Live video discussion from North Baffin draws crowd to Canadian pavilion at 2019 Venice Biennale GlobeArts
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Kunuk was visiting the Canada Pavilion via satellite, beaming in from 5,000 kilometres away to treat the elite of the contemporary art world to a discussion about mineral extraction in the North Baffin region. Joined by four Inuit hunters, he and the men were supposed to be seal hunting, a sight that might have stopped the Eurocentric culturati in their well-heeled tracks.
Asinnajaq, a Montreal Inuit artist and one of five curators who orchestrated Isuma’s appearance at the Biennale, explained that the group had debated how to represent the collective’s work in Venice. There had been discussions of using set pieces and props from previous films – Zacharias Kunuk is the creator of such celebrated films as– to find an approach that might have seemed more fitting for a visual art exhibition than a feature-length narrative.
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