In March 2025, the seminar on Kalaallit Inuit Performance. Isumasioqatigiinneq eqqaasitsisoq – A re-membering seminar brought together younger and elder Kalaallit and Inuit artists and academics to remember and present together on their terms: from the existence and banishment of Indigenous traditions during and after Danish colonial rule, over the Tuukkaq theatre in Fjaltring and festivals in the Arctic, to contemporary decolonizing performances. The purpose was to gather different practices and traditions, reflect on how they have been taken up from different sides, and how they can be remembered in decolonizing ways – in academia and beyond.

The tree podcast episodes document the conversations, storytelling, and performances from the seminar.

EPISODE 1: rehearsing, remembering, schooling

A conversation between actress Makka Kleist and Vivi Sørensen, artistic director of Nunatta Isiginnaartitsinermik Ilinniarfia, on training and rehearsing Inuit traditions and beyond.

EPISODE 2: rooting and moving

A conversation between performance artist and author Jessie Kleemann, choreographer Sarah Aviaja Hammeken and performing artist and cand.mag. Sirí Paulsen on working artistically as a ’bastard’ in a colonial relationship.

EPISODE 3: archiving and organizing

A conversation on decolonizing strategies for remembering embodied memory and indigenous knowledge with Kuluk Helms, artistic PhD Student at Université Paris-Saclay, Elisabeth Heilmann Blind, actress and dancer, Dine Arnannguaq Fenger Lynge, daily manager in Dáiddadállu – Sámi Artist Network, and Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.