An artist talk with Invisible Flock team member, Jessica Sim, exploring the methods and practices behind the making of Voyage – a long-term artistic and activist project responding to the decline of native Atlantic salmon and the fragile ecosystems of the Deatnu River. The presentation will include excerpts from Voyage films, tracing the ecological, cultural and political dimensions of the salmon crisis and exploring Sámi community perspectives and relationships with the river.

Voyage is a journey from the end of the world to the next one. It is about us and salmon, rivers and oceans, grief, survival, decolonisation, climate adaptation and home.

Developed by Jenni Laiti and Invisible Flock, together with Ellos Deatnu and the community of the Deatnu River system, the project takes the form of interventions, community gatherings, sculpture and audio-visual works that foreground Sámi self-determination in the face of ecological crisis and systemic exclusion from decision-making.

Bio

Jenni Laiti is a Sámi artivist, duojár and Indigenous rights activist. They create cultural interventions, installations and forms of performative direct action that confront the impacts of colonialism and environmental change while affirming Sámi rights to land and culture.

Invisible Flock are multi-award-winning artists based at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK. Working at the intersections of art, technology and ecology, they collaborate with environments and communities to form layered understandings of place.