Vuömien tjuajah – Voices of the Valley

A site-specific choreographic soundscape, movement and land art project to re-habilitate sámi language, thinking, understanding and perspective in a colonized landscape in Hemnes Municipality, Sami area, Norway.

A project by Ada Einmo J and Fred Endresen

PHOTOS & VIDEOS

ARTISTS


Project supported by: Sami Parliament (N) Norwegian Culture Council (Performing Arts) Norwegian Culture Council (film/sound) Norwegian Culture Council (Cultural Heritage) Organization Free Speech, and North Norwegian Bank of Savings

Producer/artistic management/development: Ada EInmo J
Composer/musician/co-director/video:
Fred Endresen
Installation makers/craftsmen: Nejla Bohman & Peter Östergren
Translations to South Sámi and language advisor: Johan Sandberg McGuinne
Photos: Arne Forbord and Ellen Rabliås

Links: Unesco Decade of Indigenous languages 2022-2032

Special Thanks:
Language givers 2022: Nejla Bohman, Torbjørn Børgefjell, Sara Annjak and her daughter

Old wax-roll recordings from Karl Tirén 1914

Mountain guides and staff for shifting/loading and replacing installations every day.

From Hemnes Turistforening, Klemetspelet, and Okstindan Natur – og Kulturpark: Frode Solbakken, Siv Bårdsen, Nils Magnus Håland, Frigg Valla, Sølvi Bente Skaga, co-ordinator Inger Lise Pettersen.

ABOUT PRODUCTION


A site-specific choreographic soundscape, movement and land art project to re-habilitate the sámi language, thinking, understanding and perspective in a colonized landscape in Hemnes Municipality, Sami area, Norway.

By placing several sound spots with specific sounds of Sami language, glacier, yoik and nature into the huge and wild landscape of Laajroedurresne/Leirskardalen.
People were invited into this sound space and landscape to move, to find, experience, listen and reflect.


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