Kinobox: Margrethe Pettersen

Playing at Kinobox's new location in the foyer of Auraro Kino Fokus, films can be watched from 11:00–21:00. Anyone can access Kinobox, for free. You can enter from the front doors to the Aurora Kino, or through the library or rådhus.

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Láibmat II, Margrethe Pettersen, 2024, 25 min

The Chemnitz river once meandered freely, rocky and rich in species, before it was regulated, hidden, polluted, and harnessed to drive industry. A river full of history and stories, it is in constant motion and carries with it ancient wisdom and tales, part of a greater context and with its own ecosystem.

Four performers carry out a healing, cleansing ritual in Láibmat II. In Sami culture, time is regarded as circular, as something that comes instead of going. It doesn’t run away, but opens up possibilities. Time also plays a central role in the creation of artistic work—it is an essential part of it.

Margrethe Iren Pettersen (Tromsø 1977) is a trained florist, has a BA I from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and an MA in Art and Public Space from KHiO. Petersen's projects often find their start point in a place, plants, or other organisms, and seek to challenge the separation between culture and nature. Her Sámi roots and the storytelling traditions of the North, with its oral knowledge sharing, is something she brings into her work. Petersen is socially and environmentally engaged.

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KINOBOX screens a broad range of works and artistic approaches, selected with consideration for their material, political and aesthetic sensibilities, but central to our curation is a belief in the importance of artists moving-image to question how we consume and are consumed by our media landscape.