Korinna Korsström-Magga
Korinna Korsström-Magga, MA, has a long experience teaching art to pupils of all ages and in different institutions of education in the North. She has developed a special interest in participatory community art education in order to enlighten and increase understanding between different communities, through her freelance work as an art educator.
In her doctoral study for the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Lapland, Korsström-Magga is exploring the reindeer herders’ contemporary daily living, involving the reindeer herders themselves to participate in the collections of visual research data. The project reveals their daily lives and their livelihood to other stakeholders who are branching out on their ancient reindeer pastures. |
Highlights from research publications
Art-Based Knowing with Sámi Reindeer Herders: A step Towards Resilience
This substudy presents the contemporary reindeer herders’ daily lives visually from their own perspectives. Korsström-Magga’s research is conducted using Art-Based Action Research (ABAR) methodologies by utilizing the photovoice research method used in social sciences that has similarities with visual ethnography. Korsström-Magga involved five reindeer herder families in capturing photos during their daily lives. The aim of the photography was to capture describing moments of their daily life, culture and livelihood. About 1000 photos were taken by the families during one year following their daily chores. The families showed their photographs, with Korsström-Magga’s assistance, in a joint exhibition at Siida Sámi Museum in Inari with installations built using items and tools belonging to the reindeer herders’ everyday working surroundings. The photos, exhibits, and the exhibition entity embrace the silent ecocultural knowledge, referred in this chapter to the Sámi Indigenous knowledge, and the new insights of changes that the Sámi reindeer herders experience in their daily lives and want to show to the outside audience. The participatory art-based activity shares information and opens possibilities to revitalise the reindeer herders’ livelihood to a meaningful profession, also in the counterparts’ eyes. The exhibition highlights the most important issues in contemporary reindeer herders’ daily lives, where the “knowing with” the working surroundings with the reindeer has a great role. The process opens the value of co-knowing that may offer help in and for a rapidly changing world.
Korsström-Magga, K. & Jokela, T. (2022), Art-based knowing with Sámi reindeer herders: A step towards resilience. In G. Coutts & T. Jokela (Eds.), Relate North #9. InSEA publications. |
Higlights from Artistic Publications
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Selected publications
Korsström-Magga, K. (2019). Community-based art education and reindeer herder families. In T. Jokela & G. Coutts (Eds.), Relate North: Collaborative art, design and education (pp. 108-127). InSEA publications.
Korsström-Magga, K. & Jokela, T. (2022), Art-based knowing with Sámi reindeer herders: A step towards resilience. In G. Coutts & T. Jokela (Eds.), Relate North #9 (pp. 150-167). InSEA publications.
Korsström-Magga, K. & Jokela, T. (2022), Art-based knowing with Sámi reindeer herders: A step towards resilience. In G. Coutts & T. Jokela (Eds.), Relate North #9 (pp. 150-167). InSEA publications.