Know How to Know How
Sissel M. Bergh
How does knowledge survive when it has never relied on inscription? In this screening and conversation, Sámi artist Sissel M. Bergh turns toward Indigenous ways of knowing shaped by land, kinship, and spiritual continuity. Her films move gently between personal reflection and collective memory, highlighting epistemologies learned through practice rather than preserved in text.
In #Tjaetsie / knowhowknow, knowledge is carried in everyday gestures – through language, family exchange, and embodied familiarity with place. The film reflects on cultural transmission interrupted by assimilation and language loss, yet insists that what is not formally recorded is not extinguished. It persists in repetition, in relation, in the lived rhythms of landscape.
Everything is speaking. First draft on Gorrie Guanna approaches Sámi spiritual traditions with care and openness. Embracing uncertainty, Bergh allows gaps and silences to remain present, treating the film itself as an ongoing inquiry. Landscape is treated as an active participant – an animate field of memory and presence.
Across both works, knowledge appears as a way of moving attentively through a world that answers back.
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