Re-enacting Inua: Artistic practice as Inuit research and method

Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

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Abstract

These two portfolio components comprise a sustained meditation on some of the challenges and conflicts of decolonizing Inuit politics and identity in Greenland. In the light of capital-intensive development programs forced upon and adopted by Inuit, these two works draw on arts-based inquiry to re-engage and re-enact Inuit ways of knowing and being as part of the political processes of defining and practicing self-determination in Greenland. They document a self-reflective, experimental and artistic journey through which Indigenous performance appears as a potential site for decolonization. They seek to build and create “living memory”, pressuring neo-colonial narratives and re-creating Inuit ways of life. The theatre script, Inua, engages artistically with the intergenerational acts of transfer of Inuit knowledge. Through the memories an Inuk elder, colonial legacies and old Inuit stories, the play seeks to portray the personal processes involved in decolonization and reclamation. The essay, Re-Enacting Inua: Artistic Practice as Inuit Research and Method, elaborates a method for articulating and performing political aspects of Inuit knowledge and identity through life histories and oral narratives.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftOutstanding Graduate Student Paper Series
Vol/bind9
Udgave nummer5
ISSN1702-3548
StatusUdgivet - 2013
Udgivet eksterntJa

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