Speculation workshop about the forgotten Forest Sami heritage

The aim is to develop a format for discussing erased collective memories among Forest Sami people within the workshop team, with a few selected stake holders and various audiences.

What speculative artistic strategies may be applied and what affect can be expected today and in the future?The workshop will consist of developing and building the “anti-colonial exhibition laboratory”, a physical structure that functions as a seating furniture, an exhibition scenography and the narrative framework at once.

It is designed to be versatile and practical while also providing the speculative framework: it is the imagined Áhkánålggie mountain, a construction informed by the mythology of the Forest Sami Noaidi Rijkuo-Maja (1661-1757) and the stories about her worship of this place.

The workshop format allows for the structure to take form in parallell with the questions it will later be a framework for.

The project team:Trine Hansen is a young Sami architect interested in combining artistic approaches, natural elements and Sami traditions to building.Susanne Ewerlöf is a PhD student in Artistic Research at HDK Valand (Gothenburg University) whose project revolves around erased memories in the Forest Sami and other colonial contexts.This workshop will develop methodologies to talk about subjects that are almost impossible to pronounce among Forest Sami and contribute to a wider discussion around colonization and erasure of collective memories.