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Âlut Kangermio
Venue: 11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Was also part of: exp. 1
Âlut Kangermio
Born 1822 in Kangeq, GL – died 1869 in Kangeq, GL
In 1858 the skilled seal hunter Âlut Kangermio was too ill with tuberculosis to go out in his kayak. Bedridden, he devoted himself to recording the oral histories told by elders in his Greenlandic community of Kangeq through texts, drawings, woodcuts, and small watercolors. It was in this domestic infirmary, crowded with his similarly ill family, that he created the series K’avdlunâtsianik [On the Norsemen and the Skraelings]. Skraelings was a term used by the Norse to refer to the Inuit. The watercolors depict a massacre of Inuk women and children, followed by the burning down of the Norse settlement by the Greenlanders. A hundred years later the series was presented with an introduction stating: “Greenland publishes her counterpart to the sagas of the Norse era, a living proof that the Skraelings remain the final victors of the struggle with the Norsemen.” The Norse were predecessors of the Danish, who to this day continue their colonial rule in the region.
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