Ánte Mikkel Gaup & Inger Biret Gaup
Gulahallat Eatnamiin: We Speak Earth
On June 7th, starting at 18:00, you can join the interwoven outdoor programme that includes the joik work Gulahallat Eatnamiin: We Speak Earth by Ánte Mikkel Gaup & Inger Biret Gaup, the dance ritual Bones by Amanda Piña and Walking, drumming, dancing by Tone Johannessen & Mariê Mazer / Rhizome collective. The evening ends with appeals and a party!
Partly outdoors, meeting point: MDT’s upper entrance, Slupskjulsvägen 32
We 7.6.2023, 18:00-21:00, MDT
The reciting cyclical joik is sounding and voicing places, landscapes, animals, nature, people and historical shifts in the surroundings, be it in Sápmi as in the world. It operates as a unifying force, intertwining past and present as embodied forms of knowledge.
In "Gulahallat Eatnaminn: We Speak Earth" Ante Mikkel Gaup and Inger Biret Gaup perform traditional and family joiks around the landscape of Inner Finnmark, with newly composed joiks in relation to Ánte Mikkel’s encounters with the clear-cuts of Svartskog in Suttes/Boden – a consequence of the establishment of Northvolt and mining company Beowulf's claim on Gállok, which is preventing reindeer herding and is interfering on Sámi sacred grounds. In "Gulahallat Eatnaminn: We Speak Earth", we are reflecting both on the irreversible scars this leaves on nature, and on coming together with people who stand in this struggle, be it in Sápmi or Mexico.
Ánte Mikkel Gaup & Inger Biret Gaup
Ánte Mikkel Gaup and Inger Biret Gaup [Sápmi/NO] belong to the Northern Sami joik tradition from Inner Finnmark Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino, where the joik has been passed down for generations in the family. Ánte Mikkel is a prominent profile within the traditional joik, and he works actively to preserve and develop the tradition in the role of practitioner and educator. He performs newly composed as well as traditional material alone or with family members. He often combines joiking with storytelling, to convey his family history and way of life to children and adults alike. It has led him to several roles at the Sámi National Theater Beaivváš. He is also a frequently employed teacher of Sámi language and culture, among others at Sámi Allaskuvla-Sámi University.
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