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"Queering the Trapper's Rusk", presented by Silje Gaupseth (The Polar Museum - UiT)
“Queering The Polar Museum” is an ongoing research and exhibition project at The Arctic University Museum of Norway. Equipped with a broad notion of queerness and inspired by Sara Ahmed’s phenomenology, museum director and Associate Professor Silje Gaupseth explores the potential of a seemingly mundane museum object at the Polar Museum (UiT) – an overwintering trapper’s rusk – in narrating from the queer margins of national and local polar history. The aim of the project is to challenge the normative museum space (and thus polar history narration more generally), and simultaneously to examine whether the museum’s characteristic materialities enable or hinder queer such readings of the past.
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The project “Queering the Polar Museum” is led by Marit Anne Hauan and Silje Gaupseth, both researchers in polar cultural sciences. Some of the results will be presented in an exhibition at The Polar Museum in October 2022, during the national Queer Culture Year: https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/aktuelt/2021/celebration-of-queer-culture-year/
Organizer
The research group "Collecting Norden", UiO:Norden