Gitt Nathalie Vivi Vold
Job description
Vivi Vold is an Inuk researcher from Kalaallit Nunaat, part of the EU Horizon project BIRGEJUPMI at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and a PhD fellow at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland. She is a recipient of the Emma Goldman Award at the IWM – Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (2026).
Her research concerns Inuit knowledge, memory and silence, and land and seascapes as living archives.
Grounded in Indigenous research ethics, she works across disciplines through community relationships, embodied methods, art and film.
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Publications outside Cristin
Exhibition
- Qamani Nipaatsumi Naapitta – Let's Meet Inside in Silence. Nuutoqaq – Nuuk Local Museum, 2025.
Keynote and talks
- Silami Nipaatsumi Naapitta – Let's Meet Outside in Silence. Keynote, Arctic Science Summit Week 2026, Aarhus University.
- Ånd – et Inuit-perspektiv (Spirit – an Inuit perspective). Bloom – Festival for Nature and Science, Copenhagen, 2026.
- How do we come to know what we know? Reflections on experiences from doing PhD research in Kalaallit Nunaat (with Anna Jensine Arntzen and Martin Svingen Refseth). UrbTrans symposium, Tromsø, 2025.
Panels
- Inuusa! – Art, culture and mental health in Kalaallit Nunaat. Arctic Arts Summit, Umeå, 2026.
- Power, Protocols and Indigenous Collaboration. Arctic Arts Summit, Umeå, 2026.
- Oprindelig grønlandsk viden (Indigenous Greenlandic knowledge), with Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann. Bloom – Festival for Nature and Science, Copenhagen, 2026.
- Cryolite colonialism and Indigenous narrative sovereignty – panel after the screening of "Orsugiak – The White Gold of Greenland". Suialaa Arts Festival, Nuuk, 2025.
Report
- Is Kalaallit Nunaat for Its People? Inuit Reflections on American (and Danish) Colonization (with Kunuk Inutiq). Yellowhead Institute, 2026.
Teaching
- Collectives of knowledge creation: recasting academic practices – PhD course lecture day (with Naja Dyrendom Graugaard and Paarnaq Rosing Jakobsen). Girjegumpi, Nuuk, 2025.
Research interests
Award-winning Inuk researcher, recipient of the Emma Goldman Award at the IWM – Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2026.
My research begins from Inuit knowledge and from land and seascapes as living archives in Kalaallit Nunaat. I work with memory, silence and relational wellbeing, and with how knowledge can be created on Inuit terms. My work brings together Indigenous research ethics, embodied and place-based methods, artistic practice and public engagement.
Research areas:
- Inuit knowledge and cosmology
- Land and seascapes as living archives
- Indigenous methodologies and relational research ethics
- Decolonization and self-determination in Kalaallit Nunaat
- Art, culture and mental health
- Multimodal research: exhibition, sound, photography and virtual reality
Selected work:
- Qamani Nipaatsumi Naapitta – Let's Meet Inside in Silence (exhibition, Nuutoqaq – Nuuk Local Museum, 2025)
- Silami Nipaatsumi Naapitta – Let's Meet Outside in Silence (keynote, Arctic Science Summit Week 2026)
- Is Kalaallit Nunaat for Its People? Inuit Reflections on American (and Danish) Colonization (with Kunuk Inutiq, Yellowhead Institute, 2026)
- Ilisimasat – New Kalaallit Research (anthology, Baggrund, 2025)
Talks, panels, exhibitions and teaching are listed under the Publications tab, in the category "Other".