Bajándávgi / Thunderbow
Risograph print, 12 pages, edition of 150
North Sami and English
2024
We made a small batch of duo-language riso-printed pamphlets for the opening of MAĐĐI - Romsa Dáiddahálla 2024. Titled Bajándávgi (North Sami) and Thunderbow (English) it is an excerpt from the cult book Bajándávgi (2005) written by Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari. It’s a coming-of-age fiction book that follows a young Sami protagonist and her encounters with other indigenous peoples in the 1980s, political events and young love. It also contains some of the first sex scenes written within Sami literature. Mondo Books is currently working towards republishing it at full length in Norwegian towards the end of the year.
Spring Focus: Power to the Peatlands!
A risograph printing workshop that worked with defending peatlands through slogan aesthetics!
The workshop was part of “‘Down in the Bog: Hibernation’” by Karolin Tampere, an exhibition and a place for learning and sharing from peatlands around the world, arguing for the need of increased attention and care.
Through the workshop a selection of flyers, logos and images were gathered into one publication. Each participant got a copy to take home- and the remaining were offered to environmental organizations working with peatlands for use in their communication work.
Autumn Focus: Open Out
Our Autumn Focus workshop was in connection with the Open Out Festival, an an annual one-week contemporary art festival putting forward queer artists and performers aiming to make the public art scene in Tromsø more diverse, accessible and open. Their aim is to showcase high quality contemporary art within a broad queer perspective - and to put forward hidden and marginalized voices. They investigate social, political and personal realities and dreams and we believe that art has a strong power to formulate and imagine these. The 2023 theme was “Currents” and it was dedicated to environmental sustainability.
For Currents we hosted a two day riso workshop that culminated in a collaborative 4 colour zine. The interest was extraordinary and we had roughly 40 participants, with a public launch of the zine at the end of the two days.
Focal Point Art Book Fair
Image credits: Body Text
Book Launch “ Hvis vinter var et sted” (If Winter Was a Place)
Image credits:Body Text