ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the specifics of landscape visualization of the Arctic geo-cultural space in the context of the processes of decolonization and post-exoticism on the example of North-Eastern Chukotka. External visual imagination of the Arctic is usually tied to the winter season, when ice and snow, low temperatures and darkness create a kind of existential atmosphere that contributes to the formation of the basic ontological model of the West-centric imagination of the Arctic regions. Within the framework of the presented visual dispositives, the phenomena of post-exoticism and internal exoticism are formed, making it impossible to return to pre-colonial “landscape optics”. In turn, landscape assemblages are active representatives of the decolonization of the basic geo-cultures of this Arctic region. Powerful landscape symbols of destruction and oblivion include the presence of numerous visual evidence of partial preservation of Soviet landscape, such as the buildings, the constructions and the monuments.
