Current Residents Mia Tamme
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Mia Tamme, Wedded to Fishing Nets, 2025, Photo by Joosep Kivimäe
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Mia Tamme, Some of Them Might be Hard to Belive, 2025, Photo by Sam Mountford
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Mia Tamme, Boat Tour on Pirita River, 2025, Photo by Brigit Arop
Mia Tamme is an artist, writer, community organiser, storyteller, filmmaker, and sailor. Her artistic practice is a queer continuation of Finno-Baltic heritage: weaving, fishing, singing, sauna heating. Mia intertwines theory and practice for embodied research into folk arts, exploring their underlying connections to gender, identity, and the nation-state. Through her creative non-fiction writing and performances, she critically examines ethnography and archival practices, seeking ways of thinking through decolonial and queer theory in the context of the Baltic region. They have been part of the Dutch Art Institute generation 2023, and run a DIY collectie Daylight Project in their hometown, Tallinn, Estonia.
As a lifelong sailor, and swimmer, I wonder: how can I bring the bodily experience of the sea into my performance work? How can art become less detached from the body and its wisdom? How do I write about the feeling of water? How can I sail like an artist, like a hard femme? How might sailing become a form of activism? At HIAP Soumenlinna, I will be experimenting with hydrofeminist practices and thinking about how sailing can be a way of living that simultaneously confronts and offers refuge from the environmental and politically turbulent waters we find ourselves in.