Making connections: Pia Arke and feminists using photography

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Maude-Roxby, A. 2024. Making connections: Pia Arke and feminists using photography. in: Pia Arke Southampton, UK John Hansard Gallery. pp. 15-24
Chapter titleMaking connections: Pia Arke and feminists using photography
AuthorsMaude-Roxby, A.
Abstract

The works of Pia Arke (1958-2007) have remained visible primarily in Denmark and Kalaalit Nunaat (Greenland). The co-curated between John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin exhibitions Pia Arke: Silences and Stories (at John Hansard Gallery February 10th to May 11th 2024) and Pia Arke: Arctic Hysteria (KW, Berlin, 6th July to 20th October 2024) bring Pia Arke's work to new audiences and contexts. In my essay for the KW/John Hansard catalogue- Making Connections: Pia Arke and Feminists Using Photography- I situate Arke's uses of photography as a tool to unpack colonialist legacies and histories, in relation to feminist practices that were evolving through the 70s, 80s and 90s in parallel contexts. In this way Arke's practice is brought into dialogue with Maud Sutter, Carrie Mae Weems, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Anderson, Carolee Schneemann and Trina T. Minh-Ha. Pia Arke wrote that "My pictorial work deals almost exclusively with the silence that surrounds the bonds between Greenland and Denmark. I was myself born into that silence. I am a mongrel. It is probably no coincidence that I turned to photography, which in many ways is the bastard of art forms", 1995. The essay draws parallels between different methodologies and 'uses of photography' put to work by Sutter, Weems and others, in order to tease out the particularities of Arke's approach and position her work within a wider feminist discourse.

KeywordsPia Arke; Photography; Colonialism; Feminism
Sustainable Development Goals10 Reduced inequalities
Middlesex University ThemeCreativity, Culture & Enterprise
Research GroupCREATE/Feminisms cluster
Page range15-24
Book titlePia Arke
PublisherJohn Hansard Gallery
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Place of publicationSouthampton, UK
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
Paperback9781912431236
Publication dates
Print04 May 2024
Publication process dates
Accepted04 Dec 2023
Deposited01 Jul 2024
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The publication includes an introduction by Ron Carter and essays by Mette Sandbye, Tiara Roxanne, Sofie Krogh Christensen, Siri Paulsen, Trina T. Minh-Ha.

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