Stranding the Car

Being present in the community has taken many shapes for me over the course of my multiple field visits. In Gjoa Haven such presence has often taken shape around material intra-dynamics between an old truck, the elements and the multiple project-related requirements that had me drive across town for multiple purposes. My first introduction to how the material agencies of such intra-active elements created both possibilities and limitations in terms of community interaction patterns, was when the truck got stranded on the beach and flooded by the rising tide of the ocean. The collective efforts required to pull the truck out of the ocean is what co-Pi de Groot terms his “vulnerability narrative”: a performative display of the intra-dependent relationship he understands his relationship with the community at large to be comprised of.

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