Tupilakosaurus - an incomplete(able) survey of Pia Arke's artistic work and research

Tupilakosaurus. An incomplete(able) survey of Pia Arkes artistic work and research. Very fine copy with text in english. En kortlægning af Pia Arkes samlede værk, praksis og metode. I essays og billeder dokumenteres, hvordan Arke viede sin kunstneriske praksis til at bryde den tavshed, der omgiver de historiske forhold mellem Danmark og Grønland. Dvd-videoen indeholder fire videoværker af Pia Arke. Indhold (dvd-video): Arctic hysteria ; Tupilakosaurus : an interesting study about the triassic myth of Kap Stosch ; Untitled : stories from Scoresbysund ; Countryside – an installation about flowers and land. / A comprehensive monograph on the seminal work of Greenlandic-Danish visual artist and thinker Pia Arke (1958–2007) With contributions by Pia Arke, Lars Kiel Bertelsen, Tine Bryld, Erik Gant, Søren Jønsson Granat, Mirjam Joensen, Stefan Jonsson, Carsten Juhl, Anders Jørgensen, Mette Jørgensen, Inge Kleivan, Kuratorisk Aktion, Jan-Erik Lundström, Iben Mondrup, Sara Olsvig, Søren Bro Pold, Irit Rogoff, Mette Sandbye, Kirsten Thisted, and Finn Thrane. The richly illustrated 400-page book constitutes the first survey in print of Pia Arke’s collected works, practice, and methodology. In essays and images, the book documents Arke’s lifelong artistic engagement with the silence that surrounds Denmark’s colonial presence in Greenland since 1721 and examines how she by unearthing the ‘little’ history of Greenland’s colonization managed to say something decisive about the much ‘bigger’ history of Western imperialism and the dynamics of today’s world order. In addition, the book contains a DVD presenting a selection of Arke’s individual and collaborative video works.