WHERE AND WHERE TO? / SUMI SUMULLU? Artistic research exhibition and collaboration with Jakob Jakobsen at HospitalPrisonUniversityArchive, Sept 5th 2018 – Nov 1st 2018. During the exhibition period we initiated and produed a number of radio conversations and held several film screenings. Among others I showed my research into the filmworks by Jette Bang. Reflections on the exhibition: The exhibition ‘WHERE AND WHERE TO? / SUMI SUMULLU?’ was the eighth display at the Hospital Prison University Archive, departing from the 1973 LP album Sumut by the Greenlandic rock group Sume. The project was developed in collaboration with the visual artist Jakob Jakobsen, who invited me to present material related to the filmmaker and photographer Jette Bang, and her work in Greenland in the late 1930s. The exhibitions at Hospital Prison University Archive, always operate in dialogue with a series of radio podcasts, produced during the time of the exhibition. Together Jakob Jakobsen and I travelled to Greenland in August 2018, to produce radio about Sume and Jette Bang together with two sixth form college classes in Sisimiut. Jakob Jakobsen runs the art space Hospital Prison University Archive, and invited me to collaborate because of the experience I have working in the far north, my previous travel to Greenland and research work more general. That is, my artistic research – notably my work on the Svalbard archipelago – challenging the conventional representations of the Arctic through a cirtical approach to the anthropological methods of fieldwork and tourism. The exhibition ‘WHERE AND WHERE TO? / SUMI SUMULLU?' presented Sume's vinyl record together with it’s unfolding sleeve containing the album lyrics in Greenlandic and Danish, along with a poem that Aqqaluk Lynge titled 'Ode til Danaiderne' (Ode to the Daniads). In addition – and in dialogue – my work in the exhibition engaged with some critical aspects of Jette Bang's visual work: Jette Bang stayed in Greenland for a year and a half in 1938–39, and from her film footage the famous Greenlandic film 'Inuit' (1940/84) was created. 'Inuit' gives an insight into the ‘natural’ life of indigenous people in Greenland. A few years ago, some of Jette Bang's unused footage from Greenland turned up in the Film Archive of the National Museum in Copenhagen. They show the 1930ies early modernization: shipping, mining, postal and tele-communication, schools and education, healthcare, etc. In the exhibition I showed a digitally treated 16 mm film shot by Jette Bang from the now closed coal mine in Quillisat, along with selected stills from 'Inuit'. This juxtaposition addresses the discussion of how life in Greenland is represented in the intersection of indigenous culture and modernisation, still a recurring issue today. From Jakob Jakobsen’s childhood he remember that Greenlandic rock music was played on national radio in Denmark in the mix of mainly English and Danish-language music. It intrigued him – since then Sume’s music has been something he would like to know more about. The fact that Sumut was the first rock record to be sung on Greenlandic is already a materialisation of the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial perspective that flows through the project. Some friends made him aware of the movie ‘Sume - The Sound of a Revolution’ created by Inuk Silis Høegh and Emile Hertling Péronard in 2014, which made him even more curios. In relation to the exhibition Jakob and I thus invited these filmmakers both to show their research related to their filmwork as well as we produced a radio podcast and conversation with Emile Hertling Péronard. Other radio podcasts produced in relation to the exhibition includes conversations professor in Nordic literature and minority studies Kirsten Thisted, anthropologist Anne Mette Jørgensen and the poets and artists Nanna Anniki Nikolajsen and Aka Niviana. But it also most importantly includes conversations with 1.a and 2.z and their teacher Ida Buhl from Sisimiut GUX in Greenland. Jakob and I brought the exhibition ‘WHERE AND WHERE TO? / SUMI SUMULLU?' to Greenland in an attempt to get a Greenlandic perspective on our investigation. The Hospital Prison University Archie’s way of working with artistic research is based on a critical method where both researcher and object are at stake. In science, both researcher and object are most often fixed entities. In our research, both researcher and object are transformed in the investigation process. Our radio work with 1.a and 2.z and their teacher Ida Buhl from Sisimiut GUX was overwhelmingly educational and at times problematic with Jakob and I as radio hosts for the youngsters. After a week of radio conversations, the students thus took over the microphones and produced 3 programs where they interviewed us. All radio programs are continuously available on Hospital Prison University Archive’s radio soundcloud site.