What might it mean to ‘dig where you stand’?

In this presentation, Director Maria Lind will discuss the concept of "digging where you stand," inspired by the eponymous 1978 book by writer Sven Lindquist about citizen research. Throughout this presentation, she will interweave the local, regional, national, and international. Aiming to be "the generous edge," the museum works with complex and sophisticated art in generous ways, while being art-centric and embracing multiple forms of mediation and collaboration. The museum's programming follows three loose thematic lines: The Critical Zone, Hand, Heart, and Brain, and Women in the North. At the core of this programming are Sámi artists and duojarat, or craftspeople. Lind will also discuss how the museum's collection is growing through acquisitions connected to its program.

Afterwards, there will be a conversation between​​​​​​​ Lind and director, Antonia Alampi, where they will explore questions about the emerging roles of collecting practices, the relationships that can be encouraged between artworks and the communities that inspired or produced them, and the role of the collection as an archive for an institution's program.