Art and Waste in Panniqtuqq (Pangnirtung) Nunavut.

This internship follows a four-year collaboration of a group of Inuit artists with settler Canadian artist and Ph.D. candidate Micky Renders, who are raising awareness about the historical, present and imagined future of ‘wastes’ in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut. This internship will support the critical curation of socially-engaged visual art and stories on the theme of Arctic ‘wastes’ (broadly defined as both literal and symbolic), with a focus on community advocacy. The Art and Wastes in Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), Nunavut Exhibition will be mounted at Queens’ University in October 2023 and the Art Gallery of Peterborough in 2025. The writing of all supporting texts and documentation, marketing of the exhibition, and organization of related events, will aim to foster discourse on Arctic wastes and probe the following questions: What are the roles of settler-colonialism and neoliberalism as they intersect with settler-Canadian research practices and wastes in Inuit Nunangat? Who gets to define wastes, and who is responsible for the myriad of waste-related issues in Inuit Nunangat?

Faculty Supervisor:

Myra Hird

Student:

Partner:

Art Gallery of Peterborough;Hamlet of Pangnirtung

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Queen's University

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