Saturday 9th of November 2024, 1.30 for 2.pm.
Várdobáiki Sami Centre
Skånlandsveien 78, 9440 Evenskjer, Norway.
The performance lasts an hour, followed by light food and then artist presentations and talk at 3.45.pm.
A bus departs 12:50 from outside Harstad Kino – departing from Várdobáiki 5pm.
If you arrive by car please park behind the venue.
The performance and buss journey is free, but a ticket must be collected for each the performance and the bus journey.
Our Time is Now is the commissioned work for AMIFF 2024 facilitated by Várdobáiki sámi guovddaš / Várdobáiki Sami center and Márkomannu culture and music festival. Curated by Kjetil Berge.
An audiovisual installation and live performance with Dubmorphology, Risten Anine Gaup, Runa Bergsmo and Rámavuol Elle Bigge / Ellen Berit Dalbakk In the Várdobáiki Arena, film, sound and images are digitally interpreted in real time and mixed in a performance that blurs the distinction between the digital and the physical.
Dubmorphology explores objects, data, materiality and the formation of social and cultural identity. This summer Dubmorphology had an artist residency at Várdobáiki Sami Center. Our Time is Now is the amplified residual echo of the meeting with Várdobáiki and Márkomannu informed by the artists applying the theory, principles and practice of dub that have emerged from the African diaspora.
Artist biographies:
Dubmorphology
Comprised of artists Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison, Dubmorphology is a London based research, production and performance project which produces experimental sound and visual installations, examining the relationship between culture and technology. The work created emerges from the artists’ direct response to specific sites and environments and incorporates historical and contemporary material exploring social and political issues. Dubmorphology has projects internationally at festivals and art venues and have recently collaborated with artist John Akomfrah at the large scale installation at the British pavilion for the 2024 Venice Biennale.
“Through experimental approaches to sound art, live cinema and installations, Dubmorphology blurs the boundaries between the sonic, visual and performative. Its practice is distinguished by its ongoing investigation into the unique spaces emerging in museums, art galleries and public spaces formed by the shifting intersections between audiences, authorship and participation." — Michael McMillan.
Risten Anine Gaup is from Guovdageaidnu and Gratangen in south Troms and is a Sami cultural communicator, musician and actor. From an early age, she has performed with joik, theater and other cultural communication. She has, among other things, worked as a cultural school teacher in theater and joik for Sami children and young people, has had shows with storytelling and dramatization for joik and is currently active as a performing artist/musician in various music projects and performances (OZAS, Vástádus eana, Det nye nord, Spiti ++). while also exploring her own solo projects that involve the practice of joik.
This year, she was featured as the lead actress in the Sami blockbuster Eallogierdu - Guardians of the Tundra. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, and had its cinema premiere in Norway in February. She was nominated for Amanda for Best Actress for her role in the film.
Runa Bergsmo is a trained classical cellist, with education from Oslo and Maastricht. She has worked as a regional musician in Northern Norway for just over 30 years and is employed by Scene Nord in Troms County Municipality. In this job, she gets the opportunity to collaborate with various musicians and artists, switch between several genres and develop her personal strengths.
In the last 15 years, composing, singing, writing song lyrics and screenplays have taken up more and more of her time. Playing the cello and singing in combination has become her trademark, both alone and with various partners. She has released three critically acclaimed albums for children (Released 2017, 2020, and 2023).
In 2021, she received the Teskjekjerring prize for her work with children's concerts and album releases. In 2022 she was commissioned to write the soundtrack for the landscape film NORTH for Galleri Eva Harr (Released 2022).
Rámavuol Elle Bigge / Ellen Berit Dalbakk is a duojár, practitioner of Sami craft knowledge, based in the home village of Rámavuollie in Dielddanuorri Tjeldsund and Giron Kiruna on the Swedish side. She has duodjie training from Sámij åhpådusguovdásj in Jåhkåmåhkke Jokkmokk and has also learned a lot of her duodjie through the collective in Stuornjárgga sámiid duodjie, of which her mother is also a part. Elle Bigge works with dipmaduodjie, soft materials. She is particularly keen to see duodjie as a collective tradition, as well as an obvious part of the contemporary world.