Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North
Winner, Melva J. Dwyer Award
Honourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research)

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a Sámi woman's headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond.

Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social wellbeing, and cultural identity.

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Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North
Winner, Melva J. Dwyer Award
Honourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research)

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a Sámi woman's headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond.

Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social wellbeing, and cultural identity.

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Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

Qummut Qukiria!: Art, Culture, and Sovereignty Across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the Circumpolar North

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Winner, Melva J. Dwyer Award
Honourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research)

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the continuance of longstanding practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a Sámi woman's headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond.

Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social wellbeing, and cultural identity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773102245
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Publication date: 08/30/2022
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.29(d)

About the Author

Anna Hudson is a professor of Canadian art history and curatorial studies at York University.

Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk scholar from Nunatsiavut and is the Concordia University research chair in circumpolar Indigenous arts.

Jan-Erik Lundström, a curator, critic, and art historian, is the former director of the Sámi Center for Contemporary Art.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Glossary 17

Section 1 Land and Language

Language Medicine Sigbjørn Skåden 37

Braids Taqralik Partridge 41

Aesthetic Terms for the Sámi Vocal Genre Juoigan Harald Gaski 45

Duodji Words: Telling about Beauty Gunvor Guttorm Ingá Elisá Påve Idivuoma Translated Kaija Anttonen 55

Oblate Ethnographers among the Inuit: Archives and Digital Repositories Frédéric Laugrand 63

Territorealise: Mapping and Remapping South Sami Culture, Landscape, and Language Sissel M. Bergh 74

Transatlantic Ping-pong Joar Nango Susane Havelka 87

Nannuppugut! Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory Illustrated Joshua Qaurmariaq 100

Section 2 Decolonial Practices

The Sápmi Lessons: Retoolment, Resurgence, and Re-existence in Indigenous Circumpolar Art Jan-Erik Lundström 116

Silaup Putunga in Context Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory interviewed Georgians Uhlyarik 140

We Got the Secret Got Object-About Pia Arke Niilas helander 149

Translated Jan-Erik Lundström

Meditations Nelson Tagoona 159

Among All These Tundras: A Visual Essay Charissa von Harringa Amy Prouty 169

Tunirrusiangit Revisited: Curating Inuit Art in Virtual Reality Anna Hudson Olivia Mikalajunas Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory Sarah Bay-Cheng Georgiana Uhlyarik Julia Cannella Hayley Crowder Hadia Hassan Eleni Pappas Vince Rozario Elizabeth Tsui 187

Ahqahizu Ruben Komangapik interviewed Anna Hudson 208

The Making of Ahqahizu Anna Hudson 215

On Being an Artist Koomuatuk (Kuzy) Curley interviewed Anna Hudson 220

Inspired by Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: Lessons for Qallunaat Designers Angela Norwood 226

The Unsettled Hunter Chris Hendershot interviewed Sky Panipak 231

Section 3 Community and Sovereignty

A Giisá for Formation in the Sami Community Asta Baito 237

Translated Olivia Lasky

Like an Immigrant Julie Edel Hardenberg 251

Views from the Fifth Joshua Stribbell 255

Inuit in the City: Being an Artist Adam Alorut 260

Máret Ánne Sara's Pile o'Sápmi Jan-Erik Lundström 269

Home Sweet Home (Oru lea buoret go jodi) Anne Lajla Utsi Liisa Holmberg interviewed Anna Hudson 277

Miinná Áhkku and Pirion 287

Written Taqralik Partridge

After a story told Mai Britt Utsi

Illustrations and story assistance Nils Ailo Utsi

Avaluqanngittuq: Imagining Inuit Futures through Multimedia/Digital Storytelling Koomuatuk (Kuzy) Curley Hannah Fowlie Piers Kreps Ruben Komangapik Ingrid Mündel Margaret Panipak Sky Panipak Stephen Agluvak Puskas Carla Rice Joshua Stribbell Gabriel Uqaituk 294

Sananguaq: Inuit Stone Carving for Our Community Byron Gray Lorna Schwartzentruber Nathan Stern Ayodele Lawson 313

Revisiting Sakkijâjuk, Tending the Kudlik-Four Generations of Tradition and innovation on the Labrador Coast Heather Igloliorte 319

Section 4 Circumpolar Resurgence

Taking Curatorial Control: A Personal Recollection of Curating Tunirrusiangit Jocelyn Piirainen 335

Artists Take the Lead: Shifting the Balance in a Changing Inuit Art World Heather Igloliorte Alysa Procida 340

In the Vicinity of Hearing-A Sámi Underside Niilas helander 350

Arctic Chills: The Indigenous Horror Film Series from the Arctic Liisa Holmberg 359

The Cunning Sami Geir Tore Holm 364

Translated Olivia Lasky

iNuit Blanche: Reflections on the First All-Night Festival of Inuit Art, Performance, Food, and Film Hannah Morgan 372

Photographs Chris P. Sampson

The Ládjogahpir Rematriated: Sámi Women and the Influence of Colonialism Eeva-Kristiina Harlin Ciske-Jovsset Biret Hánsa Outi/Outi Pieski 385

Anaanavut llisaijigiqaaqtavut Iliniarutigijavut Qisiliritigluttat (Our Mothers, Our First Teachers: Lessons from Sealskin Sewing) Sheila Katsak Nancy Wachowich 395

Nuka and the Giant Taqralik Partridge 408

Illustrations Nils Ailo Utsi

Index 428

Contributors 435

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