Doors: 18:30
Event start: 19:00
The event is held in English
Seated event
NOTE: The event is free but be aware that a ticket does not guarantee a seat. Due to limited capacity, please arrive early to secure your spot.
In the Sámi poem, Jearrat Biekkas/To Ask the Wind, Nils Aslak Valkeapää explains that to ask the wind is an act of curious listening. Inspired by Valkeapää, Jearrat Biekkas/To Ask the Wind encourages reflections that look into landscapes of sound, asking how art may facilitate both the labour and the politics of listening.
Engaging in the active labour of listening, this conversation suggests that the act of listening is not exclusive to auditory expressions. Founded on a Sámi understanding, listening is instead understood as receiving information from multiple mediations, including the encounters between people, meanings, and actions. In this way, ideas and beliefs that are shaped by visual registers may be included alongside sounds.
The event will close with a Sámi ceremony of cleansing performed by Arnhild Haagensen. Participation is optional and those not wanting to remain for this part of the event should leave after the conversation concludes.
Jearrat Biekkas/To Ask the Wind is conceived by Liisa-Rávná Finbog (Curator of Indigenous Art, MUNCH) in conjunction with Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s exhibition Zifzafa at MUNCH.
Emma Arnold (PhD) is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and writer originally from Montréal, Canada. She has a background in environmental studies, geography, and visual arts. She leads the Institute for Art & Environment, an independent research platform conducting projects with environmental, social, and urban themes. Her current work examines themes of extraction and extractivism in industrial and post-industrial landscapes. In 2025, she was one of the artists selected for the Velferden Winter Residency in Sokndal and the first artist participating in the new Research Residency program at PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal.
Emma Arnold
Carmel Alabbasi is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in journalism, social anthropology, and fine art; their practice blends critical research with material experimentation. Alabbasi's work explores themes of absence, disappearance, and systematic erasure, tracing how bodies, places, identity, and collective-personal memories are shaped by colonial and patriarchal violence in Palestine.
Carmel Alabbasi
Dr. Liisa-Rávná Finbog/Rámuavuol Liisa-Rávdná is a Sámi Indigenous scholar, duojár, author, and curator. Moving between Sámi aesthetics and the materiality of creative practices, she navigates the dynamics between art and politics of indigeneity in her work. She was co-curator of the first Sámi Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale and is the inaugural curator of Indigenous Art at the Munch Museum in Oslo. Since 2024, she is also on the board of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA). She is also the author of It Speaks To You – Making Kin of People, Duodji, and Stories in Sámi Museums (2023, Dio Press) and co-editor of the celebrated work, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic (2025, Wesleyan University Press). Her next book, which will be on Feminist art, is forthcoming on Thames & Hudson.
Dr. Liisa-Rávná Finbog
©Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Zifzafa, 2024, still from virtual reality audio platform. Courtesy of the artist.
