Elin Már Øyen Vister is a genderqueer interdisciplinary artist, composer, and defender of land and water, based on Røst in the far southwest of the traditional Sea Sámi land Lofoten/Lofuohta/Láfot. Elin Már embraces a wide range of artistic expressions and works with experimental composition, field recording, improvisation, performance, installation, language, textiles, organic material, and sensory walks.
Elin Már understands every work they create as a co-creation – including non-human actors and land–sea relations.
They practice an artistic research method that is slow-moving and site-specific, inspired by Deep Listening, intersectional, postcolonial, and ecofeminist perspectives, social justice movements, and Indigenous methodologies. They are driven by the wish to create space for a diversity of understandings of reality, narratives, and voices, while deconstructing “given” and “normative” truths.
Elin Már’s work often results in installations accompanied by social choreographies that take audiences out of the gallery space and into the landscape. Ongoing projects include Soundscape Røst and Deconstructing Norwegianness. They also co-run and program the artist residency and workshop initiative Røst AIR at Skomvær Lighthouse, and are the initiator and co-curator of Jiennagoahti/The Listening Hut in Bergen/Birgon.