2024 Researcher in residence: Julie Edel Hardenberg
In Fall 2024, Julie Edel Hardenberg visited the Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation Lab as a short-term researcher. From September 15th to December 15th, Julie researched Indigenous art practices in Canada and meaningfully connected, collaborated and exchanged knowledge with Indigenous peoples here at the University of Victoria, the province, and across the country. While in Canada, Julie Edel Hardenberg spoke on a panel at the Qinnirajaattuq / Ripples: Making Waves in Inuit Art symposium in Montreal QC and co-hosted a discussion in the Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab about Comparative Arctic Colonialisms.
Julie Edel Hardenberg also called Paneeraq, is an Inuk - Kalaaleq, visual artist and a researcher, born and raised in Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland. She studied art in Finland, Norway, and England before gaining her MA in Art Theory and Communication at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Copenhagen where she has acquired the Novo Nordisk Foundation - Mads Øvlisen PhD scholarship in her practice-based artistic research: "Between power and powerlessness - the de/colonized mind " -that examens the embodied experiences and how colonialism has not only transformed the history of geographical places, but also the bodies that inhabit the places today.
She is affiliated to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and University of Copenhagen in addition she studies to become a psychotherapist. For the past 30 years, she has worked with identity and post- decolonial perspectives as an overall theme. Being multilingual and with roots in Inuit and Nordic cultures, she has an insight into different Inuit - Kalaallit identities and self-understanding. At the same time, her work explores the economic and social interdependencies between Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland and their impact on Inuit - Kalaallit, caught in a shared identity between power and powerlessness.