Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism
| dc.contributor.author | De Vivo, Erika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-28T07:49:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-28T07:49:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-11-24 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2083-2931 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44368 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through a concept presented to festivalgoers via site-specific scenography, visual narratives, and performances. This essay, addressing the festival as a site of artistic activism, reveals the conceptual bases and cultural significance of the festival-plot in relation to Indigenous Sámi cosmologies, the past and the possible future(s) in our time marked by escalating climate change. I argue that Márkomeannu-2018, providing a narrative about the future in which, amidst the Western societies’ dystopic colonial implosion, Indigenous people thrive, can be regarded as an expression of Indigenous Futurism. Counterpointing 19th-century theories predicting the imminent vanishing of Indigenous peoples while positioning the Sámi as modern Indigenous peoples with both a past and a future, this narrative constitutes an act of empowerment. Sámi history and intangible cultural heritage constituted repositories of meaning whereas a folktale constituted a framework for the festival-plot while providing an allegorical tool to read the present. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego | pl |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;12 | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | |
| dc.subject | Sámi festivals | en |
| dc.subject | artistic activism | en |
| dc.subject | climate change | en |
| dc.subject | Indigenous Futurism | en |
| dc.title | Márkomeannu#2118, the Future is Already Here: Imagining a Sámi Future at the Intersection of Art and Activism | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.page.number | 227-246 | |
| dc.contributor.authorAffiliation | University of Torino | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2084-574X | |
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| dc.contributor.authorEmail | erika.devivo@unito.it | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.18778/2083-2931.12.14 |
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