Queer and Indigenous Art: Performing Ice Times in Climate Crisis
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Abstract
This essay takes up <i>cryotemporalities</i>, or "ice times," addressing climate anxiety and feeling regarding measuring, surviving, and anticipating climate crises. Buddies in Bad Times's production Kiinalik: <i>These Sharp Tools</i> (2017) grapples with changing climate, sexuality, colonization, whiteness, and the suppression of Inuit cultural practices in north and south. Studying performance and media works by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Evalyn Parry, Jamie Griffiths, Tanya Tagaq, Zacharias Kunuk, and Norman Cohn, among others, the essay goes on to think with works by the Iqaluit, Nunavutbased <i>Qaggiavuut</i> Society and Igloolik's Isuma Collective. These meditations on performance include Laakkuluk's remarkable <i>uaajeerneq</i> (Greenlandic mask-dancing), the <i>qaggiq</i> or ceremonial iglu (igloo), site of late-winter gatherings for dance, feasting, drumming, games, and practices of gathering and spiritual resilience taken up as "'relived' cultural dramas" by Kunuk and Cohn. These artists' works shape pluralities of ways of knowing and doing that defy singular epistemologies of world, ecology, language, nationhood, and time. Shaped in resurgent Inuit practices, and traveling in the north, south, and internationally in politically charged engagements, these works refuse and interrogate settler constructions of sexuality, gender, and relationship with the nonhuman, speaking potently to contemporary conditions of rapid thaw affecting Greenland and Nunavut. Centering Inuit arts, languages, and practices while addressing recent histories and living memories of forced settlement, extraction, and cultural genocide in the Arctic and sub-Arctic, these works reveal ontologies of time charged with resurgent epistemic possibility, turning toward embodied and reimagined performance practice and expression in the circum-polar north.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it