Deep Reading with Sápmi - Archives of Invisibility: indigenous ways of knowing with Liisa-Rávná Finbog
We warmly invite you to participate in Deep Reading with Sápmi, an online seminar series hosted by Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) in preparation for SAAR 2025. The Summer Academy will take place in Kiruna (Northern Sámi: Giron; Finnish: Kiiruna; Meänkieli: Kieruna), Sápmi in collaboration with KIN Museum of Contemporary Art/Maria Lind. The four online sessions offer an opportunity to engage with Sámi perspectives on knowledge, place, and artistic practice before we gather in August.
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The seminar series have been conceived in collaboration with Gunvor Guttorm, artist and Professor in duodji. Through the seminars Kiruna will be introduced from a Sámi perspective by inviting Sámi artists and thinkers to share their insights. These sessions will be valuable both as part of the Ways of Knowing (in Artistic Research) doctoral course at SKH and as stand-alone preparatory discussions for SAAR 2025 participants. In addition to the SAAR doctoral students and supervisors, all SKH doctoral students are invited to join.
Archives of Invisibility: indigenous ways of knowing with Liisa-Rávná Finbog
5 June 2025, 13:00–15:00 CET
Liisa-Rávná Finbog is a Sámi Indigenous scholar, duojár, and curator from Oslo, Vaapste, and Skánit in the Norwegian part of Sápmi. She is currently based in Tampere, on the Finnish side of Sápmi, where she is doing post-doc research in connection with “Mediated Arctic Geographies,” a project that aims to look at how Arctic geospheres are aesthetically shaped and mediated to become vehicles of environmental, [geo]political, and social concerns at Tampere University. Her specific focus is on the relationship between Indigenous aesthetics in the Arctic and the land. Her written works include contributions to collective works such as Research Journeys In/To Multiple Ways of Knowing (2019), articles in Nordic Museology (2015), and in the digital platform Action Stories (2021); essays in multiple exhibition catalogues (2022, 2023); as well as several upcoming works, including her first book, It Speaks to You—Making Kin Through People, Stories, and Duodji in Sámi Museums (2023).