Hunter with harpoon
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Published fifty years ago under the title "Harpoon of the hunter", Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal(...)
Hunter with harpoon
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Published fifty years ago under the title "Harpoon of the hunter", Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance. Whether revisiting this classic or discovering it for the first time, readers will find in this book a sophisticated coming-of-age tale illustrating a way of life not as it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of the Inuit themselves.
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Born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1961, Shuvinai is part of a famed dynasty of artists that includes her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona and her Sobey Art Award–winning cousin, the late Annie Pootoogook. Shuvinai is recognized as a member of a new generation of artists that engage with drawing in innovative ways. Her highly imaginative work combines aspects of traditional(...)
March 2019
Shuvinai Ashoona : life & work
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Born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1961, Shuvinai is part of a famed dynasty of artists that includes her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona and her Sobey Art Award–winning cousin, the late Annie Pootoogook. Shuvinai is recognized as a member of a new generation of artists that engage with drawing in innovative ways. Her highly imaginative work combines aspects of traditional Inuit culture and mythology with influences derived from the non-Arctic world. This publication explores the world of an artist whose rich graphic imagery conveys an intricate and textured personal vision. Using pencil, pen and ink, and markers to render dense, highly imaginative drawings, Shuvinai creates art that reflects the intersection of values between the traditional and the contemporary in the North.
Border crossings issue 145
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Border Crossings takes an in-depth look at California-based American artist Nancy Rubins. For over forty years, Rubins’ work has contained unpredictable elements as she has transformed industrial materials such as mattresses, television sets, RV campers and boat parts into large-scale installations. This issue also includes a look into the world of one of Canada’s most(...)
Border crossings issue 145
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Border Crossings takes an in-depth look at California-based American artist Nancy Rubins. For over forty years, Rubins’ work has contained unpredictable elements as she has transformed industrial materials such as mattresses, television sets, RV campers and boat parts into large-scale installations. This issue also includes a look into the world of one of Canada’s most important conceptual artists, Toronto-based Kelly Mark; a portfolio of charcoal drawings by Berlin-based Canadian artist Ambera Wellmann, winner of the 2017 RBC painting competition; Stephen Horne looks at artifact and artifice in Sophie Calle’s and Serena Carone’s quiet insertions into the quirky, lavish and eccentric Paris museum, La Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature; Robin Laurence presents a profile of Inuit artist Shuvinai Ashoona and writes about the work recently presented at the Marion Scott Gallery; Ray Cronin looks at "Places, paths and pauses", a retrospective of Newfoundland photographer Marlene Creates.
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Oarjemáilmmi dáiddárat ja cállit leat govvádallan ja ovdanbuktán Davviriikkaid jahkecudiid cada, mii lea dagahan ahte, logijagiid suksessiva akkumulašuvnnain diskurssaiguin, leat ráhkaduvvon “davi govvádallamat” - mat vulget “Davvin” Skandinávias, Ruonáeatnamis ja Ruoššas, “davvi allagassii” dahje Davvináhpái. Oarjemáilmmálaccat leat johtán davvináhpái beare jahkecuodi(...)
Mii lea "davi govvádallan"? Ehtalaš prinsihpat
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Oarjemáilmmi dáiddárat ja cállit leat govvádallan ja ovdanbuktán Davviriikkaid jahkecudiid cada, mii lea dagahan ahte, logijagiid suksessiva akkumulašuvnnain diskurssaiguin, leat ráhkaduvvon “davi govvádallamat” - mat vulget “Davvin” Skandinávias, Ruonáeatnamis ja Ruoššas, “davvi allagassii” dahje Davvináhpái. Oarjemáilmmálaccat leat johtán davvináhpái beare jahkecuodi dás ovdal, mii dagaha ahte “Davvi” lea buodus duppalgeahcastagas: Geahcastat mii boahtá olggobealde - hábmejuvvon erenoamážit oarjemáilmmálaš govvádallamiiguin - ja geahcastat mii boahtá siskkáldasat - Davi kultuvrrain (Inuit, Skandináva, Cree, jna.). Dat vuosttaš dávjá álkiduvvo ja nubbi hilgojuvvo. Jus mii háliidat áddet mii “Davvi” lea oppalaš perspektiivvas, fertet jearrat guokte jearaldaga: mo definerejit govvádallamat davi, ja makkár ehtalaš prinsihpat berrejit stivret mo mii dulkot davi kultuvrraid oažžun dihte ollislaš oainnu das (maiddá, erenoamážit daid maid lullin leat badjelgeahccan)? Dán artihkkalis geahccala cálli loktet dán guokte jearaldaga, vuos dan bokte ahte definere mat leat govvádallamat daviin, ja dasto evttohusain fátmmastit prográmma “rekomplekseret” kultuvrralaš Árktisa.
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Le Nunatsiavut, région inuite du Canada qui possède une administration autonome depuis 2005, a une production artistique à part dans le monde de l’art canadien et de l’art inuit circumpolaire. Population inuite la plus méridionale au monde, le peuple côtier du Nunatsiavut a toujours vécu à cheval sur la limite forestière, et les artistes et artisans inuits du Nunatsiavut(...)
July 2017
SakKijajuk: Art et artisanat du Nunatsiavut
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Le Nunatsiavut, région inuite du Canada qui possède une administration autonome depuis 2005, a une production artistique à part dans le monde de l’art canadien et de l’art inuit circumpolaire. Population inuite la plus méridionale au monde, le peuple côtier du Nunatsiavut a toujours vécu à cheval sur la limite forestière, et les artistes et artisans inuits du Nunatsiavut ont eu accès à une flore et une faune arctique et subarctique très diversifiées, à partir desquelles ils ont créé des œuvres d’une surprenante variété. Les artistes du territoire se sont traditionnellement servis de la pierre et du bois pour sculpter, de la fourrure, du cuir et de la peau de phoque pour l’art mobilier et des graminées marines pour la vannerie, ainsi que de la laine, du métal, du tissu, des perles et du papier. Plus récemment, ils ont travaillé avec des techniques que l’on retrouve en art contemporain, comme la peinture, le dessin, la gravure, la photographie, la vidéo et la céramique, sans pour autant délaisser les matériaux traditionnels, utilisés de manière novatrice et inusitée. ''SakKijâjuk. Art et artisanat du Nunatsiavut'' est la première publication d’importance sur l’art des Inuits du Labrador. Écrit pour accompagner une exposition itinérante majeure conçue par The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery Division de St. John’s, l’ouvrage comprend plus de 80 reproductions d’œuvres de 45 artistes, une présentation de ces derniers et un essai de fond sur l’art au Nunatsiavut signé par la commissaire Heather Igloliorte.
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In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, mostly untold history existed(...)
Blanket toss under midnight sun
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In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, mostly untold history existed alongside the official one: that of how Indigenous peoples and communities had held together during even the most difficult times. He embarked on a social media project to collect archival photos capturing everyday life in First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities from the 1920s through the 1970s. As he scoured archives and libraries, Paul uncovered a trove of candid images and began to post these on social media, where they sparked an extraordinary reaction. Friends and relatives of the individuals in the photographs commented online, and through this dialogue, rich histories came to light for the first time. ''Blanket toss under midnight sun'' collects some of the most arresting images and stories from Paul's project. While many of the photographs live in public archives, most have never been shown to the people in the communities they represent. As such, ''Blanket Toss'' is not only an invaluable historical record, it is a meaningful act of reclamation, showing the ongoing resilience of Indigenous communities, past, present--and future.
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Itee Pootoogook belonged to a new generation of Inuit artists who are transforming and reshaping the creative traditions that were successfully pioneered by their parents and grandparents in the second half of the 20th century. A meticulous draughtsman who worked with graphite and coloured pencil, Itee depicted buildings in Kinngait that incorporated a perspectival view,(...)
June 2021
Itee Pootoogook : hymns to the silence
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Itee Pootoogook belonged to a new generation of Inuit artists who are transforming and reshaping the creative traditions that were successfully pioneered by their parents and grandparents in the second half of the 20th century. A meticulous draughtsman who worked with graphite and coloured pencil, Itee depicted buildings in Kinngait that incorporated a perspectival view, a relatively recent practice influenced by his training as a carpenter and his interest in photography. His portraits of acquaintances and family members similarly bear witness to the contemporary North. Whether he depicts them at work or resting, his subjects are engaged in a range of activities from preparing carcasses brought in from hunting to playing music or contemplating the landscape of the North. Itee was also an inventive landscapist. Many of his finest Arctic scenes emphasize the open horizon that separates land from sky and the ever-shifting colours of the Arctic. Rendering the variable light of the landscape with precision, he brought a level of attention that contributed, over time, to his style.
What is the imagined North?
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The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century(...)
What is the imagined North?
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The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century ago, which makes the “North” the product of a double perspective: an outside one – made especially of Western images – and an inside one – that of Northern cultures (Inuit, Sami, Cree, etc.). The first are often simplified and the second, ignored. If we wish to understand what the “North” is in an overall perspective, we must ask ourselves two questions: how do images define the North, and which ethical principles should govern how we consider Northern cultures in order to have a complete view (including, in particular, those that have been undervalued by the South)? In this article, I try to address these two questions, first by defining what is the imagined North and then by proposing an inclusive program to “recomplexify” the cultural Arctic.
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Dans cet essai historique en éducation, le premier sur ce sujet, Véronique Paul, en collaboration avec Elisapi Uitangak Tukalak et Siaja Mark Mangiuk, raconte les étapes et les défis de la prise en charge de la scolarisation des communautés inuites du Nunavik (Québec) de 1950 à 1990. Elle démontre la résistance dont ont fait preuve les Inuits face à des institutions(...)
Une histoire de la scolarisation au Nunavik
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Dans cet essai historique en éducation, le premier sur ce sujet, Véronique Paul, en collaboration avec Elisapi Uitangak Tukalak et Siaja Mark Mangiuk, raconte les étapes et les défis de la prise en charge de la scolarisation des communautés inuites du Nunavik (Québec) de 1950 à 1990. Elle démontre la résistance dont ont fait preuve les Inuits face à des institutions venues de l’extérieur et les méthodes qu’ils ont développées afin d’intégrer leur langue et leurs cultures dans leurs écoles. Elle s’intéresse particulièrement à deux communautés dissidentes, celles d’Ivujivik et de Puvirnituq, qui ont entrepris de construire et d’administrer leur propre projet d’école pour et par les populations locales. L’étude permet de mieux comprendre le chemin parcouru par ceux et celles qui ont vécu ces changements et rend compte, par conséquent, de la situation au Nunavik vis-à-vis de l’institution scolaire.
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Le Nord est un espace imaginé et représenté depuis des siècles par les artistes et les écrivains du monde occidental, ce qui a mené, au fil du temps et de l'accumulation successive de couches de discours, à la création d'un « imaginaire du Nord » - que ce Nord soit celui de la Scandinavie, du Groenland, de la Russie ou du Grand Nord, ou encore des pôles. Or les(...)
Qu'est-ce que l'imaginaire du Nord ?
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Le Nord est un espace imaginé et représenté depuis des siècles par les artistes et les écrivains du monde occidental, ce qui a mené, au fil du temps et de l'accumulation successive de couches de discours, à la création d'un « imaginaire du Nord » - que ce Nord soit celui de la Scandinavie, du Groenland, de la Russie ou du Grand Nord, ou encore des pôles. Or les Occidentaux ont atteint le Pôle Nord il n'y a qu'un siècle, ce qui fait du « Nord » le produit d'un double regard, de l'extérieur – les représentations, surtout occidentales – et de l'intérieur – les cultures nordiques (inuites, scandinaves, cries, etc.). Les premières étant souvent simplifiées et les secondes méconnues, si l'on souhaite étudier le « Nord » dans une perspective d'ensemble, nous devons donc poser deux questions : comment définir le Nord par l'imaginaire ?
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