Kalaallit Inuit Performance

Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq - A re-membering seminar

Jessie Kleemann, ”Lone wolf runner,” performance 2023. Photo by Frida Gregersen

This one-day seminar on Kalaallit Inuit Performance. Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq – A re-membering seminar brings together younger and elder Kalaallit and Inuit artists and academics to remember and present together on their terms: from the existence and banishment of Indigenous traditions during and after Danish colonial rule, over the Tuukkaq theatre in Fjaltring and festivals in the Arctic, to contemporary decolonizing performances. The purpose is to gather different practices and traditions, reflect on how they have been taken up from different sides, and how they can be remembered in decolonizing ways – in academia and beyond.

Programme

9:00

Arrival & coffee

9:30

Welcome by the organizers

10:00

CONVERSATION 1: rehearsing, remembering, schooling
A conversation between actress Makka Kleist and Vivi Sørensen, artistic director of Nunatta Isiginnaartitsinermik Ilinniarfia, on training and rehearsing Inuit traditions and beyond.

11:00

Work demonstration of Uaajeerneq, mask dance, by actress and dancer Elisabeth Heilmann Blind

11:45

Lunch

12:45

CONVERSATION 2: rooting and moving
A conversation between performance artist and author Jessie Kleemann, choreographer Sarah Aviaja Hammeken and performing artist and cand.mag. Sirí Paulsen on working artistically as a ’bastard’ in a colonial relationship.

13:45

Short break

14:00

”Balance is a Moving Target.“ A performance lecture with storytelling and poetry by Kuluk Helms, artistic PhD student, Université Paris-Saclay.

14:45

Coffee, tea, cake

15:15

CONVERSATION 3: archiving and organizing
A conversation on decolonizing strategies for remembering embodied memory and indigenous knowledge with Kuluk Helms, artistic PhD Student at Université Paris-Saclay, Elisabeth Heilmann Blind, actress and dancer, Dine Arnannguaq Fenger Lynge, daily manager in Dáiddadállu - Sámi Artist Network, and Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

16:15

Closing the day

Organizers

Sirí Paulsen, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

In collaboration with Lotte Faarup and Ditte Maria Bjerg

Supported by: Forsøgsstationen, Malmö Theatre Academy - Lund University, Centre for Modern European Studies(CEMES), the New Carlsberg Foundation research center Art as Forum at the University of Copenhagen, and the research cluster Nordic Models at Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.