Hvordan møtes kunnskap, aktivisme og kunst i Sápmi og Nord-Norge? Forsker og kulturarbeider Eva Maria Fjellheim leder en samtale med festivalartistene Risten Anine Gaup, Elin Már Øyen Vister og Tale Ness. Sammen vil de løfte kamper som brenner i Sápmi i dag, og utforske hvordan vi kan møte dem gjennom ulike kunstneriske praksiser og språk. 

Panelist:
Risten Anine Gaup
Tale Næss
Elin Már Øyen Vister

Moderator:
Eva Maria Fjellheim

Risten Anine Gaup is a Sámi activist, duojár, cultural educator, artist, and musician from Guovdageaidnu/Gratangen. Raised within a vibrant joik tradition, she has performed joik, theatre, and storytelling since childhood. As a cultural educator, Gaup works actively to preserve and strengthen Sámi language, culture, and traditions. She has taught theatre and joik to Sámi children and youth and led workshops in Sámi language and joik for both children and adults. Alongside this, she is an active performing artist and musician in a number of Sámi music projects and stage productions. Gaup is deeply engaged in Sámi Indigenous rights and environmental issues, both personally.

Tale Næss is a playwright and dramaturg with a PhD in stage text from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Næss has a particular interest in interdisciplinary work and collaborates in several cross-disciplinary constellations. She has published a number of books, including drama, poetry, and prose. She runs the performing arts production company NOOR Produksjoner together with Trond Peter Stamsø Munch.

Elin Már Øyen Vister is a genderqueer interdisciplinary artist, composer, and defender of land and water, based on Røst in the far southwest of the traditional Sea Sámi land Lofoten/Lofuohta/Láfot. Elin Már embraces a wide range of artistic expressions and works with experimental composition, field recording, improvisation, performance, installation, language, textiles, organic material, and sensory walks. Elin Már understands every work they create as a co-creation – including non-human actors and land–sea relations.

Eva Maria Fjellheim is a Southern Sámi researcher, speaker, and cultural worker who focuses on decolonizing the ways knowledge is created and shared at the crossroads of academia, activism, and art. In 2024, she earned her PhD at the Centre for Sámi Studies (UiT) with the dissertation Resisting unfinished colonial business in Southern Saami reindeer herding landscapes: Struggles over knowledges, worldviews and values, in which she examined wind energy development as a form of green colonialism.