Elina Waage Mikalsen is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Tromsø, Sápmi/Norway. She is currently based in Oslo, Norway, working across sound, video, performance, installation, and text-based media. Her core source of material is the body, in its physical, remembering, sounding, and acting capacity. She explores the female body, particularly in her sound work, where the possibilities and limitations of the female voice are examined in physical, historical, and gendered contexts. Based on this investigation, she explores the frictions and connections between the female body and the female voice, which are so often separated. Elina Waage Mikalsen’s artistic work often draws on her dual background as a Sámi and a Norwegian. The meeting between the Norwegian and Sámi heritages within her own family has become a metaphor for the power relations haunting the two facets of the Norwegian society as a whole.
This consert is a collaboration with INSOMNIA, with support from Talent Norge, Sparebanken Nord-Norge and Musikkontoret Nord through the talent program Cloud: Exit.
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