Sialussuartut | Like a Cloudburst: Redefining Greenlandic Art History

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen, DK)

Saturday 9. September, 2023, 10.00 - 16.30

My colleague Anna Vestergaard Jørgensen and I are co-organizing a symposium at the Danish National Gallery in honor of Jessie Kleemann, esteemed performance artist, poet, painter, and educator. Welcome!

The symposium will take place in-person and live streaming will be available - registration at this link.

This seminar celebrates the opening of the SMK’s first major exhibition of acclaimed Kalaaleq Inuk artist Jessie Kleemann. Sialussuartut | Like a Cloudburst honors Kleemann’s efforts to expand the field of possibility for Greenlandic artists throughout her esteemed, four decade-long career. Taking its point of departure in her experimental practice, the seminar aims to spark renewed dialogue about contemporary Greenlandic art, about the status of embodied action in art, and about the politics and aesthetics of decolonization.

Pressing Matters: Prints and Political Activism in the 20th and 21st Centuries

LACMA (Los Angeles, CA)

Saturday 29. April, 2023, 9.00 - 16.00

I presented at a symposium on political graphics organized by LACMA. My paper, “Primary Colors for the Fourth World: Graphic Media and Indigenous Sovereignty in 1970s Scandinavia,” expanded on material I explored in an essay recently published in Konsthistorisk tidskrift.

A description of the symposium can be found here.

Inuk Silis Høegh’s video installation The Green Land

Inuk Silis Høegh has debuted a major exhibition of his multi-channel video installation The Green Land at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen. I was honored to consult on the project and work on writing related to it at an early stage. Read more about the project here.

Blikke på Grønland Symposium

The Greenlandic House Aarhus (Aarhus, DK)

Saturday 13. November, 2021, 11.00 - 15.30

I was invited to participate in the symposium Blikke på Grønland / Gazes on Greenland organized by ASSINGA, Aarhus Feminist Collective, The Greenlandic House Aarhus, and Galleri Image. My presentation focused on the neglected history of early video art in Kalaallit Nunaat.

See descriptions of the event (in English) here—og (på dansk) her.