Artist talk: Jenni Laiti and Invisible Flock

An artist talk with Invisible Flock team member, Jessica Sim, exploring the methods and practices behind the making of Voyage – a long-term artistic and activist project responding to the decline of native Atlantic salmon and the fragile ecosystems of the Deatnu River. The presentation will include excerpts from Voyage films, tracing the ecological, cultural and political dimensions of the salmon crisis and exploring Sámi community perspectives and relationships with the river.

Voyage is a journey from the end of the world to the next one. It is about us and salmon, rivers and oceans, grief, survival, decolonisation, climate adaptation and home.

Developed by Jenni Laiti and Invisible Flock, together with Ellos Deatnu and the community of the Deatnu River system, the project takes the form of interventions, community gatherings, sculpture and audio-visual works that foreground Sámi self-determination in the face of ecological crisis and systemic exclusion from decision-making.