Weaving the Spirit of Indigenous Feminism

Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat/Spirit Land is a transdisciplinary practice-based artistic research project around Sámi cosmology and the act of giving voice to indigenous reclamation of sacred spaces. The Sámi are the indigenous people of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat/Spirit Land is a hybrid fusion between textile art, music, poetry and theology, aiming at taking part in the decolonizing processes of indigenous people’s lands and cultures in Scandinavia. Practice-based artistic research is characterized by the fact that the research process proceeds by and through the act of artistic making. The artistic process is the core, and research methodologies and theoretical perspectives are built around it, functioning as a supporting framework. Reflective writing is used as means to get access to transpersonal depths of the creative process. Reflections upon different aspects of the artwork are developed and, simultaneously, on how it can be a seen as a vehicle for indigenous voices in order to be heard in sacred spaces of our time. Vuoiŋŋalaš Eanadat/Spirit Land is an artistic performance that functions as a ceremonial act of giving voice, a liberation from the silence of the colonized past.