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dc.contributor.advisorHammer Stien, Hanne
dc.contributor.authorSpreter von Kreudenstein, Stephanie
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-02T08:07:35Z
dc.date.available2024-12-02T08:07:35Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-13
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a feminist contribution to a circumpolar art history in becoming. By examining contemporary artistic practices anchored in the Arctic and the circumpolar North three entangled issues are identified: climate change and environmental destruction, gendered spaces and colonial legacies. A common characteristic to the artistic practices studied are the use of the camera and photography, both as emancipatory tool and in reference to the role the mediums played in contributing to the violation and exploitation of the Arctic and the circumpolar North and its Indigenous inhabitants. Three independent articles with its in-depth examinations of works by female artists Himali Singh Soin, Tonje Bøe Birkeland and Pia Arke, stand central in the research. The articles form the basis of the outlined thematic issues which simultaneously function as analytical categories in the cover article. Here the works of Soin, Birkeland and Arke are contextualized, and connected to the artistic practices of Terje Abusdal, Evgenia Arbugeva, Hanan Benammar, Sophie Calle, Cristina de Middel, Carola Grahn, Marja Helander, niilas helander, Siri Hermansen, Judit Hersko, Katarina Pirak Sikku and Liselotte Wajstedt. The contextualization includes an examination of artists’ roles within historical and contemporary expedition culture. By employing a method of writing with and listening to, the thesis discloses how historically dismissed stories and events materialize in contemporary art anchored in the Arctic and the circumpolar North. It shows how artistic practices productively speculate about histories in which silent or silenced voices could have been heard. Through the application of theories and methods beyond established art historical ones, the thesis makes it possible to link contemporary artistic practices, art history, posthuman feminism, decolonial and cultural theory, and Arctic and environmental humanities discourses.en_US
dc.description.abstractDenne avhandlingen er et feministisk bidrag til en sirkumpolar kunsthistorie som er under tilblivelse. Gjennom å undersøke samtidige kunstneriske praksiser forankret i Arktis og det sirkumpolare nord identifiseres tre sammenvevde tematikker: klimaendringer og miljøødeleggelse, kjønnede rom og kolonial arv. Et kjennetegn ved de kunstneriske praksisene som studeres, er bruken av kamera og fotografi – både som et emansipatorisk verktøy, og knyttet til fotografiets rolle i forbindelse med vold og undertrykkelse av urbefolkningene og utvinning av ressurser i Arktisk og det sirkumpolare nord. Tre uavhengig publiserte artikler med dyptgående undersøkelser av verkene til de kvinnelige kunstnerne Himali Singh Soin, Tonje Bøe Birkeland og Pia Arke står sentralt i forskningen. Artiklene utgjør grunnlaget for de identifiserte tematikkene, og fungerer samtidig som analytiske kategorier i avhandlingens kappe. Her kontekstualiseres verkene til Soin, Birkeland og Arke og settes i sammenheng med de kunstneriske praksisene til Terje Abusdal, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Hanan Benammar, Sophie Calle, Cristina de Middel, Carola Grahn, Marja Helander, niilas helander, Siri Hermansen, Judit Hersko, Katarina Pirak Sikku og Liselotte Wajstedt. Kontekstualiseringen inkluderer også en undersøkelse av kunstneres roller i en historisk og samtidig ekspedisjonskultur. Ved å anvende en metode for å skrive med og lytte til avdekker avhandlingen hvordan fortellinger og hendelser som ikke er innlemmet i historien materialiserer seg i samtidskunst forankret i Arktis og det sirkumpolare nord. Den viser videre hvordan kunstneriske praksiser på en produktiv og spekulerende måte gir stemme til de som har blitt fortiet eller har vært tause. Gjennom å ta i bruk av teorier og metoder som befinner seg utenfor etablerte kunsthistoriske rammer, gjør avhandlingen det mulig å knytte sammen samtidskunstpraksiser, kunsthistorie, posthuman feminisme, dekolonial og kulturell teori, og diskurser innen arktisk miljøhumaniora.en_US
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en_US
dc.description.popularabstractThis thesis is a feminist contribution to a circumpolar art history in becoming. By examining contemporary artistic practices anchored in the Arctic and the circumpolar North three entangled issues are identified: climate change and environmental destruction, gendered spaces and colonial legacies. Three independent articles with its in-depth examinations of works by female artists Himali Singh Soin, Tonje Bøe Birkeland and Pia Arke, stand central in the research. The articles form the basis of the outlined thematic issues which simultaneously function as analytical categories in the cover article. Here the works of Soin, Birkeland and Arke are contextualized, and connected to other artistic practices. Through the application of theories and methods beyond established art historical ones, the thesis makes it possible to link contemporary artistic practices, art history, posthuman feminism, decolonial and cultural theory, and Arctic and environmental humanities discourses.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/35862
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.relation.haspart<p>Paper 1: Spreter, S. von (2024). Sensing Polar Ice Bodies. In Hemkendreis, A. & Jürgens, A.S. (Eds), <i>Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics. Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication</i> (pp 123-142). Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature, Cham. Also available at <a href= https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39787-5_7>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39787-5_7</a>. <p>Paper 2: Spreter, S. von (2021). Feminist strategies for changing the story: reimagining Arctic exploration narratives through (the staging of) photographs, travel writing and found objects. <i>Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 13</i>(1), 1997462. Also available at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2021.1997462>https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2021.1997462</a>. <p>Paper 3: Spreter, S. von (2022). Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork. <i>Kunst og Kultur, 105</i>(2-3), 87-102. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33642>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33642</a>.en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.subjectArcticen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary arten_US
dc.subjectcircumpolar Northen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectcolonial legaciesen_US
dc.subjectphotographyen_US
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen_US
dc.subjectTonje Bøe Birkelanden_US
dc.subjectPia Arkeen_US
dc.subjectHimali Singh Soinen_US
dc.subjectfeminist theoryen_US
dc.subjectclimate changeen_US
dc.titleDestructed Environments, Gendered Spaces and Colonial Legacies. Contemporary Artistic Practices Sensing the Arctic and the Circumpolar Northen_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen_US


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