Čuoikkariššu / Mosquito Shower is a sound installation that explores the tension between discomfort and coexistence through the itchy sound of mosquitoes, tiny beings with an outsized ecological role in Arctic ecosystems. It invites audiences to rethink mosquitoes and their sounds not as nuisances, but as vital participants in a dense web of relations linking humans, multispecies communities and environmental change.
Mai Britt Utsi (Uhca Pier Esthera Máijá) is a Sámi researcher and juoigi based in Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino). A PhD candidate at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences, she works with Sámi storytelling and joik traditions in the Varanger region, and has helped shape Sámi higher education since the 1990s as teacher-education leader, rector (2003–2007) and dean (2012–2016).
Nicola Renzi is an Italian-Sardinian sound artist, field recordist and ecologist of sound. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki's MultiBEING Centre of Excellence, he studies mosquito sounds and their eco-aesthetic significance in Indigenous oral traditions of the circumpolar North, using collaborative sound art and immersive field recording as core methods.
PARABOL is the name we use for the sound shower located at Kunsthall 3,14's entrance hall. The sonic works presented here are curated by Lydgalleriet on invitation from Kunsthall 3,14, with
the intention of reflecting the always relevant exhibition themes presented upstairs. Since summer 2025, PARABOL has been curated by Peter Meanwell at Lydgalleriet.
