A New Blog For What Intentions ?
The aim of this blog consists in examining and documenting Inuit artistic creation on a pan-Inuit scale close to past and contemporary Inuit culture in Alaska, Greenland, Nunavut and Nunavik (Canadian Eastern Arctic).
Our interest focuses on works of art, creators and artistic events like exhibition and cultural projects devoted to Inuit art and more largely to First Nations art on an international perspective. This blog also aims at sharing knowledge acquired in situ among artistic actors of local sphere in order to engage a reflexion about Inuit art and culture.
Whereas the diffusion of Inuit art on the international art scene, Inuit culture still suffers of numerous preconceived ideas. Let us remember that before they managed to have a voice on the political scene, the Inuit had previously acquired recognition thanks to the diffusion of their art in Western countries.
The first sale exhibition of contemporary Inuit art took place in 1949 in Montreal. Ever since it acquired in 1953 the double status of work of art and national Canadian art when the Queen is given, as a diplomatic present from the federal government, an Inuit contemporary carving, Inuit works of art are present on national and international scale through museums, galleries and private collections.
Artistic creation constitutes an essential component in the elaboration of Inuit contemporary discourse on identity. The strong involvement of artists in cultural domain provides them with a new status locally and internationally as spokespersons of a culture that is changing while being anchored in its ancient traditions and being still open to the outside world.
