Anarchiving Rávdnji

As part of the symposium Thinking with Peatlands, we have the pleasure of inviting you to

Anarchiving Rávdnji – a live audiovisual performance by Andreas Kühne, Polina Medvedeva and Risten Anine Gaup

Saturday 28th September, 7pm - 9pm
Doors open 7pm
Performance starts at 7.30pm and lasts for half an hour
Free Admission, no pre-registration required
Romssa Dáiddasiida / Tromsø Kunstforening, Mellomvegen 82

Anarchiving Rávdnji – a live audiovisual performance following forward traces from Rávdnjevággi / Finnheia on Sállir / Kvaløya. Artists and collaborators of the Rávdnji exhibition at The Arctic University Museum Andreas Kühne and Polina Medvedeva improvise with the audiovisual material they gathered for the exhibition and invite Risten Anine Kvernmo Gaup to add new traces in response.

The performance evokes holistic listening perspectives and reciprocal transformations through interaction. What do we experience when we move in between the Sámi siida and peatlands of Rávdnjevággi today? As we are listening with our whole body, a landscape is transforming in front of us, entangling the past, present and future and oscillating between histories and futures, memories and the subconscious.

Artist biographies
Andreas Kühne (b. 1988) is a Dutch sound artist, composer, and drummer involved in making electroacoustic music, collaborative audiovisual performances and interactive installations that focus on listening positionalities and cross-pollination between improvisation practices and the Environment. His doctoral research proposes field improvisation as a methodology for sounding material that is aimed to reflect on the relational affects between human and more-than-human beings. It explores the potential for field improvisation to aid imagining alternative futures, critical pedagogy, multispecies collaboration and theorizing in the fields of acoustic ecology, contemporary archaeology, sound art and visual art within numerous field sites across Northern Sápmi and Norway.
Andreas is a PhD fellow in electronic music and music technology at the Musikkonservatoriet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Kühne’s work has been exhibited and performed at Tromsø Museum (NO), Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Lofoten International Art Festival (NO), Sonic Acts Festival (NL), HYBRID Biennale (DE), Baltic Circle Festival (FI), Inversia Festival (RU), Lighthouse (UK).

Polina Medvedeva works within the intersection of film, installation and performance, portraying individuals or communities who exist by circumventing political prohibitions, societal stereotypes, and effects of economic crises and conflicts. Questioning linearity in storytelling, she explores formats that allow for nuance and multiplicity of narratives. Her focus on the tactics of civil disobedience and mechanisms of vernacular resilience – improvised, passed through generations as oral histories, smuggled in through migration – speaks of the (im)possibilities of existing within while being against systems of oppression.
Medvedeva has been a resident at de Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (2020-2022) and her work was exhibited at among others Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; WIELS
Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem and Bak Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht. Performances include Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall; Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki; HYBRID Biennale, Dresden; Sonic Acts festival, Amsterdam; Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær; Brighton Festival, Brighton. Medvedeva has been a guest tutor at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, KMD Bergen, ArtEZ Zwolle, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and a tutor and lecturer at the Utrecht University of the Arts. She is a member of the selection committee for the Creative Industries Fund NL and a board member of The One Minutes Foundation.

Risten Anine Gaup is a Sámi actress, cultural mediator, and musician. She has held positions as a cultural school teacher in theater and joik, and has worked on performances that combine storytelling with the dramatic art of joik. Today, she is active as a musician in several music projects and performances, including OZAS, Vástádus Eana, Det Nye Nord, Spiti, and more, while also exploring her own solo projects that involve the practice of joik. Her work often blends traditional and contemporary elements, showcasing her unique cultural heritage. In this project, you will experience her on a loop station, where she playfully navigates a space that transcends the traditional, the modern, and the experimental.