NorwaySápmi Yoik Ánde Somby Yoiks of Arctic Animals

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This video presents Ánde Somby performing a series of yoiks which evoke four of the animals that inhabit the Sámi indigenous lands in the Arctic regions of Europe. Somby’s performance draws from his larger project entitled “The animals inside the man and the man outside the animals”, which explores the idea of transformation through yoik performances and the blurred boundaries between animals and humans in the pre-Christian Sámi religion. • The first animal presented by Ánde Somby is the ptarmigan bird (Lagopus lagopus), which is defined by the yoiker as a model of resilience because of the changes in plumage color patterns from winter to summer. The second animal is the crow (Corvus cornix) sitting in the night of the city’s pubs. When this bird discovers a drop of wisdom it will sing it out ending up misrepresenting it. The third yoiked animal is the mosquito, that through its little sting lets every other being know they are alive and which task is to guarantee the continuance of life. Finally, Ánde yoiks the bear (Ursus arctos), the strongest animal which only yields to its own need to sleep. In this sense, to yoik the bear reminds us that sleep and sleepiness are the strongest forces and no one is strong enough to overcome them. • Among the indigenous Sámi people inhabiting the coast, the tundra and vast boreal forests of the European Arctic, the yoik is an ancestral vocal practice through which they commemorate people, evoke places, animals and other elements of the natural landscape. The yoik has various functions that are articulated on a social, cosmological and ecological level. A yoik, for instance, may be a gift made by the creator of the song to the subject it evokes, while in indigenous rituality the yoik has relevant shamanic implications related to the sound metamorphosis between human and non-human. At the same time, according to Sámi cosmology, the yoik is not a practice expressed exclusively by Man: the Sámi also hear the yoik in the voices of rivers and birds, the wind and the mountains of the Sápmi, the ancestral territory of the Sámi that stretches across the Arctic regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia (Kola Peninsula). • The performance, curated by Nicola Renzi, was organized by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in collaboration with “The Sami Pavillion” project at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, commissioned by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) • Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, October 20, 2022 • More info on this event: https://www.cini.it/en/events/sami-mu... • Video: Nicola Renzi, Daniele Zappatore, and Lorenzo Chiarofonte • http://www.cini.it • http://www.cini.it/fondazione/istitut...

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