Mia Tamme is a visual researcher and an experimental film-maker from Tallinn, Estonia. They work with ethnographic research, social design and autofiction. Mia is part of a DIY collective called Daylight-project, with which they heat a queer sauna, organise storytelling gatherings, and hold space for a decolonial reading group.

Currently, Mia is studying at the Dutch Art Institute, showing their film about fisher(wo)men from an Estonian island called Hiiumaa at KUMU and writing for Artishok Biennial.

On board Godzilla Mia will carry on with their study into women who fish, fishing nets and breaking the gendered coding of seafaring. They think of sailing and its entanglement with physical forces, trade routes, marine life, seagulls, pirates, and bloody histories of migration as a political practice that cannot be fitted into words, containing both brutality and beauty. They ask how can sailing become a resistance to the land bound stupidities we have learned to take as the norm?

“I grew up sailing, windsurfing and swimming in the Baltic Sea and perhaps that tells more about me and how I approach the world than any of the above.”