Yvette Brackman is a sculptor, filmmaker and writer, born in New York. Her recent projects include Common Knowledge, an ongoing project based in the Kola peninsula of Russia, Technically Sweet and an exhibition based on an unrealized Michelangelo Antonioni screenplay from 1976. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. www.yvettebrackman.info

Boel Christensen-Scheel is an Associate Professor in Aesthetics and Art
Didactics at Oslo University College. Christensen-Scheel holds a Ph.D. in
contemporary art and performance theory, and her field of interest mainly
concerns art’s relational capacities from bodily experience, epistemology
and didactics, to more explicit political and ecological projects. She has
translated Nicolas Bourriaud ‘Relational Aesthetics’ to Norwegian (Pax
Forlag, Artes, 2007), and more recently she has published an essay about
Kjartan Slettemark’s Nixon Series (Torpedo Press, 2010).

Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot are an artist-duo based in Paris. They have
been working together since 2001, and are aiming at developing a resolutely
polymorphic work turned towards experimentation. Their practice takes its
starting point in research on sound, text, and drawing, combining various
visual material and communicative approaches in their fictionalizations.

Geir Tore Holm lives and works in Oslo, Gildeskål and Tromsø. He has been interested in social relations and power structures, often related to his Sámi background; first discussing individual identity, connecting to a larger cosmos, then addressing difficulties in ethnic representations. From 2003 developing the long-term dialogue and ecology project Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land with his partner Søssa Jørgensen in collaboration with Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Rirkrit Tiravanija from Thailand. In 2006 he was engaged as Project Manager for developing the Tromsø Academy Of Fine Art, where he used to be a Visiting Professor. He is now a Research Fellow at the Oslo National Academy for the Arts.

Thomas Kintel is a freelance culture analyzer and art mediator, based in
Bergen. Holding an MA degree in Cultural Studies, he has been writing and
lecturing on issues concerning the Sámi art world. He is interested in borders
surrounding and defining artistic activity, and in social and cultural
delimitations within different communicative spaces.

Britt Kramvig is a Norwegian social anthropologist and filmmaker of Sámi origin, currently living and working in Tromsø and Oslo. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Planning and Community Studies at the University of Tromsø. Her interests include music, lyrics, films, postcolonial, phenomenological, and feminist studies. Among her latest publications are Encounters: Conflicts of Values in Sámi-Norwegian Everyday Life (Oslo University Press) and The Silent Language of Ethnicity, (European Journal for Cultural Studies). Kramvig’s latest film productions include Firekeepers (dir. Rossella Regazzi) as well as co-producing Suddenly Sami (dir. Ellen Lundby).

Hilde Methi, Kirkenes, Norway, works as an independent curator and culture worker. She is interested in economic and geopolitical issues while engaging into local, cross-border situations through various collaborative projects, often of extended duration involving certain groups of people. She worked at different art institutions since 1993. From 2002 to 2007, she was the director of the art and culture production company Pikene på Broen (Girls on the Bridge) in Kirkenes. Methi is responsible for the Sami Art Festival 2008-2011.

Kristin Tårnesvik is an artist based in Bergen. Her focus of research has
developed from questioning ethnicity, geographic and national belonging
in the North, to investigate political ideology and hegemonic structures.
Focus in particular is upon the reciprocity between destruction and revolution,
vision and utopia, and acts of the individual within a political system.
She works with video, installation and photography. Tårnesvik is also a cofunder
of the artist-run space Knipsu in Bergen.