https://elinmar.com/
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 embraces a wide range of artistic expression and works with experimental composition, field recordings, improvisation, performance, installation, language/place names/linguistics, poetry/text, textiles, sculptures of organic material and so-called sensory walks. Øyen Vister practices an artistic research method that is slow-moving and site-specific, and which is inspired by Deep Listening, intersectional, post-colonial, and eco-feminist elements, social justice movements and indigenous methods. Creating space for a diversity of understandings of reality, narratives and voices is Elin Már's driving force, together with deconstructing "given" and "normative" truths. Ideally, Øyen Vister's installations are accompanied by one/several social choreographies that take the audience physically “out of the gallery space and” into the landscape, the work they have co-created belongs to - and relates to. Øyen Vister's ongoing major artistic research projects include "Soundscape Røst (2010-)" and “Deconstructing Norwegianness". They also co-operate and program the artist in residency program and joint workshop Røst AIR at Skomvær Fyrstasion and Røstlandet (2012-).
https://katarinalisa.com/
is an educated choreographer, dancer, and teacher who through artworks conveys the relationship between poetry, art, and nature. She lives in Nesodden, a half-island outside Oslo, but frequently she finds her “home” in the very north of Norway/Sápmi, in Varjjat / Varanger in the Sami area of Finnmark. Here she makes relational inquiries with the land and to her Sea Sami family heritage that she carries through her father’s roots.
In her recent project ‘Gift of Stone’, she explored what ‘ good relations ‘ means to and with landscapes and intangible cultural heritages, seen from an indigenous worldview. She aims to broaden perspectives and knowledge about Sea Sami culture by investigating what a Sea Sami artistic language could be today.