These appeals are presented after an outdoor programme you can read about here. Free admission, please book in advance.
We 7.6.2023, 20:00-20:30, MDT
Memory of a place, Marit Shirin Carolasdotter & Linnéa Sundling
The Living, Regan McEnroe / Fältbiologerna
Testimony from Gállok, Tor Lennart Tourda
Through three different formats of appeals by important voices, the central question of our time: environmental justice, is addressed.
Memory of a place, Marit Shirin Carolasdotter & Linnéa Sundling
Become immersed with the land guided by Marit Shirin Carolasdotter & Linnéa Sundling in their embodied practice of Memory of a place. Do you sense the place, feel its memories, all that it has been and still is? We have never been separated from the land. Through time we submerge ourselves with the land. What memories does it hold? How do they transpire within us?
The Living, Regan McEnroe
A defence of mountains, their wilderness of mountains, the world over.
Testimony from Gállok, Tor Lennart Tourda
Tor Tuordas gives testimony on the consequences of the nation state's extractionist politics on nature, people in Jåhkågasska region and beyond, and urges us to mobilize to protect the mountains.
Marit Shirin Carolasdotter is a choreographer, dancer and founder of the network-organisation Humans & Soil. Her roots are in Kurdistan, Iraq and Frostviken/Hotagen in Sápmi. Her artistry is based upon merging writing together with various dance practices that derives from her embodied experiences of indigeneity. She is constantly exploring, experimenting and challenging the view on the Indigenous body and her in-between identity, seeking her own rituals with dance and choreographic practice.
Linnéa Sundling is a dancer originally from Umeå and with her Sámi roots from Västerbotten, Sápmi. She is also one of the initiators of the project Weaving Stories/Mojhtesh Gurredh together with Marit Shirin Carolasdotter. Her artistic practice involves dance as a transformative embodiment - each initiation of movement varies depending on her surroundings; energies, people and connection to spaces and land.
Regan McEnroe is engaged in questions concerning indigenous rights, environmental justice and stopping shortsighted exploitation of nature. She is a board member of Fältbiologerna’s national board.
Tor Lennart Tourda is a photographer and activist. His works explore entangled bonds between humans and nature, often through notions of beauty as it potentially makes humans more humble for nature, and even feel more obligated to take care of it. He is based in the Kvikkjokk area and has a strong belonging to the land, the mountains and the forest. Tor administrates Gruvfritt Jokkmokk, and since 2013 he has organised activist actions to protect Gállok and its surrounding, from the short minded ambition of Beowulf Inc. to establish an iron mine in the area.