Paradoxes in Curating the Indigenous
Artistic Expression in the Arctic and North Atlantic and Pia Arke's Essay On Ethno-Aesthetics
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Abstract
In this article, I want to find a terminology for curating the indigenous and coastal peoples’ art in the Arctic and North Atlantic and give some examples. From an aesthetic viewpoint, these artistic expressions correspond to the question of identities in a perspective that can be defined as postcolonial. This means that by reworking our ideas concerning identities, we might discover a new source for the arts, which I think could replace inner or outer colonial gazes. I also want to show how dialogic spaces can solve the paradoxes of “blind spots” and how this relates to the question of ethno-aesthetics, in the sense given by Pia Arke in her essay Etnoæstetik (Ethno-Aesthetics) (1995, 2010). A substantial excerpt of this text will follow this article.
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Knut Ove Arntzen is a professor emeritus of theatre studies, at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a theatre critic since 1976. He has published a series of essays and books in Norway and internationally, and participated in numerous academic and artistic research symposia and conferences. He continues to teach as a visiting professor to universities and theatre academies. Among his recent publications is Staging and Re-Cycling: Retreiving, Reflecting and Re-framing the Archive, co-edited John Keefe.