For Bone meets blade, sonified calling out. who what will utter back (2023), Jeneen Frei Njootli “sonified” the process of making a traditional hunting instrument out of a caribou shoulder bone. With the use of a Dremel grinder and a single-beam headlamp, Frei Njootli modified the bone’s central ridge while contact microphones, distortion pedals, and an electric guitar amplifier magnified the sounds of their craftsmanship—that is, the instrument’s becoming.
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Working in their home territory of Old Crow, Yukon, Jeneen Frei Njootli is a two-spirit/queer artist whose practice engages sculpture, performance, music, textile design, and feral scholarship. Through public sound and performance works, they create intimate and embodied experiences related to ancestry, cultural heritage, and the land and its human and nonhuman inhabitants.
