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aqtuqsi is a dream from which one must wake up,
a paralyzing nightmare. “I decided to put my aqtuqsi
in video. It’s so interesting because it is not
a nightmare or a regular dream. An aqtuqsi is
something that can paralyze you when you’re sleeping.”
Mary Kunuk lives and works in Igloolik, Nunavut. A member
of the Inuit collective Arnait Video Production (Women’s
video workshop), founded in Igloolik in 1991, she has
been making videos since 1993. A number of her works are
the result of a collaborative process with her community,
her family, or other video artists, including Marie-Hélène
Cousineau. Her videos are now presented all over the world.
In the publication Souffle/Breathing, which was
just published by Optica, Nicole Gingras presented this
work as part of the new aesthetics of contemporary video.
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Mary Kunuk, image
fixe tirée de Aqtuqsi (My Nightmare), 1996,
vidéo Betacam NTSC, 5 min. Avec l’aimable permission
de l’artiste et de V-Tape.
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