Claiming Space Norway/Sápmi: Bodø

Mohamed Mohamed and Kátjá Rávdná

You have started singing again / Don leat álgán lávlut fas

You have started singing again/ Don leat álgán lávlut fas in Bodø Spektrum is a collision between the artists Kátjá Rávdná and Mohamed Mohamed. In that meeting, feelings, experiences and philosophy of life have been transformed into performance art, through conversations about an underlying understanding of each other’s differences. With universal experiences such as death and sleep, the performance seeks a state to scare away the pain.

Performánsa Don leat álgán lávlut fas/You have started singing again Bodø Spektrumas lea dáiddáriid Kátjá Rávdná ja Mohamed Mohamed gávnnadeapmi. Háleštemiid bokte man vuođđu lea sudno erohusaid vuđolaš áddejupmi, leat dovddut, vásáhusat ja eallinfilosofiija šaddan performánsadáiddan. Universála vásáhusaid nu mo jápmima ja oađđima bokte, lea performánsa ohcamin dili mii erethuššá eallinbakčaga.

The performance is presented together with Bodø Biennalen 2024.

Mohamed Mohamed is a performance and video artist with a BA from the Art Academy in Oslo. Momo works with identity and existential questions, the physical experience and its psychic limitations. They were part of the exhibition project ‘Ta Plass’ in January 2022 at Fotogalleriet, curated by Bassel Anis Hatoum on behalf of Skeiv Verden.

Kátjá Rávdná is a Northern Sámi artist and activist from Deatnu (Tana) and Olmmáivággi (Manndalen). She currently lives in Oslove (Oslo). Kátjá Rávdná finds her strength in her Sámi people, and works to create Sámi art for the Sámi. With a background in Sámi theatre, Kátjá Rávdná develops her expression via various performing arts fields. Sámi storytelling permeates the work, where she invites the audience to explore the complicated layers of Sámi history and culture, and see how central they are in today’s society.