The Sámi Art Festival 2008-2011 was organized as a series of projects held at different places in Sápmi and/or the Barents Region, during a three year period. Various perspectives connected to art and its relation to these Arctic regions, the political, economic and cultural structures, were elaborated upon and discussed in exhibitions, a workshop and seminars. Key words for their content were autonomy, trauma and market.

This website functions as an archive of the Sámi Art Festival 2008-2011, introducing the various projects and including documentation material from each, as press-releases, reports, manuscripts from talks and publications, images, and audiovisual material.

The Sámi Art Festival is initiated by Sámi Dáiddacehpiid Searvi (The Sami Artists’ Union). The festival was conceived by Hilde Methi in collaboration with Geir Tore Holm, Kuratorisk Aktion (Frederikke Hansen and Tone O Nielsen), Åsa Sonjasdotter, Morten Torgersrud and Kristin Tårnesvik. About thirty artists, curators and theorists were part of the festival.

Audiovisual and printed material issued by the Sámi Art Festival 2008-2011 are distributed by contacting us; artists publications: The Catalyst by Yvette Brackman, 2010, (English, Russian and Kildin Sámi), Double Act by Marysia Lewandowska, 2010, (English) and Retten til landet og vannet by Geir Tore Holm, 2010, (Norwegian); the documentation DVD The Road to Mental Decolonization, 2010, (English); publication Hotel Polar Capital, edited by Hilde Methi and Kristin Tårnesvik, 2011, (English).