Tupilaq (In the Shadow of Solarity)
- Amanda Boetzkes (author)
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| Title | Tupilaq (In the Shadow of Solarity) |
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| Contributor | Amanda Boetzkes (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.19 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/solarities-elemental-encounters-and-refractions/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Amanda Boetzkes |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2023-11-22 |
| Long abstract | This chapter considers “solarity” as an elemental agent that shapes the cultural regimes of the circumpolar North. I discuss how solar energy weathers the artifacts of the Thule people, the ancestors of the contemporary Inuit. The sun draws out the oils and bleaches the surfaces of Thule remains, yielding them up for use in the production of tools, commodities and archaeological objects of study. But where this process might be understood to neutralize the meaning of Thule artifacts, priming them for scientific study, I suggest otherwise. Following the lead of Inuit mythology, I locate solarity in its diurnal and seasonal interplay with other irreducible elements, as these overlap, transgress and withdraw from one another. This trajectory counteracts the technoscientific perspective at work in environmental archaeology, that would position cultural changes (from the Thule to the Inuit, specifically) as a passive adaptation to natural change. By contrast, I position solarity as a force that vitalizes material culture, its capacity to cast shadows and yield an account of artifacts beyond positivist frames. The insights of solarity come by way of reading its interaction with the moon, the night, with bone and sinew, with land and water, tools and carvings, climate changes, animal migrations, and the forced displacement of the circumpolar Inuit. |
| Page range | pp. 215–230 |
| Print length | 16 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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Amanda Boetzkes
(author)Amanda Boetzkes is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on the relationship between perception and representation, theories of consciousness, and ecology. She has analyzed complex human relationships with the environment through the lens of aesthetics, patterns of human waste, and the global energy economy. She is the author of Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste (MIT Press, 2019), The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and a forthcoming book titled Ecologicity: Vision and the Planetarity of Art. Co-edited books include Artworks for Jellyfish (And Other Others) (Noxious Sector, 2022), Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Routledge, 2014), and a forthcoming volume on Art’s Realism in the Post-Truth Era (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Currently, she is the principal investigator of At the Moraine, a multi-year, collaborative research project that studies the mediation and representation of global climate change, with a special focus on Indigenous territories of the circumpolar North.