We call proposals for the following session:
4.3 Arctic cultures and arts
4.3.1 New Genre Arctic Art and Art Education
Convener:
Timo Jokela
Co-conveners:
Ekaterina Sharova Anastasia Deyko
Timo Jokela1 , Ekaterina Sharova2 , Anastasia Deyko3
1University of Lapland, 2APECS Arts, 3APECS Art group
Session description
This session (exhibition) welcomes submissions relate to New Genre Arctic art. The concept refers to Indigenous and other artistic expressions, interventions, and new forms of crafts and cultural heritage sharing an interest in the Arctic’s material culture and handmaking skills.
We are interested in submissions exploring the potential of arts for future making in the Arctic region. While art has used to depict Arctic from the outsider’s perspective, the people of the Arctic have gained the agency to make internationally recognised art themselves rather than being observed and pictured by visitors to the Arctic. We collect and pool artwork and documents of artistic practices from different parts of the circumpolar world and illuminate artists´ and art educators´ engagements and agency. Such contemporary art and art education tackle local ecoculture, natural resource extraction, politics, identities, and cultural continuation, and fosters cultural resilience and sustainability.
The attention of the exhibition follows the global paradigm shift focusing on collaborations with more-than human nature, knowing with nature and encounters with material world. Also, the pedagogical turn of contemporary art is embedded in the new genre Arctic art.
The session calls for artwork proposals to be shared in an online exhibition and /or in situ.
The proposed exhibition is aimed at involving various visual media ranging from traditional art to mixedmedia installations and performances to pedagogical documentations. It is planned to unfold throughout this Congress in different venues in Bodö and/or online.
Arctic Congress Bodø 2024
The program and a list of sessions for which abstracts can be proposed can be found at the following address: https://www.arcticcongress.com/