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SUMMARY:Memories in the Skolt Sámi Area of the Arctic: Notes from a Visit
 ing Artist - Tuuli Malla &amp\; Skolt Sámi Cultural Foundation
DTSTART:20190305T173000Z
DTEND:20190305T190000Z
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CONTACT:Tanvi
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on an artistic engagement with memories of h
 ome\, roots and culture in the three Skolt Sámi villages of Čeʼvetjäu
 ʼrr (Sevettijärvi)\, Keväjäuʼrr (Keväjärvi) and Njeäʼllem (Nellim
 ) in Sápmi\, northern Finland. The issues of colonisation\, land rights a
 nd representation are as relevant today as they have ever been at a time w
 hen the United Nations openly criticised the Finnish Supreme Court for dis
 respecting the autonomy of the Sámi Parliament. \n\nThe talk opens with a
  historical contextualisation of the relationship between life in the Skol
 t Sámi villages and the Finnish state. It then moves to talk through my e
 xperience of collaborative art practice as a visitor to the area. The proj
 ect I developed with local people deals with oral histories through person
 al or passed on stories and Skolt Sámi traditional music/ memory leu'dd. 
 The aim of the installation is to place recorded voices in proximity with 
 a museum setting so that different temporalities of memory are brought tog
 ether. \n\nThe process of working on the installation raised questions of 
 the conditions of remembering: How can one stay sensitive to what Helga We
 st calls research fatigue? How to work in a place where so many ethnograph
 ers\, linguists and other researchers have come before? How can one genuin
 ely collaborate and explore the issues as a visitor? What can be gained in
  terms of representing memories by placing contemporary voices in proximit
 y to a museum?
LOCATION:Boardroom\, Department of Architecture
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