Sami Art Festival 2008 – 2011

Book release
Hotel Polar Capital
10.09.2011
Komediebakken 9

The Sámi Art Festival 2008-2011 was organized as a series of projects held at different places in Sápmi and/or the Barents Region, during a three year period. Various perspectives connected to art and its relation to these Arctic regions, the political, economic and cultural structures, were elaborated upon and discussed in exhibitions, a workshop and seminars. Key words for their content were autonomy, trauma and market.

Artists publications: The Catalyst by Yvette Brackman, 2010, (English, Russian and Kildin Sámi), Double Act by Marysia Lewandowska, 2010, (English) and Retten til landet og vannet by Geir Tore Holm, 2010, (Norwegian); the documentation DVD The Road to Mental Decolonization, 2010, (English); publication Hotel Polar Capital, edited by Hilde Methi and Kristin Tårnesvik, 2011, (English).

www.samiartfestival.org