WINDTURBINES
IN REINDEER GRAZING LAND
«I cannot breath» our freedom icon Elsa Laula gagged and silenced whilst colonizers supported by the Norwegian state build wind turbines in her reindeer-grazing land.
PEOPLE TREE
Installation
“PEOPLE TREE” by Ada Einmo Jürgensen in residence with Art Oxygen, Mumbai 2019. A storytelling and mapping project with the indigenous/adivasi village Kambachapada
GÏELEJEANOEN BALKA
The path of the language river
In Norway, the Sami language was forbidden to be spoken in public from 1880-1959. The Sami children were sent to boarding schools to become «good Norwegians» – to forget their language – the Sami song «joik» was forbidden in schools and churches. Today the south Sami language is on the Unesco red list of languages to be lost.
GAAJE ECHO
Installation: Echo
A project initiated by “Riddu Riddu – indigenous festival” and the Norwegian Ombud of gender and race equality. (Likestillingsombudet) to question how we sámi people behave and characterizes between ourselves, how we define ourselves, and range our fellow sami and their status according to knowledge of language, culture, loss of language and other cultural attributes lost through the Norwegianization processes.. How we take on the majority descriptions of us.
WHO’S THE OTHER
Performance India
The project discusses the phenomena of “Othering” – who is the Other – who has the right to define – the right to self-identification, the right the self-determination, and the clan’s inner justice of how you should identify yourself to be correct in the clan’s eyes.
EPHERMAL ARTS CONNECTION
«Ephemeral Arts Connection». Senja, North Norway 2013
MORNI HILLS
“Morni Hills Healing Art Space”. Haryana, India 2017
ART OXYGEN
“ArtOxygen” Mumbai, India 2019
SCHOOL PROJECTS
2020: November/December Hattfjelldal, North-Norway
2020: March India – Jaipur Junior High
2019: Rana, Nordland: “Raanen Vuodna”