Electric Lies
A mobilisation moving through art and activism, unsettling the language of the ‘green shift’ where promises of sustainability conceal quieter violences, and where progress is written over the displacement of Indigenous worlds.
The project moved across different locations, unfolding through multiple processes, public interventions, performances, workshops, panel discussions, films, and archival inquiry. What you see here is an overview, a fragment of what took place, and a trace of what is still in motion.
This map traces encounters rather than representing land and boundaries. Each node would take you to a frament of what took place.
Greenland
Munich, 2026
Britta Marakatt-Labba at Karaseundo
Electric Lies: Broken Ground, 2024
Ida Helene Benonisen
Ida Helene Benonisen
Skibotn, Norway
Ida Helene Benonisen
Links to references
BäLäKä,Leipzig, 2025
Berlin 2023
Electric Lies, 2021
Munich 2026
Greenland
This video draws on archival materials and fieldwork conducted during the 2024 visit to Saprmi to highlight Stadtwerke München, Berner Energiegesellschaft, Energy Infrastructure Partners (Zurich), Aquila Capital (Hamburg), Nordic Wind Power DA and Aneo- involved in the destruction of nature.
Defending Sapmi - Electric Lies - "Green" colonialism in Northern Europe
This video m a Group Against ''Green'' Colonialism In Sápmi, @ March 2025We screened the film by Liou, made during our fieldwork in Sápmi, to mobilize communities and participated in the “Balakake: Meeting of Peasant & Rural Struggles” festival, held from September 1–7, 2025, in North Saxony, Germany.
Electric Lies:Broken Ground
Building on the earlier residency in Saari, Finland, the project expanded, moving through Sweden and Norway to conduct fieldwork, research, and investigations into changes in Karasjok and surrounding areas. The journey culminated in an exchange in Skibotn, near Tromsø, fostering dialogue and shared reflections across the region."
The group ended their one month journey together through Sapmi at Nord-Troms Museum in Skibotn, Norway.
https://ntrm.no/aktuelt/electric-liesbroekn-ground-med-ulv-ugle/
Saari Residency, Myanamaki
In 2024, the Electric Lies group reunited at the Saari Residency in Maynamiki, joined together with participants from Norway and Sweden . Building on the earlier residency in Saari, Finland, the project expanded, moving through Sweden and Norway to conduct fieldwork, research, and investigations into changes in Karasjok and surrounding areas. The journey culminated in an exchange in Skibotn, near Tromsø, fostering dialogue and shared reflections across the region."
In 2023, Electric Lies took shape as a residency, bringing together artists from Sápmi, Greenland, and Latin America to explore the displacement of Indigenous communities in the nmae of green energy protechtion.
The project unfolded in Berlin as a one-week residency, featuring public interventions in Brandenburg and Tor to raise awareness.
It included workshops, screenings, and panel discussions, and the full programme is available to view at
At the start, they demonstrated in Berlin in solidarity with their Sami compatriots who were demonstrating in Oslo against the wind turbines on their reindeer pastures. Two years ago, on October 11, Norway's Supreme Court declared the wind turbines in Fosen, which violate the rights of the Sami, illegal. The artists have also joined forces to draw attention to the involvement of German and European companies in wind power projects in Sápmi.
Camilla Therese Karlsen, Elisabeth Heilmann Blind, Lars Henrik Blind, Marika Renhuvud, Liv Aira, Luis Bogado and Asta Mitkijá Balto in Berlin October (2023).
Article 27 of the United Nations requires the establishment and implementation of procedures that recognize and protect the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands and resources.
Violations of this affect every indigenous community worldwide!
In 2021, Electric Lies began as a response by Camilla, in dialogue with Madhumita Nandi, during the conceptualisiong of Listening to the Land initiatve at Oyoun.
In October 11 2021, the Supreme Court of Norway stated in their decision that Norway violated the rights of the Sámi people by permitting the construction of the gigantic wind farm in Fovsen Njaarke, the Storheia wind farm and the Roan wind farm.
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