Šuvva: En talkshow-collage

‘Šuvva: En talkshow-collage’ er tredje del av Office for Contemporary Art Norways serie av arrangementer ‘Máhcaheapmi (Responses)’.

Obs: Arrangementet finner sted i tredje etasje, inngang vendt mot Mellomvegen.

Denne éndags sammenkomsten er kuratert av kunstner Elina Waage Mikalsen og handler om lyd og lytting fra samisk og urfolksperspektiv. Den tar i bruk talkshowets åpne struktur for å samle et bredt spekter av praksiser og formater - performance, samtaler, foredrag, musikk og mat - med de inviterte gjestene Katarina Barruk, Viktor Bomstad, Geir Tore Holm, Emil Kárlsen, Suzanne Kite, Jessie Kleemann, Radio-JusSunná / Sunna Nuosuniemi, Dylan Robinson og Elin Már Øyen Vister.

Alle med interesse for lyd, lytting, musikk og eksperimentering fra et samisk perspektiv er velkomne. Det vil bli servert forfriskninger.

Program:

Introduksjon – Elina Waage Mikalsen

To perspektiver på Áillohaš – med Elin Már Øyen Vister og Geir Tore Holm

Pause

Live performance – Kite
Kite will invite improvisers to engage in an act of dream arrangement, using the Lakota Shape Kit (developed by Sadie Red Wing) as a tool for structuring their visions into a graphic score.

Dylan Robinson i samtale med Elina Waage Mikalsen (avspilling av opptak)

Pause

Live performance – Jessie Kleemann

Samtale: Praksis, lyd, ord! – med Emil Kárlsen, Kite og Jessie Kleemann

Pause med servering av rognbollesuppe (+ vegetarisk alternativ)

Hilsen fra Katarina Barruk

ASAP ~ As Slowly As Possible – DJ Radio-JusSunná
An audiovisual dj set which strives for holding space for a tomorrow where land and all living beings are not treated as endless resources.

Break

Soup of silence – Geir Tore Holm
A sonorous spoken word collage traveling from Sápmi to Mexico and back again.

Live performance – Viktor Bomstad
For Šuvva, Viktor will combine electronics, voice and guitar in an improvised set, channeling his wide-ranging musical inspirations into a singular, immersive experience.


Bidragsytere:

Viktor Bomstad (b. 1992)is a traditional joiker and experimental guitarist from the northern part of Sápmi/Norway. Until January 2025, he held the position of official regional joiker for Troms and Finnmark counties, a unique role in Norway aimed at promoting innovative joikers in the region. Viktor is passionate about exploring diverse sonic traditions and pushing the boundaries of how joik can be experienced in new contexts. He is a regular presence on the Norwegian experimental scene, performing in various constellations as both a solo artist and with different bands.

Katarina Barruk is known as one of Sábmie’s most esteemed artists. She is raised in Lusspie (Storuman) and Gajhrege (Gardfjäll). The last decade Katarina has toured through Europe, giving highly appreciated concerts and her performance at Øya festival was acclaimed as "Øyas biggest revelation" by The Line of Best Fit. She delivers a fierce, yet deeply down-to-earth, mix of pop music, traditional joik and improvisational elements.

Emil Kárlsen is a northern sámi artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentlist, studio producer and actor from Čávkkus (Northern sámi, pronounced Chao’kos), Saukkonen (kven/finnish) or Oteren (norwegian, pronounced Oo’tern). He is 27 years old, and already has 10 years on his back as the leadsinger of the poprock band Resirkulert, and for the last 6 years he’s been freelancing with his soloproject Emil Kárlsen, where his music is written in the northern sámi language, and often rooted in the sámi tradidition of juoiggan (yoi’gan, or «yoik»). For the last years he’s also been engaged as actor at the Sámi National Theatre, and has one of the leading parts in Disney’s coming TV-series «To Cook a Bear» based on the novel by Mikael Niemi.

Geir Tore Holm (b.1966 in Tromsø), an artist, grew up in the Sámi community of Olmmáivággi/Manndalen, Gáivuotna/Kåfjord. He lives and works at Øvre Ringstad Farm in Skiptvet, Østfold. Graduated from Kunstakademiet i Trondheim in 1995. With Søssa Jørgensen he established Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land in Gildeskål, Nordland in 2003. Geir Tore Holm was head of project in the founding of Kunstakademiet i Tromsø–UiT in 2007. From 2009 until his dissertation in 2017, he was a fellow in artistic research at KHiO–Oslo National Academy of the Arts with the project Poetics For Changing Aesthetics. Included in his artistic practice he is active as curator including projects as Sámi Art Festival 2002, River Deep, Mountain High, SDG–Sámi Center for Contemporary Art, 2002, ČSV–Sápmi visualized, Galleri F15, 2005, Obzidian Gaze, Riddu Riđđu Festivála 2016 and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää/Áillohaš, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2020. He is a holder of Norwegian Governments Guaranteed Income Grant and receiver of the John Savio Prize of 2015.

Kite aka Suzanne Kite (b. 1990, Sylmar, CA; lives and works in Catskill, NY) is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her artworks and performances have recently been featured at the 2024 Whitney Biennial; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York; and the 2024 Shanghai Biennial; among other venues. Her awards and honors include a Ruth Award, a 2023 United States Artist Fellowship, a Creative Time open call commission (with Alisha Wormsley), and a Creative Capital grant. She is currently Director of Wihanble S’a Lab, Distinguished Artist in Residence, and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. Kite holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, and Concordia University. She is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux tribe.

Jessie Kleemann (she/her) is a visual artist, performance artist, and poet. Born and raised by Kalaallit Iniiot in Upernavik 1959, she studied at the Grafisk Værksted, Nuuk and obtained a training as an actor at the Tuukkaq Theatre in Denmark. Recent works include the interview book Samtaler med Jessie Kleemann [Conversations with Jessie Kleemann] by Stine Lundberg Hansen (2023), the poetry collection Arkhticós Dolorôs (2021). In 2024 she had an exhibition at Den Frie, Copenhagen and took part in the exhibition Common Thread, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, 2024. She had two major solo exhibitions in 2023, Running Time at the National Gallery of Denmark, and Lá.Læ.Likkkja. Magna, at the Arthall of Roennebaeksholm Denmark. Kleemann lives and works in Copenhagen.

Radio-JusSunná / Sunna Nousuniemi is a queer Sámi and Finnish audiovisual artist, storyteller and dreamer. They were born in 1993 and raised in Anár, Sápmi. They are one of the founding members of the DJ collective Article 3 that indigenizes the dance floors with Sámi as well as global Indigenous tunes accompanied with visuals that celebrate Sámi culture and resistance. Under the name Radio-JusSunná, they have been working on an ambient dj set concept ASAP ~ As Slowly As Possible with the focus on creating shared spaces for resting and decolonial daydreaming. In the recent times their sources of inspiration have been the power of grandmothers, magical realism and underground culture. They currently study in dipmaduodji, soft traditional handicrafts, at Sámi Education Institute while dreaming of a world where the land and all beings are not treated as endless resources.

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah First Nation) writer and artist whose work seeks to prioritise Indigenous resurgence. As an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, his scholarship examines public art’s role in the interpellation of settler subjectivity and Indigenous resurgence. His book, Hungry Listening (2020), asks how writing might otherwise express Indigenous epistemology and critical listening positionality.

Elin Már Øyen Vister is a genderqueer interdisciplinary artist, composer, and land/water defender, based on Røst in the far south-west of Lofoten/Lofuohta/Láfot, traditional Sea Sami lands. Elin Már’s artistic practice spans a broad spectrum, encompassing experimental composition, field recordings, improvisation, performance, installation, poetry, and sculpture made from organic materials. With a deep connection to their Sámi heritage, they weave together the stories of the land and water through language, textiles, and sensory experiences.

Elina Waage Mikalsen (b.1992) is a Sámi-Norwegian interdisciplinary artist and musician from Romssa/Tromsø, Sápmi. She works with sound, text, textile, performance and installation. She often mixes field recordings, voice, electronics and home-built instruments to create sonic spaces that exist somewhere between reality and fantasy. She has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally in places like Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, MUNCH, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Nuuk Art Museum, Cultural Centre Caisa, The National Museum in Norway, Lofoten International Arts Festival and Singapore Biennale.