«Winter» in the youth imagination of the Arctic: a response to the challenges of permafrost

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the imaginary North in the artistic projections of Arctic youth with the involvement of folklore, language and traditional culture of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia. The study presents the first experience of representing the authors’ texts of young northern artists as «visual» models of imagination and visual narrative. Authors’ literary texts are considered as a source of self-presentation of indigenous peoples, a meta-description of their own culture, a kind of self-description of the inner world of experiences of the changes taking place in the world today.
Analysis of the authors’ intellectual and artistic landscapes of Arctic youth using promising methodological innovations makes it possible to reveal the worldview and perception of the changing living space of the Arctic, «sensual», «mental» perception of the Cold and everything connected with permafrost and the cold world, as well as northern identity of younger generation.