LB°20 — Program
ARKIV
In her presentation Inuit Tattoo Traditions – Research and Practice, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen describes how she, as part of a cultural context and a trained tattoo artist, in her research works with cultural anchoring and language.
Maya Sialuk Jacobsen’s interdisciplinary research moves between anthropology, archeology and ethnology. Sialuk Jacobsen is involved in experimental archeology around pre-electric tattooing tools, methods and craft in the form of hands-on tattoo practice, forms another layer in her research. In indigenous knowledge systems, such as Inuit myths and ways of relating to and viewing the world, the answers to who, why, where and how Inuit traditionally practiced tattooing are included. The tattoos is a result of the research done exclusively on Inuits from Inuit areas in the North American Arctic and the work is mainly focused on identity. The intention to investigate social transformation and the creation of healing are elements that help define methodologies for Indigenous research.
Maya Sialuk Jacobsen comes from Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, and founded the Inuit Tattoo Traditions research project in 2010.
The presentation will be in english and is part of the seminar Earthed Imagination.