Stories of the Blue Night
Sámi, P’urhepecha and Ayuujk Art and Culture Forum
“Stories of the Blue Night. Sámi, P’urhepecha and Ayuujk Art and Culture Forum” will be held, dedicated to the thought, activism and artistic production of the Sámi people.
Through talks, panel discussions and video showings, Sámi artists, curators, cultural managers and thinkers will detail the resistance practices they have employed in recent decades to secure the recognition of their history as an Indigenous people, as well as their corresponding territorial sovereignty.
This forum will also analyze the way that artistic, museographic and cultural practices have been key to this struggle and to ways of configuring possible decolonization processes. With the participation of artists such as Máret Ánne Sara, Elina Waage Mikalsen, Dine Arnannguaq Fenger Lynge, Geir Tore Holm and Tomas Colbengtson, as well as researcher Eva Maria Fjellheim, activist Petra Laiti, and cultural organisers Sajje Solbakk and Anne May Olli, we will explore critical pathways toward rethinking our conceptions of the autonomy, sovereignty and production of Indigenous peoples in the context of contemporary art.
These interventions will be complemented with the local experiences of figures such as the Ayuujk linguist Yásnaya E. Aguilar, the P’urhepecha artists of Colectivo Cherani and the experts in Indigenous law Érika Bárcenas and Orlando Aragón.
April 30, 10:00 - 18:00 h
Auditorium MUAC
PROGRAMM
Prior registration / Limited space
“Practices of Sovereignty” is an encounter organized by the MUAC in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) that will emphasize points of convergence while revealing particularities of the practices of sovereignty of Indigenous nations: both the experiences of P’urhepecha and Ayuujk artists, linguists and activists in the Mexican context and the experiences of the Sámi nation, the Indigenous peoples of the Fennoscandia region, which consists of territories found in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia.
Following the private “Practices of Sovereignty” encounter, the public forum “Stories of the Blue Night. Sámi, P’urhepecha and Ayuujk Art and Culture Forum” will be held.
Graphics inspired by a postcard by Mittet & Co., National Library of Norway (creative commons). Ládjogahpir (Sámi women’s headwear) inspired by the work of Elle Valkeapää, photographed by Outi Pieski.
Practices of Sovereignty. Art and Resistance in the Sámi and P'urehpecha Nations’ is a public programme consisting of a residency and public conference curated by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) and Colectivo Cherani, with advice from Sámiráđđi / The Saami Council.
