Snowblindness
Agenda
Snowblindness Booklaunch
Onomatopee warmly invite you to celebrate the launch of the publication Snowblindness Onomatopee 212. Program with an conversation between the contributors and on Friday January 13 from 20:00 -23:00 at Onomatopee in Eindhoven.
Snowblindness - Let's talk about storytelling, colonials, Netflix and my great-grandfather presents new grounds of engagement with a polar explorer's story and the 'collective memory' in the dominant history of Nordic colonialism. This book reflects through collaboration on editorial practices in design and research, as it comments and questions history, ethics, and aesthetics through visuals, textual contributions, archival materials, dialogues, and controversies.
Snowblindness is available via www.onomatopee.net for €27.
Onomatopee Eindhoven
Onomatopee Eindhoven
Publication
Snowblindness
Let’s talk about storytelling, colonialism, Netflix and my great grandfather
€ 27
Challenging the colonial narratives surrounding the Netflix film Against the Ice, this personal, editorial project by a present-day descendant opens-up to cultural and historical inclusion by broadening the storytelling.
The new Netflix film Against the Ice is based on the adventures of a Danish polar explorer, captain, and coloniser in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), who marked his agenda and achievements in books and maps that contributed to the production of ‘collective memory’ and the dominant history of Nordic colonialism.
This book is designed and edited by Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen, the great-granddaughter of this same explorer, in collaboration with designer Anna Bierler. Combining visual and textual contributions, archival material, dialogues, and controversies, Snowblindness – Let’s talk about storytelling, colonialism, Netflix and my great grandfather presents new grounds for engagement with the polar explorer’s stories, whether these are visually, orally, or textually transferred. The result is a generous and vulnerable reader, which weaves information from a multiplicity of sources, and places particular emphasis on collaboration, trust, and questioning.
Our lives resonate through storytelling. The writing and rewriting of history, family stories handed down through generations, the inclusion of plural perspectives and subsequent broadening of conversations; our identities are made by narratives colliding and shifting. In Snowblindness, colonial narratives are challenged through such storytelling, encouraging a questioning of history, ethics, and aesthetics.
- Type
- softcover
- Dimensions
- 170 x 240 mm / 6.69 x 9.44 inches (portrait)
- Pages
- 296 (estimate)
- ISBN
- 978-94-93148-79-6
- Editor
- Gudrun E. Havsteen-Mikkelsen
- Graphic
- Anna Bierler and Gudrun Havsteen-Mikkelsen
- Language
- English
- Release date
- 20220328
- Binding
- Otabind
- Paper
- 100 gr. Munken Polar Rough (inside) and Consellation Snow E07 Martelle 240 gr. (cover)
- Edition
- 1500
- Color
- 4/4 + 1 PMS metallic silver
- Printer
- Balto, Vilnius (LT)
- Font
- Kéroïne Doux Extrême, Kéroïne Intense Légère, Maratre
- Details
- SPECIAL: MILLING OF THE EDGES OF THE BOOK!
- Onomatopee project manager
- Freek Lomme
- Text editor
- Olaf Havsteen-Mikkelsen
- Proofreader
- Harriet Foyster
- Made possible by
- Stichting Jaap Hartens Fund, Stichting Stokroos, Cultuur Eindhoven and Trolle Legatet
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT AND ALL THE ROLES THESE PEOPLE EVER HAD IN ONOMATOPEE PROJECTS
- Gudrun E. Havsteen-Mikkelsen design researcher
- Anna Bierler graphic designer