Long Distance and Close Contact: a Review of iNuit Blanche

Labrador can feel far away. This is not only the result of the often difficult and expensive voyage most need to reach the locale, but is also due to a conceptual notion of the North as far from daily life in the South. We, as authors, are also distanced from the cultural context and everyday life of Labrador. For us as white southern Canadian cultural workers, iNuit Blanche (October 8, 2016) and SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut (October 8, 2016–January 15, 2017) marked some of our first significant encounters with a diversity of art practices from Inuit communities in Labrador and the global circumpolar region. iNuit Blanche worked to narrow physical and conceptual distances by bringing artists and thinkers to gather in the provincial capital.
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