In the late afternoon at 16:00, Epos sails to Salhus once again, where a programme unfolds from 17:00 to 20:00, starting with an offering to the sea and performance by Elin Már Øyen Vister with Morten Norbye Halvorsen (analogue tape machine loops), Knut Jonas Sellevold (electronics), Alexander Aga Røynstrand (Hardanger fiddle), Katarina Dorothea Isaksen (voice), and Trine Samuelsen Hansen (voice). The programme continues with a talk by Izz Aljabari, readings by Layli Long Soldier and Gunhild Øyehaug, and a presentation of The New New Norwegian – a collaborative project with the literary journal Vinduet — including a reading by Priya Bains. When the boat moves back to Bergen, Elin Már Øyen Vister continues with a DJ set on board.


Vinduet is a Norwegian literary journal known for championing and publishing new and often unconventional literature, as well as essays, criticism, and literary reflections. Founded in 1947, the journal has played a key role in shaping literary and cultural discourse in Norway ever since. Previously appearing as a quarterly journal, from 2021 Vinduet has existed as a digital-only open-access publication. Under the editorship of Priya Bains since 2024, Vinduet continues to explore new intersections between literature, politics, film, and contemporary culture, with a particular focus on experimental and underrepresented voices.

Elin Már Øyen Vister [HJ1] (b. 1976, Oslo) is an artist, composer, and land/water defender living in the Røst archipelago, in the south westernmost part of Lofoten/Lofuohta islands in the north of Norway/Sábme. Their research-based practice is careful, curious, and site-specific, and is inspired by Deep Listening, Indigenous and postcolonial methodologies, and intersectional ecofeminist and grassroot resistance movements around the world. Working across a wide range of artistic practices including experimental composition, field recordings, collective social processes, and sensory walks, and media such as installation, performance, poetry, and text, Øyen Vister is occupied with the complex entanglements and relations of all living beings and land/water bodies, past, present, and future. They founded Røst AiR, a residency at Skomvær Lighthouse, and Røst in 2012, which they have co-run ever since. They have been listening to, recording, and learning from the seabird mountains and the beings of Røst since 2010.

Morten Norbye Halvorsen (b. 1980, Stavanger) is an artist and composer, whose sound works and musical performances are guided by props, websites, photographs, scripted recordings and concert appearances in an ongoing exploration of collaboration and sound.
Trine Samuelsen Hansen (b. 1992, Skiervá/Skjervøy) is a Norwegian–Sea Sámi architect and musician. She began joiking in her twenties and has found her own joik voice – an expression that springs from a personal and cultural rediscovery. She is interested in how Norwegianization has affected generations of Sea Sámi and uses both music and architecture to explore and convey identity, belonging and landscape.

Katarina Dorothea Isaksen (b. 1995, Sážžá/Senja) is an artist, writer, mediator, politician and activist residing in Birgon/Bergen. In addition to volunteering for the local Sámi community as a board member of the Birgon ja biras sámiid, she is a counsellor for SÁNAG (Sámi national competence centre). She publishes works in the fields of history, art and poetry, all of which are centred on her own indigenous perspective.
Layli Long Soldier (b. 1974, Fort Collins), a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, is a poet whose work engages with history, language, and Indigenous sovereignty. She is the author of Whereas (2017) and Chromosomory (2010). Her new book of poetry, We, is forthcoming in 2026. Her poems have appeared in various renowned media publications. Long Soldier teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Gunnhild Øyehaug (b. 1975, Ørsta) lives in Bergen, where she teaches at the Academy of Creative Writing. She made her debut with the poetry collection Slave of the Blueberry in 1998, and has written twelve books in various genres, and a screenplay. Øyehaug has a master’s degree in comparative literature, and has received several awards for her writing, amongst them the prestigious Sult Award (2009) and the Dobloug Prize (2009). Her work has been translated into several languages. Her latest novel is Here Comes the Sun (2024), for which she received the Nynorsk prize for literature.

Gunnhild Øyehaug (b. 1975, Ørsta) lives in Bergen, where she teaches at the Academy of Creative Writing. She made her debut with the poetry collection Slave of the Blueberry in 1998, and has written twelve books in various genres, and a screenplay. Øyehaug has a master’s degree in comparative literature, and has received several awards for her writing, amongst them the prestigious Sult Award (2009) and the Dobloug Prize (2009). Her work has been translated into several languages. Her latest novel is Here Comes the Sun (2024), for which she received the Nynorsk prize for literature.

Alexander Aga Røynstrand (b. 1990, Hadanger) is a leading figure in the world of Hardanger fiddle players in Norway. His musical expression is deeply rooted in the rich and time-honored Hardanger fiddle repertoire of his native Hardanger region. Over the years, his solo performances have allowed him to craft unique interpretations and convey his personal sentiments through his music.

Ulla Schildt’s (b. 1971, Finland) work combines analog and digital photography with archival material and found objects. In recent years, she has focused particularly on humanity’s need to collect and organize, and in that way “master” the world. Based on the climate crisis and the idea that we are now living in the Anthropocene, the age of humans, Schildt's works explore a changed understanding of nature and reality. Schildt is educated at the Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland) and Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture (Finland). Schildt has also participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. She lives and works in Oslo.

Knut Jonas Sellevold (b. 1980, Stavanger) is a Bergen-based sound artist, educator, and researcher. His artistic work and research lie at the intersection of ethnomusicology and sound studies, pedagogy, technology, and ecology. Knut is also one half of the duo to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest with Cuban interdisciplinary artist Daiyen Jone. Together they explore improvised, imaginary landscapes in the hinterlands of music, sound, and nature.