takkuuk earthsonic
Extending the museum’s cultural programme beyond our walls through partnership, we’re proud to present TAKUUK with Belfast International Arts Festival at Studio Ulster.
Experience this at Studio Ulster, hailed as the world’s most advanced virtual production facility.
Immersive Cinematography
TAKKUUK, meaning 'look closely' in Inuktitut, is an artistic collaboration about what it means to hold onto language, land and identity in a rapidly changing world.
Studio Ulster, 9 Gullivers Drive.
Runtime is 1hr 10min
Contains strobing sequences.
Set to a BICEP soundtrack
Breathtaking infrared cinematography and a hypnotic Bicep score pull audiences into the Arctic, where Indigenous artists reckon with culture, colonialism and a rapidly changing world.
TAKKUUK was co-created with seven Indigenous collaborators across Greenland and Sápmi as part of the EarthSonic initiative. Specially built infrared cameras transform familiar Arctic landscapes into something strange and otherworldly, while the featured artists open up about what it means to hold onto language, land and identity when so much conspires against continuity.
Through sound, storytelling and performance, they show how culture endures under external pressure, including accelerating climate change. The result is a genuinely collaborative work that sits somewhere between documentary realism and artistic abstraction, giving Indigenous voices and knowledge systems the space to speak on their own terms.
Captures the seismic shifts Arctic communities have experienced and the resulting erosion of ancient cultures, languages, traditions and more
DJ Mag
For a big group like BICEP to do a project like this, it normalises collaboration with Indigenous artists and puts us on a professional level where we are not so exoticised, and I think that’s a good thing – a really good thing – for the whole community.
Niilas
