Ethno-Aesthetics (Excerpt)
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So, Western appropriation and marginalization of the alien is constantly at work. You may want to stress that postcolonialism is an intellectual invention combining postmodernism and anti-colonialism in a way that conceals the continuation of colonialism by other forms of suppression and exploitation of the Third World. However, this is not an insight that in itself will transcend the regime of Western intellectualism from which it has sprung.
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Pia Arke (1958–2007) was a Greenlandic and Danish artist, writer, and photographer. Arke enrolled at the Department of Theory and Communications at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 1995, she graduated with an MFA with the published thesis “Ethno-Aesthetics,” critiquing Western romantic and primitivist stereotyping of “Eskimo” art, pioneering critical issues of cultural identity and authenticity. Today her work continues to push the boundaries of artistic expression, challenging conventional notions of identity, representation, and political perceptions of knowledge and power, with a particular emphasis on elevating the voices and experiences of the female subject within a postcolonial context. Arke's work emanates a profound sense of purpose, and her work is only recently being widely recognized.