Eanan

Forum Box is showing Marja Viitahuhta, Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä's video work Eana in the Media Box. In the work Eana, created without a camera, one hears a luohti joiked by Ánnámáret, whose subject is the land, the livelihood of the Sámi and the starting point of culture. The luohti combines Turkka Inkilä's electronic music with Ilkka Heinonen's jouhikko. The video work, animated by Marja Viitahuhta, was made from images of old Sámi drums that Ernst Manker photographed and his wife Lili Manker drew, from the book Die Lappische Zaubertrommel. On the one hand the work brings the original drums to light, and on the other hand it hides them in the noise of digitally drawn images. These images are combined with pictures produced by pressing onto film material and with the phytogram technique, using plant leaves, flower petals, clay and salt. The work depicts an indigenous people's relationship to the land, to their environment and to their cultural heritage, and considers what has been recorded of an indigenous people's spiritual tradition and how it has also been othered, lost, or destroyed as a result of colonisation.