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SUMMARY:Visual culture masterclass – Arctic Expedition Photography: Crit
 ical Perspectives\, Inuit Returns - Dr Carol Payne\, Professor of Art Hist
 ory\, Carleton University
DTSTART:20231102T140000Z
DTEND:20231102T160000Z
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:This masterclass will explore the photograph as a site of cult
 ural contact in the Arctic—ranging from visualized colonial authority to
  assertions of Inuit agency. The session will take place in collaboration 
 with the Scott Polar Research Institute’s Picture Library\, one of the m
 ost comprehensive collections of historic photographs depicting Polar Regi
 ons. We will view and discuss a selection of Arctic expedition photographs
  and other graphic works dating from the 1845 to 1931. This will allow us 
 to engage with photographs in material terms (Edwards 2022). \nOur viewing
  of works from the Picture Library will be illuminated through a wide-rang
 ing body of literature. This reading list includes historical discussions 
 of Arctic exploration\, theoretical analyses of the remediation of histori
 cal photographs (particularly by Indigenous peoples) as well as the materi
 ality of the photograph. It also includes work by contemporary Inuit artis
 ts Asinnajaq and Robert Kautuk\, and a discussion of the late Inuk artist 
 Pia Arke’s response to exploration photographs of Greenland. There is a 
 limited number of places for this event. Please email the convenors if you
  are interested. A reading list will be distributed to all participants in
  advance\, closer to the date. 
LOCATION:In-person - SPRI Old library
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