Welcome to a Free weekend Seminar starting Friday 20/9-2019 at 19:00!
The seminar A Greater Miracle of Perception: The Kárášjohka Iteration is the third unfoldment in a series of public events developed by The Miracle Workers Collective for the Land Pavilion (Pavilion of Finland) at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The Iteration continues our conversations concerning practices of rematriation of Sámi belongings, collective healing, and intangible diasporic archives at their intersection with contemporary art.
The event is part of a three-day gathering organised in collaboration with Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš/ Sámi Center for Contemporary Art. It is kindly supported by Sámediggi / the Sami Parliament, the Goethe Institut Finland and Norway, the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute, and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway – OCA.
The Kárášjohka Iteration is developed by members of the Collective; Maryan Abdulkarim, Giovanna Esposito Yussif, Outi Pieski, Martta Tuomaala, and Suvi West, as well as invited collaborations by Eeva-Kristiina Harlin, Niillas Holmberg, Biret Elle Láilá/Laila Somby Sandvik, Jenni Laiti and Sunna Nousuniemi.
The project A Greater Miracle of Perception presented at the Finnish Pavilion for the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
It is free to participate! Sami and English will be spoken at the seminar, with simultaneous translation.
The Seminar ends Sunday 22/9-2019 at 15:00
Participate? Sign up on e-mail: post@samidaiddaguovddas.no
Full program will be send to all who registrates before 20/9. If you want Norwegian or Sami program to be send – please let us know when sign up.
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PROGRAM
“A Greater Miracle of Perception: The Kárášjohka Iteration” By Miracle Workers Collective.
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FRIDAY 19:00 – 21:00
“Rájácummá – Kiss from the Border” Opening of Exhibition/Installation. Environmental community Art Work by Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski
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“Válddis, veahkaválddis, ráhkesmeahttunvuođas ja ráhkesvuođas – Of power and violence; lovelessness and love” By Ellen Berit Dalbakk, Helena Partapuoli, Ina-Theres Sparrok, Jannie Staffansson, Jenni Laiti, June Gerd Annmette Johnsen, Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Merethe Kuhmunen, Siri Broch Johansen and Sunna Nousuniemi
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21:30 Dj Sunna Máret at Kjells kafé, Kárášjohka
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SATURDAY 10:00 – 19:00
Morning program: 10:00 – 13:00
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Welcoming words by Kristoffer Dolmen, director of Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš/Sami Center for Contemporary Art
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Introduction to A Greater Miracle of Perception by Giovanna Esposito Yussif, curator/ The Miracle Workers Collective
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Lecture by Eeva-Kristiina Harlin and Outi Pieski: Máttáráhkku ládjogahpir – Foremothers horn hat as a rematriation project. The presentation focuses on the work investigating the ládjogahpir, a horn hat worn by Sámi women until the end of the 18th century
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Conversation Buoridit bargguid bokte – Collective healing by collective actions, with Jenni Laiti, Biret Elle Láilá and Niillas Holmberg. Artists discussing Rájácummá environmental community Art Work and process. How can community art empower communities, strengthen local self-government, and heal our connections to the our waterway?
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Screening of Pauliina Feodoroffs film documentarMiltä sopu näyttää and presentation of the project.
Pauliina Feodoroff is a Skolt Saami film director, theater director, writer and advocate. Feodoroff considers her work as a gathering and melting process of different ways of knowing, collaborating with the carriers of Traditional knowledge, ecological knowledge and art’s ways of knowing. She has served as president of Saami Council and currently is head of the working group on accessibility within arts and culture, set up by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland
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.13:00 – 15:00 Lunch for seminar participants served by Sámi Dáiddaguovddaš
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Afternoon program: 15:00 – 19:00
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Lecture-performance by Suvi West
Suvi West is a Saami documentary director, TV and media worker. The majority of her work addresses Saami culture, society and identity. As a storyteller she likes to think of herself as a maid of Gieddegašgálgu, an ancient Saami spirit and keeper of all the knowledge in the world. At the moment, West is interested in decolonizing ways of storytelling and in studying Sámi ways of sharing knowledge.
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Film screening of Miracle Workers Collective: The Killing of Čáhcerávga, followed by a conversation with Maryan Abdulkarim, Martta Tuomaala, and Suvi West.
The Killing of Čáhcerávga (2019) – their collective film work – is a collision of five different shorts that tell a disjointed, communal narrative employing call-and-response strategy to express a politicised dialogue around indigeneity, movement and migration in contemporary Europe.
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Re-tracing roots, summoning the voices and utterances of past generations by Maryan Abdulkarim, Sunna Nousuniemi and Martta Tuomaala.
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20:00 (21:00 Finnish time) Dinner at Scandic Hotel Karasjok (not covered)
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SUNDAY 10:30 – 15:00
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10:30 Show up at Sámi Dáiddaguovddáš/Sami Center for Contemporary Art for drive to Ássebákti.
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11:00 – 13:00 Visit to Ássebákti.
Easy walk in an interesting outdoor area / forest with both art and ancient historical sites and archeological finds. Lead by Kristoffer Dolmen, director SDG.
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14:00 – 15:00 Visit to Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (The Sámi Museum in Karasjok). Presentation of the exhibition: “Anastasia Mozolevskaia (1935-2015) Skilful Hands / DuojárisGieđat”. Exhibition about the life and work of a renowned Kildin Sami handicrafts practitioner and enthusiast in the revitalization of handicrafts traditions on Russian side of Sápmi, Anastasia Mozolevskaia.
15:30 – 16:30 Open Door at the Ládjogahpir Workshop led by Eeva-Kristiina Harlin and Outi Pieski. Located at Karasjok Art School
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