Dáiddadállu @ RidduRiđđu festivalá 2025
This year, Dáiddadállu participates at the Riddu Riđđu festivalá 2025, and our artist partners are ready and widely represented.
(Photo: Daniel Skog / Riddu Riđđu)
In recent years, Dáiddadállu and Riddu Riđđu, as the biggest Sámi festival and Europe’s biggest Indigenous festival, have built a close relationship and collaboration around programming and representation of Sámi art. This year, as in previous years, is no exception – perhaps even stronger with the establishment of a Sámi export office and not least in this year's festival programme.
In this year's programme, we can together introduce two programme items in addition to participating in Riddu Riđđu's annual delegate programme, where they invite the field from all over the world into a fully-fledged programme.
“While we await for reconciliation” by Susanne Hætta
- Riddu Siida: July 9 th – 12, from 10 am.
- Meet the artist and Dáiddadállu for a cup of coffee and reflections around art and reconciliation; July 10 - 12, 15.00 - 15.30 pm.)
The installation While we wait for reconciliation is a reaction to Norway's truth and reconciliation process that seemingly has stopped. Reconciliation is supposed to be a process between two or more parties, but instead the fur-clad installation offers a comforting and secluded room where individuals can reflect and begin reconciling with their own pain and experiences.
Fur is the central material and gives associations to warmth, femininity, luxury and mothering, sometimes problematic when it comes to animal welfare, at the same time as hunting and reindeer husbandry being among the Sámi's primary livelihoods. Fur trading has been important for the Sámi for over a thousand years, and the use of fur and skins are essential for the existence of all Indigenous peoples in the Arctic.
Artist partner Susanne Hætta made the work for the 10th anniversary of Dáiddadállu, and is included as one of the works in connection with Dáiddadállu's project Birgejupmi Through Art, Horizon.
For Riddu Riđđu she is transforming the exterior of While we wait for reconciliation to reinforce the basic idea that you yourself also must reconcile with the experiences the state's norwegianization politics has inflicted on you.
Supported by: Dáiddadállu, The Bergesen Foundation and Samiske Kunstneres og Forfatteres Vederlagsfond.
«Reconciliation. For atonement. Here is my care: Caring. About grief. I will comfort you: Comfort me. Comfort»
"Suoidnekaboom"
- Kultursalen, Thursday July 10, 12:00 am.
How does prolonged pressure affect the complex inner landscape in relation to oneself and others? How does the inner life live in sync or out of sync with the external life, and what does this do to people, relationships and society?
In “Suoidnekaboom”, reindeer stomachs and senna grass meet with performing arts and living bodies. The work explores the physical materials in relation to the materials’ inherent potential, cultural use and context.
“Suoidnekaboom” is part of Dáiddadállus’ 10th anniversary project. Máret Ánne Sara has invited performing artists Anitta Katriina Suikkari and Anja Saiva Bongo Bjørnstad, Alexandra Wingate and Li Taiga to interact and interpret some of the physical materials and works Sara has worked with in recent years, with a particular thematic context to “Pile O’Sápmi” and the series of works for the Venice Biennale in 2022.
“Suoidnekaboom” is a work where individual artistry and different artistic disciplines, experiences and expertise meet in free play.
At Riddu you will meet our artist partners Anitta Suikkari and Anja Saiva Bongo Bjørnstad on the stage.
Read more about Dáiddadállu 10 year anniversary here.
(Photo: Fotograf Norvang)
