Samoota Globe
Exhibitions
Samoota Mini-Festival
Samoota Mini-Festival / A gathering for listening, conversing and reading, bringing together the different strands of the Samoota project under one roof for an evening. Held in solidarity with Native Americans on the United States 250th Independence Day.
Programme: Sápmi Sound Exploration, Talking Circle, Samoota Library, Q&A with Sámi and Indigenous rights lawyer Rebecka Ekberg, Samoota: EN2SE.
In collaboration with Outhouse Gallery.
Exhibited at Outhouse Gallery, Brunswick Park, London, 4 July 2026.
Samoota: In the Shadow of Three Suns
In the Shadow of Three Suns / An audio-visual exhibition that peeked into the day of a character from the world of Samoota, exploring the feelings of living in a utopia whilst not fitting in and questioning why, from dawn to dusk. Accompanied by a 30 minute soundtrack and live visuals.
Audio: Seven songs, 30 min, produced, written & mixed by Petter. Additional vocals by Petters nephews. Mastered by In-Soo.
Visuals: Live performed LED strips 7m · Sky 7×7m · Cube 1.8×1.8m · Knitted character 50×70cm · 350 hand drawn animation cels · Pine wood, organic cotton, recycled paper & LEDs · 12-page catalogue printed with rice ink on recycled paper.
Production assistance & curatorial texts by Tattianna Haslam
Afterparty DJ's: In-Soo, Sweeep & Thirty3
Exhibited at Indra Gallery, Hackney Wick, London, 15 Feb 2025
Samoota: FR1SE
FR1SE / A landart piece, an archeological find of Samoota, where these particular Samootians reside in the grass during day time to harness solar energy, which they then use at night to emit light in order to guide those lost in the dark back to safety.
It attracted local wildlife, and to this day it still has a microcosm of frogs, grasshoppers and a smaller ant colony.
Size: 7×7 metres · Materials: Grass, dirt, clay and solar powered LEDs
Co-producer & co-realisation: Mathilde Rougier
Exhibited at Ensemble Sommant, France, 14–21 July 2024
Samoota: Cymbiosis
Samoota: Cymbiosis / A tactile instrument from the world of Samoota that only sounds when two people who love each other touch it together.
Neither touch alone is enough, the creature stays silent until both hands meet its skin at once, and again until the two players find each other's grip. A study in interdependence, built for a species that cannot make its sound alone.
Materials: Faux fur, sculpted silicone body, embedded touch sensors, hidden speaker & microcontroller.
Size: approx. 1.2×0.6m.Exhibited at the David Graeber Institute × Cambridge University LEAP Lab event, 2026.
Samoota: EN1SE
Samoota: EN1SE / A continuation of the Samoota land art piece FR1SE, in which these solar-powered light creatures were first found harnessing sunlight by day to emit light by night. Here the creatures form a ring for quiet sitting, offering a pause from the pressure to produce, conclude or consume, in a space guided by Sámi worldviews, accompanied by ambient field recordings from the Ume Sámi region of Sápmi.
Size: modular, ring formation, variable · Materials: Sculpted resin, solar cells, embedded LEDs, wood.
Part of Fault Lines, University of the Arts London's Earth Week 2026 programme.
Exhibited at London College of Communication, London, 18-23 April 2026.
Samoota: Sounds Workshop
Sounds Workshop / An interactive workshop exploring the creation of soundscapes and musical compositions inspired by the world of Samoota. Participants learn to create ambient sounds, experimental music, and audio-visual experiences.
Content
• Introduction to Samoota's sonic universe
• Sound design techniques and tools
• Creating ambient soundscapes
• Experimental music composition
• Audio-visual synchronization
• Collaborative sound creation
Materials provided
• Digital audio workstations
• Sample libraries and sound banks
• Visual projection equipment
• Collaborative recording tools
Duration: 3–4 hours · Group Size: 8–15 participants
Suitable for: Musicians, sound artists, and creative enthusiasts
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About Samoota
Samoota is a long-term creative framework guided by the worldviews of the Sámi people, the Indigenous people of north Europe.
Samoota's projects range from art installations, workshops and digital tools whilst all sharing a commitment to altruism and are designed to be modular, reusable and non-commercial. Samoota is thus a growing space where Indigenous understandings of the world are met with care, creativity and curiosity.
Samoota is created by the multidisciplinary artist Petter Scholander. As a Swede and an assimilated Sámi, his practice has shifted over the years from the music industry towards the questions he carries from his own Sámi family history and the escalating issues facing the Sámi people today.
