Circumpolar Connections

Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic

Edited Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Joan Naviyuk Kane , Johannes Riquet

Sales Date: 2025-03-04

144 Pages, 8.25 x 11.70 in, 4 b&w photos, 30 color plates

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9780819501882

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GIITALAT/GIVING THANKS • TAKTUGZIUN/COMPASS Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Joan Naviyuk Kane and Johannes Riquet • LANDMARK – LANGUAGE • UNTITLED sata taas English, Sakha (translation by Sardaana Khokholova) • TWO RED PORE I Sonya Kelliher-Combs Mixed Media, 18" x 15" x 2" (photo by artist) • MIDNIGHT SUN, UNDERWORLD SUN Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari English (translation by Arden Johnsen) • HAECCEITY Louise Najavaraq Fontain English • IRBET TŊ sata taas Drawing, Photography • HAECCEITY Louise Najavaraq Fontain Kalaallisut (translation by Kavssâluk Imina Peary) • NANIAQTUAQ Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich Photograph • UGIUVAK Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen English • ANCESTORS IN THE SEA Louise Najavaraq Fontain Photo-Based Digital Artwork • LANDMARK – MEMORY • THE WHALE'S EYE Louise Najavaraq Fontain Photo-Based Digital Artwork • WATER LINES Abigail Chabitnoy English, Alutiiq • FLEINVÆR Julie Edel Hardenberg Digital Photograph • 'ISLANDS THAT CALL EACH OTHER': THOUGHTS ON THE (ARCTIC) ARCHIPELAGO Abigail Chabitnoy and Johannes Riquet English • REMNANT, HUMAN HAIR Sonya Kelliher-Combs Mixed Media, 18 14 2 (photo by Chris Arend) • TSÏEGLE – LAND PROTECTOR Tomas Colbengtson Overlayered Glass, Rockcrystal, 180 cm 120 cm 120 cm (photo by Nils Agdler) • MILE 28 Chandre Iqugan Szafran English • SWANS IN FLIGHT Markku Salmela English • CREDIBLE ALASKA WITH RED Sonya Kelliher-Combs Mixed Media, 60 38 2 (photo by Stars Gallery) • POLYSYNTHESIS/ARCTICA Miaraq (Warren Jones) and Jen Rose Smith English, Eyak • ICE 1–3 sata taas Drawing, Photography, Stills From Video • A SYMPHONY OCCURRING HIDDEN AWAY FROM HUMAN EYES AND HUMAN EARS TAKING PLACE DEEP UNDER THE ICE sata taas Stills From And Qr Code For Animated Short Film • LANDMARK – HEALING • ILUNNIT/FROM WITHIN/INDEFRA Julie Edel Hardenberg English, Kalaallisut, Danish • VERA Mary Ann Penashue Acrylic Painting On Canvas, 36" x 24" (photo by Melisa Chaulk) • JULIE EDEL HARDENBERGIP ALLATAANUT ISUMALIUUTIT Aviaq Fleischer Kalaallisut • REFLECTIONS ON JULIE EDEL HARDENBERG'S TEXTS Aviaq Fleischer English (translation by Magssanguaq Qujaukitsoq and Johannes Riquet) • LANDSCAPE OWNERSHIP AND ARCTIC IDENTITY Juha Ridanpää English • ENGLISH LANGUAGE ASSIMILATION AS A BITE OF SASHIMI Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen English • WHILE THEY BURN ME Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari English (translation by Arden Johnsen) • LANDMARK – SOVEREIGNTIES • SÁVNNJIIDE BÁRGIDUVVON – EMBROIDERED INTO SEAMS Ánna-Katri Helander English, North Sámi • ORRUNLATNJA Sunna Kitti Digital Painting, 11.7" x 8.3" • HARVESTING & FERMENTING BEACH GREENS TIES ME TO GRAM Laureli Ivanoff
English • HOPES FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT Louise Najavaraq Fontain Photo-Based Digital Artwork • ORANGE FROZEN CLOUDBERRIES IN AN OFF YEAR Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari English (translation by Arden Johnsen) • GOLDEN Liisa-Rávná Finbog English • GOLDEN Inga Anna H Fossli Mixed Media Artwork, Acrylic Painting And Ink Markers On Aquarelle Paper, 29.7 cm x 42 cm • LANDMARK – LAND-BASED PRACTICES • WHISPER Timimie Gassko Märak English • SOUNDS OF THE MISSING BIRDS sata taas Drawing, Photography • L'ARCHIVE DE LA FORÊT Daniel Chartier French • THE FOREST ARCHIVE Daniel Chartier English (translation by Daniel Graziadei) • РЕКОНСТРУИРУЯ ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ Vladimir Kocharyan Russian • RECONSTRUCTING MEMORIES Vladimir Kocharyan English (translation by Niurgustan Novopriezzhii) • HOME Louise Najavaraq Fontain Photo-Based Digital Artwork • ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ Vladimir Kocharyan and Adelaide McGinity-Peebles Russian • CINEMA AS THE BEAST IS THE DEMISE OF CONTEMPORANEITY Svetlana Romanova English • LANDMARK – ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE • DUODJI DIARY ENTRIES: ANÁR, SÁPMI, FROM AUGUST 2022 UNTIL TODAY Niillasaš-Jovnna Máreha Juhani Sunná Máret English, Digital Photographs • THREADS Gerry Himmelreich English • KILUT [STITCHES] Hans-Henrik Suersaq Poulsen Sealskin, Sewing, 10 cm x 15 cm x 5 cm • MARK, NANUK Sonya Kelliher-Combs Mixed Media, 48" x 48" x 0.5" (photo by Stars Gallery) • LANDMARK – COMMUNITY • SUŊAURAAQTAAQ Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich Photograph • STONES HE FOUND IN THE BELLIES OF ANIMALS Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen English • GÁDDJÁ JA JENNY MUITTAŠEABA Sigbjørn Skåden North Sámi • GÁDDJÁ AND JENNY REMINISCE Sigbjørn Skåden English (translation by Sigbjørn Skåden, revised by Olivia Lasky) • SOUNDTRACK FOR A SALMON MIGRATION ROAD TRIP Jenni Niska Finnish, Photograph From Author's Family Archive • SH TUGÁA XAT DITEE Nicholas Galanin Digital Photograph • SOUNDTRACK FOR A SALMON MIGRATION ROAD TRIP Jenni Niska English (translation by Jenni Niska) • THE SALMON Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen English • THE STORIES WE CARRY
Darcie Ouiyaghasiak Bernhardt Oil On Canvas, 48" x 60" x 2.5" • LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Joan Naviyuk Kane and Johannes Riquet • ABOUT THE CREATORS OF THIS BOOK

"Circumpolar Connections conveys the richness, diversity, and power of Indigenous cultural expressions of the Arctic. As these works bespeak deep ties between Native peoples and their lands, they demonstrate the role of creative practices in place-making. Beautifully illustrated and designed, this remarkable book is itself a work of art."
~Shari M. Huhndorf, Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

"This stunning and revelatory book speaks collectively of maps and compasses, but not the assumed ones. taktugziun in ugiuvak—fog—is both its compass and its form of navigation. taktugziun—its wetness, its density—envelops the contours of the land, it reveals an intimacy and depth of knowledge that requires no invented tools or outside technologies. In Circumpolar Connections, maps are embodied—indeed they are the body—as well as radical kinship that is held in story, song, poems, in hand drawn marks, in sewn stitches, and in tattoos inscribed like scores. Circumpolar Connections is a book like no other. It is a collection of impressions, of ideas, of images, of narratives refigured as non- and anti- colonial maps by some of the most radical Indigenous thinkers and makers working today. And their maps aren't the usual ones, theirs are centered around the sun standing in as the North Pole, such in as in elle-hánsa/hans ragnar Mathisen/Keviselie's 1990 circumpolar map davviálbmogat that forms an apt cartography for this collection. davviálbmogat doesn't create a hierarchy between land and water, between human and animal, between colonial languages and Indigenous mother tongues, between the secular and spiritual planes. davviálbmogat uses the sámi goaddis (the drum) as its methodology, a reminder that songs are maps, too, and that they sing other worlds into being."
~Candice Hopkins, curator and scholar, citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation

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