academic profile

I completed my PhD in museology and with specialization in Indigenous and Sámi methodology at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo in 2021. That same year, I moved to Tampere, Finland for a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Studies within the department of Language studies at Tampere University. When my position ended, in September 2023, I returned to Norway and Oslo.

Both my doctoral and postdoctoral research fellowships were fully-funded, independently-led research projects in which I carried out creative and innovative arts-based research within the humanities.

As a long-time practitioner of duodji [Sámi practices of aesthetics and storytelling], for my doctoral research project, I combined my practice with an Indigenous research focus which looked into duodji as a Sámi system of knowledge; the devastating effect of the colonial epistemicide on the practice of duodji; how Sámi communities today work to re-remember practices within duodji and in the process negotiate Sámi identities; and lastly, how museums with their vast collections of Sámi heritage objects play into these processes. Through this work, I also initiated a non-profit organization of duodji in Oslo, Oslo Sámiid Duodji, focused on the training and development of Sámi Indigenous practices and languages.

For my postdoctoral project, my specific focus was on the relation between Indigenous aesthetics in the Arctic and land, within the overall research project ‘Mediated Arctic Geographies’, which aimed to look at how Arctic geospheres are aesthetically shaped and mediated to become vehicles of environmental, [geo]political and social concerns.

This work informed my curatorial practice, when I in 2020 was appointed as one of three curators for the Sámi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2022, and it continues to be a guideline in ,y efforts to indigenize curatorial practice.