@misc{56da5ec8dd914f868c016eeda892c25f,
title = "Wiping the Ice-Cream off your Face",
abstract = "An artistic dialogue on De-Arctification to celebrate 30 years of the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland. Wiping the Ice-Cream Off your Face{\textquoteright} is an art exhibition involving a dialogue between invited artists from the Nordic countries and a selection of artists from the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland, on the theme of De-Arctification.",
keywords = "de-artification, Arctic arts, nykytaide, Lappi, arktinen yhteisty{\"o}, tuohi, luonnonmateriaalit",
author = "Amanda Riffo and Arttu Nieminen and Eliina Hurtig and Friday Milk and Hanna Kanto and Henri Hagman and Jaakko Heikkil{\"a} and Jouko Alapartanen and Hardenberg, {Julie Edel} and Kaija Kiuru and Karoliina Paatos and Konsta Huusko and Leila Lipi{\"a}inen and Mari Oikarinen and Mariane Lyngs{\o} and Pia M{\"o}ller-Light and Maria Huhmarniemi and Marjo Pernu and Minna Linja and Outi Pieski and Panu Johansson and Peter Winquist and Pirkko M{\"a}kel{\"a}-Haapalinna and Raisa Raekallio and Randi Samsonsen and Risto Immonen and Seija Ulkuniemi and Sanna Haimila and Satu Kalliokuusi and Savu Korteniemi and Simi Ruotsalainen and Solveig Ovanger and Timo Jokela and Tomas Colbengtson and Tuomas Korkalo",
note = "An artistic dialogue on De-Arctification to celebrate 30 years of the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland. {\textquoteleft}Wiping the Ice-Cream Off your Face{\textquoteright} is an art exhibition involving a dialogue between invited artists from the Nordic countries and a selection of artists from the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland, on the theme of De-Arctification. The exhibition, held at Galleria Valo, Arktikum, in Rovaniemi from 11th of June to 13th of August 2021, marks 30 years of activity of the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland. The project is jointly put together by Kittil{\"a}-based artist/curator Misha del Val and Arctic Culture Lab – Greenland, Artistic Director, Andreas Hoffmann, in close collaboration with the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland. It presents the work of 35 artists: 9 artists from all Nordic countries (including Greenland, Faroe Islands and {\AA}land) plus Russia, alongside 26 artists belonging to the Artists{\textquoteright} Association of Lapland. On the whole, {\textquoteleft}Wiping the Ice-Cream Off your Face{\textquoteright} aims at reconsidering notions about the North and contemporary Arctic culture outside the mainstream, conventional way of thinking, in a process we are calling {\textquoteleft}De-arctification{\textquoteright}: “Many -below and above the arctic circle- have an interest in seeing the Arctic just as a big ball of ice-cream: strawberry pink of polar skies and creamy white of snowy forests. This is a phenomenon, known as {\textquoteleft}Arctification{\textquoteright}, by which partial and simplistic views and ideas are fabricated, imposed and sustained on the Arctic, to suit political and economical agendas (take, for instance, the winter tourism industry) and/or a widespread naive sentimentality. The peoples living in the region, its rich traditions and culture, get reduced, through this oversimplification, as an exotic other, a barren wintery destination, or a geopolitical periphery -in ways that remind us too much to the postulates that Edward W. Said discussed in his work Orientalism.” The {\textquoteleft}De-arcticfication{\textquoteright} forces are directed towards promoting perspectives on the multi-layered complexity of the North and broadening any provisional definition about an Arctic identity. Artists in the exhibition reflect on the reality, create up-to-date understandings, and share perspectives on the Nordic Arctic as a place to live, work and raise our children, culturally able and robust.; Wiping the Ice-Cream Off Your Face ; Conference date: 11-06-2021 Through 13-08-2021",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
publisher = "Lapin taiteilijaseura",
address = "Finland",
}