Hello!
My name is Katarina, but in a lot of digital spaces, I've been Wild Water.
This site is a study, a project, a weaving of contradicting parts of myself, born in
the two places I ran away to during that long nightmare;
the forest and the web,
tracing small rivers of water and electricity.
Singing light is a coded, sitebased artwork consisting of interconnected stories as well as audio, visual and interactive elements. It was commisioned by HTML review - an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.
Singing light explores metaphysical reality from an indigenous sámi worldview.
Archival images potential for humanizing: Tromholts photographs seen from the inside and the outside.
A collaboration with historians handling the recontextualizing of portraits of sámi indigenous people in the late 1800s by Sophus Tromholt; photographs that are now part of UNESCOs Memory of the world. I collected stories from the lives of the people portrayed, retelling them for the archive.
Ovllá Biret ja Biret Biret Ánne, mother and child who traveled to Alaska to teach inuit people reindeer herding in 1894.
Sound art installation curated by Lydgalleriet. Originally commissioned by Borealis – a festival for experimental music, later exhibited at Kunsthall 3.14.
I wanted to shift the common perspective on the exhibition of sámi people in "Lappeleiren", Bergen 1897 by telling their story through generations. These people, previously anonymous bystanders in the public eye and often referred to by derogatory terms, deserve to be remembered as the humans they were - not only by the dehumanization they were subjected to. Their story is that of a family that spent their lives trying to regain their lost land and way of life.
Anna Lisa Olsdatter Bull and Maren Marie Kant
A sound art installation commisioned by Jiennagoahti - an artwork dedicated to listening. I gathered and retold four stories connecting Bergen (northern sámi: Birgon) to Sápmi through relationships - some good and some bad - between norwegians and sámi people. The stories were set to the compositional landscape of artist Sondre Närva Pettersen. From old sagas of sámi princesses and tales of sea spirits, to witch burning and human zoos; Bergen has played an important and forgotten role in sámi colonial history.
Photo: RiddoDuottarMuseat – De Samiske Samlinger
JiennagoahtiRoamššas ja boaris / Ujevn og gammel, 2022
Poetry submission in Cloudberry paradise – Open Out publication
Jiennagoahti, 2023
Mini-essay in Tidsskriftet Kunsthåndverk
Push pull matters, 2023
Art critique in Tidsskriftet Kunsthåndverk
Vuoigŋavoiŋŋa dovdá, 2024
Art critique in Tidsskriftet Kunsthåndverk
Om bruk av báhkkol/kreftkjuke i samisk tradisjon, 2025
Article in Sopp i nord, Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund