Rhythm makes form. The tidal rhythms create time for rest and movements. Between the 10th and 17th of June, 2022, we will follow the flows and ebbs of the tide at the shores of Slettnes in Sápmi. We will study the rhythms of the tide and the forms they create through sensing, recording, measuring, storytelling and ritualizing.

Pulled by the moon the tidal wave (ca. 12 hrs 25 min) is the prime driving force behind the tidal rhythms. Tuning into the tide is to attune our clock oriented bodies with the rhythms of the moon on the Arctic polar day. A rescaling of the tidal pull to the tidal pool offers an opportunity to observe and think through sensorial, spatial and semiotic entanglements.

This workshop will be conducted as a shared exploration with introductions, responses and individual research time. To be able to recognize the different forces and voices in the tide, as a starting point, we will identify and name them.

Participants

Marte Aas is a photographer and film maker. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. The different subjects of interst visualizes in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives. https://marteaas.com/

Marielle van Dop is photographer who lived for a year in Slettnes Lighthouse in 2014-2015, to photograph and write. After that year, she decided to move permanentlyfron the Netherlands to Norway and make a new life in the village near Slettnesfyr: Gamvik. In the Netherlands she taught, among other things, nature-awareness for more than 15 years. It is the primal nature in the very north that attracts van Dop and during long walks together with her dog Laila, she seaks to connect and communicate as well as take photos and and write about her experiances with her surroundings.

Miriam Jakob is a choreographer, performer and artist researcher based in Berlin. With a background in social anthropology her works question the relationship of individual and collective patterns. Between 2020-2021 she worked on „Breathing With“, an artistic research project in collaboration with Jana Unmüßig. In this artistic collaboration they investigated the multiple relations between human and more-than-human actants with and through breath, posing questions such as how can sensory perception and imagination influence each other and how can polyphonic rhythms be perceived as integral component, also in regard of ecological thinking? In her work, Jakob is interested in the question of living together and imagining possible other ways through listening and storytelling, like in my works “Mit/Teilen” (2019) and “The Broken Promise” (2020). To shift perspectives and generate differently structured modes of knowing (corporal, theoretical, practical) and combine them is way for me to approach knowledge production in a non hierarchical way and a necessary fiction. https://miriamjakob.com

Peeter Laurits (born in 1962) has studied in Tartu and Leningrad State Universities, Estonian Humanitarian Institute and New York International Centre of Photography. His main means of expression are photography and digital manipulations. First he was engaged with mediacritical approach, but soon turned to deep ecology, moved into woods and combined the neolithic methods with post-industiral ones, both in his art and lifestyle. Now the focus of his work is posthumanist ethics. He has enriched the tools for photographic expression and broadened the role of the photograph in the Estonian cultural space. Made one-man shows in London, Berlin, Moscow and Chiang Mai, his work has been bought by museums, public and private collections and his monumental pieces have been assigned to public space. In 2017 he was invited a visiting professor for liberal arts at Tartu University and since 2020 is curating an interdisciplinary art and science forum Biotoopia. https://www.peeterlaurits.com/

Ina Otzko is a photographer, visual and sound artist based in Northern Norway and Italy. She hold a dual Master’s from the Image and Communication (2004) and Fine Art (2007) programs at Goldsmiths College in London and an additional Master’s degree in experimental Sound Studies (2012) from Berlin University of Arts, UdK. She explores time, space and consciousness. Her work revolves around communication and connections, the invisible and visible, familiar and unfamiliar, longing and belonging. https://www.inaotzko.net/

Margrethe Iren Pettersen (NO/Sapmi) is a florist, has a BA from the Academy of Contemporary art in Tromsø and a MFA from the Art and Public Space program from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She often works interdiciplinary and across media such as sound, sculpture, installation, photography and drawing. In her practice, she work site specific by investigating the ecosystems and their complexities. By drawing attention to the characteristics and coexis- ting life of plants and organisms of different places, she aims to challenge the modern perception that divides culture and nature. Her Sami roots and the oral tradition of knowledge production in the north, sensing with landscapes and geocoreography are themes she brings into her praxis. https://margrethepettersen.com/

Torgeir Vassvik Mitt musikalske prosjekter danner utgangspunktet for grenseoverskridende, eksperimenter, moderne improvisasjon. Mine faglige ambisjoner er å representere en kontinuitet av den kystsamiske musikktradisjonen og vise en tydelig langsiktig linje med nyanser og variasjoner, utvikle den animistiske joiken, vokal kunsten, den opprinnelige samiske musikken. Jeg har siden 1995 etablert et eget uttrykk som best kan beskrives som progressiv joik som skiller seg noe fra standardisert samtids joik, men jeg benytter kjente parametere fra denne som rytmikk og stemme klang og har en forståelse for hva joik dypest sett er og har vært. Jeg har lyttet til lydopptak fra voks ruller som ble gjort fra 1906 til 1916 av Karl Tiren, dette er en dokumentarisk skatt, et vindu inn i vår fortid. Disse opptakene har jeg støttet meg til i arbeidet med egne komposisjoner. I en god del av dette materialet ser jeg en likhet med hva jeg i dag hører i musikk og stemmebruk i Sibir og fra Aino folket i Japan og på Sakalin halvøya i Russland, dette inspirerer. Kombinasjonen av dette gamle materialet og uttrykket fra disse andre sirkumpolare folkenes musikk og stemmebruk er en vektig kilde til dette jeg våger å kalle progressiv joik. Joiken er utgangspunktet og drivkraften i alle mine komposisjoner. Joik er mitt gull, mitt hjerte, mitt uttrykk. Siden 1998 har mitt virke som musiker i all hovedsak bestått av å spille konserter i klubb- og festival sammenheng. Jeg har 3 CD utgivelser: 2006, 2009 og 2019 De siste 8 årene har jeg også vært en del av 12 scenekunst produksjoner der jeg har komponert musikken, og oftest også framført denne på scenen i forestillingene. Forestillingene som har blitt produsert i Norge, Tyskland, Latvia, Korea, England og 2020 i Sverige. Jeg har spilt og turnert i mer enn 25 land til svært gode mottakelser og hadde i 2018 20 års jubileum som internasjonal artist. Og har de siste syv årene vært en del av mer enn 300 skolesekk opptredener for entusiastiske barn og unge.

Izabela Żółcińska (b.1975) is a polish-born artist living in Norway. She holds an MA in Visual Arts Painting and an MA in Arts Education and Promotion both from Fine Art Academy in Poznań, Poland. Through her practice Żółcińska seeks to understand human physicality as a liquid structure that is connected to the wider ecosystem. She is inspired by an aesthetic and function of biological transportation network systems, and often works with the phenomena of fluid migration. Informed by research and cross-disciplinary collaborations, she explores anatomy, architecture, cognitive science, fluid mechanics and hydrobiology. She employs a variety of mediums and works both with studio-based practice and projects in public space - where her works transform the micro into macro scale. The Capillary System cycle (inspired by the human blood circulation system) is her long term explored visual language expressed in different media and realisations.

Organisers & navigators: Sakib Saboor (Fotogalleriet), Signe Lidén, Arjen Mulder and Hilde Methi.

Where? Slettnes Lighthouse in Gamvik Municipality at The Nordkinn Peninsula, the northernmost tip of Norwegian mainland.

When? Between the 10th and 17th of June, 2022, in the period around the full moon on the 14th of June, which leads up to the Summer Solstice.

Contact Information: Hilde Methi, hmethi@gmail.com