AND CULTURE
Dr Sabine Wieber, senior lecturer in History of Art and Design, School of Culture and Creative Arts,University of Glasgow
Monday 27–Friday 31 January 9.15 am COURSE FEES R550; Staff and students R275
In recent years, drawings, prints and sculpture by indigenous artists from the Circumpolar North have captured international attention at important contemporary art events. At the 2022 Venice Biennale, for example, the Scandinavian Pavilion was taken over by three Sámi artists and the Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona received a special mention for her drawings of modern Arctic life.
This course offers a cultural perspective on the resurgence of contemporary art from the Far North. It explores its rich history and disentangles some of the complicated encounters between circumpolar communities and settlers that gave rise to beautiful visual and material expression of indigenous identity. The Inuit of the northern regions of Canada will be at the centre of this course, but examples from other Arctic communities will also be discussed.
Lecture titles
- Who are the Inuit?
- Nineteenth-century fascination with the Arctic
- Inuit sculpture
- Inuit print culture
- Inuit art today
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