The Artistic Research project Post Nomadic Landscapes, funded by the Swedish Reseach Council, was placed at the Swedish Centre of Architecture and Design 2013-17, Stockholm. The project investigates collisions in attachment patterns towards land and landscapes in the area of southern Lapland, Sweden, in Post Colonial Feminist perspectives.
The project is centered around a ski trip from the prehistoric Sami Central place Långön, near the little village Järvnäset where I live today. The trip ends some 80 kilometers North- East, in the former Sami lands of Åsele lappmark, where my Forest Sami ancestors lived for hundreds of years.
The project is characterized by practice-based artistic research, researching by making, not theorizing. The project ended up in a travelling exhibition shown at Vilhelmina Art Museum, Dorotea Art Association, Lycksele Art Association and The Graphic Society in Stockholm. Accompanying this, I made a book.
Post Nomadic Landscapes, accompanied by a monumental installation. The textile sculptures Viste/Dwelling, represent a collision between traditional Sámi architechture and aestethics from the 1970:ies. 180 x 90x 90 cm each. The structures are sewn on bodies of steel, in the materials birch bark, linen, crocheted hemp yarn, steel and wood.
The wooden, three dimensional map, has the title Wuaddi, that meens a flat even land in Umesami, the language of my ancestors. Wuaddi (Stöttingsland in Swedish) was the land of my family for many generations; Erik Persson Almark among others. He is also the ancestor of Elsa Laula (1877-1931), the first Sami activist. I am proud to be one of her descendants.
