Voices Carried by the Sea

Voices Carried by the Sea (2025) is an audio intervention curated by G/HOSTING (Nina Cramer and Mai Takawira) at the Danish Maritime Museum in the permanent exhibition Seafarer. We commissioned five authors write new texts responding to objects in the exhibition. The texts are critical and poetic rewritings of Denmark's history as a maritime colonial power. The authors use fiction as a tool to explore experiences and perspectives that otherwise go untold in the exhibition. 

The project features the following texts:

VI [WE] by Mikas Lang

Jeg er peberen [I Am Pepper] by Sabitha Söderholm

Tran er trannet Jessie Kleemann

Run Away [Bortløben] by Tiphanie Yanique 

At fortælle fremmede [Forms of Foreigners] by Jesper Wung-Sung. 

The contributions are available in Danish, English, and Kalaallisut. 

Sound design: Siri Paulsen

Kalaallisut translation: Naja Paulsen

Danish/English translation: René Lauritsen