Jessie Kleemann

Taava eqqiaassaanga

langue: groenlandais

Taava eqqiaassaanga

Illup ilua tamaat
Teqeqqut tamaasa
Ilisiviit tunui tamaasa
Natip naqqa iluatungaa ilanngullugu
Qalianukassaanga
Quimulluunniit
Tassani taavi
Suna tamaat salisavara
Eqqiaassaanga
Uffassaanga
Kigutikka salissavakka
Qulissaanga
Naamik nutsakka nutsussavakka
Kumaajassanga
Uffarfimmi
Anartarfimmi
Quisaqattaassaanga
Anassaanga
Suna tamaat imaarlugu
Taava
Assakka errussavakka
Oqorutit annisissavakka
Naamik
Igisavakka
Qimminut tunniutissavakka
Naasut igissavakka taava anissaanga
Illumit maanngaanniit
Kameqarnanga pisussaanga
Qaqqaliassaanga
Immamukassaanga
Qinussaanga suaartassaanga qiassaanga
Ujarlissaanga
Kiap ikiussavaanga


                                                     immaqa igitaassaanga

aallassaanga                 nikissaanga     qimaassaanga

Allanngussaanga

                          Kinaajunnaassaanga

Taava immaqa Inuusinnaanngussaanga.

© Jessie Kleemann
Production audio: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, 2012

Jessie Kleemann

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* 06.11.1959, Upernavik, Groenland
Réside à: Copenhagen, Danemark
Jessie Kleemann (born in Upernavik, Greenland in 1959) is a poet, dancer and video and performance artist. She lives and works in Copenhagen.

In her poems, the first of which appeared in her book Taallat in 1997, traditional Eskimo motifs meet the globalised present. Mystical natural images collide with real social problems, sea mothers with Brigitte Bardot, dog sleds with 4-wheel drive off-road vehicles.

In this way, Kleemann’s poetry, written in Greenlandic and Danish, brings the image world of the Eskimos up to date for the 21st Century. It searches for heritage and identity in the broken linguistic material of the post-modern, creating texts in which the beautiful and the ugly do not exclude each other.

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After training as a lithographic artist, Kleemann studied at the Tuukkaq Theater in Fjaltring, Jütland, in 1978-79, and from 1984 to 1991 she was the Director of the art school in Nuuk. In addition to her many other social and other commitments, she has established a poetry festival in Greenland and written film scripts and has her own TV show.

She has developed a ‘body art’ based on traditional masks and rituals for her provocative performances, using her own body as a living canvas, projecting at this level the art of a people who have to struggle like no other with the vagaries of life in today’s mediated landscape.
Publications

  • Kinaasunga

    (Who this who am I)

    Performance/Video

    1988-1989

  • Spirit Hosts Join the Elements

    Performance/Video

    1991-1993

  • Taallat, Digte, Poems

    greenlandic, danish, english

    Fisker & Shou, 1997

  • Poem for video

    Performance/Video

    2001-2003

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