Art and Waste in Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), Nunavut.
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Authors
renders, micky a.f.
Date
2025-02-07
Type
thesis
Language
eng
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Research-Creation , Inuit , Waste , Settler-colonization , Decolonization , Art , Activism , Inuit Nunangat , Public Scholarship , Neoliberal colonial capitalism
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The Art and Waste in Panniqtuuq Exhibition explores the ways Inuit Nunangat is a site where differing ideologies, epistemologies and cosmologies collide, and hegemonic assumptions marginalize Inuit ways of knowing and being (Zahara & Hird, 2016). Inuit have identified waste as a serious environmental, social and health threat. This collaborative, participatory community project interrogates the concept of waste (broadly defined as both tangible and intangible) in Panniqtuuq and asks who decides what is waste and who is responsible for the myriad of waste-related issues. An ad hoc collective of Inuit artists has produced art to animate personal and collective stories about their lived experiences to provide a counter-narrative to prevailing beliefs about Inuit and waste. I have created an installation - made of waste about waste from my perspective as a PhD candidate, waste researcher, and cis-gendered, white settler Canadian. I reversed my scholarly gaze and used research-creation to interrogate historical processes and deeply rooted white settler-colonialist assumptions, including those I have internalized and benefited from, linking these to barriers to Inuit sovereignty and rights to a healthy and safe environment. The portfolio of related work culminates in knowledge mobilization through public scholarship - a co-created touring art exhibition and critical accompanying pedagogical texts to raise awareness, encourage dialogue and call for urgent action in response to the historical, present and imagined future of waste in Panniqtuuq, integral to Canada’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation.
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