Witch hunt
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Witch hunt. / Sandström, Frida.
In: Artforum International, 06.01.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Communication
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T1 - Witch hunt
AU - Sandström, Frida
PY - 2021/1/6
Y1 - 2021/1/6
N2 - In Danish-Greenlandic artist Pia Arke’s video work Arctic Hysteria, 1996, the artist presses her undressed body against a large photographic print of her still-colonized home landscape. The image is torn in pieces by the friction between Arke’s skin and the print, and later, also by Arke’s resolute hands. Borrowing its title from the settler’s lingua—Arctic Hysteria describes a mental illness, presumably endemic among Innuit women, distinguished by fits of rage and sporadic undressing—Arke’s piece strategically overidentifies with projected hysteria in the context of a contemporary Danish colonial heritage.
AB - In Danish-Greenlandic artist Pia Arke’s video work Arctic Hysteria, 1996, the artist presses her undressed body against a large photographic print of her still-colonized home landscape. The image is torn in pieces by the friction between Arke’s skin and the print, and later, also by Arke’s resolute hands. Borrowing its title from the settler’s lingua—Arctic Hysteria describes a mental illness, presumably endemic among Innuit women, distinguished by fits of rage and sporadic undressing—Arke’s piece strategically overidentifies with projected hysteria in the context of a contemporary Danish colonial heritage.
M3 - Literature review
JO - Artforum International
JF - Artforum International
SN - 1086-7058
ER -
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