Animist Funeral Journey  is a performance by Per Huttner with Sámi shaman Jonas Engman. It was shown on a burial mound outside Krokvik, close to Kiruna in northern Sweden August 16, 2025.

The performance forms the last part of a larger project where visitors walk in nature with a group of artists. The work focuses on examining mankind’s connection to nature: to nature that is pulsating inside us and to nature which is sprawling and sprouting around us. Special attention is paid to reflections about how contemporary Western civilisation breeds insensitivity to the natural vibrations within us and around us. The reflects on how we, through rationality, have lost the connection to the outside world which is instead shaped by ideas and ideologies. This world view makes us focus on regrets about the past and the future and takes focus from life here and now. In the walk the group investigates how, through traditional Sami and Kven knowledge and the arts, we can reconnect to life in new and inspiring ways.

In the performance Engman wears his shaman attire at a sacred Sami burial mound. He starts joiking and playing his drum and embarks on a journey. After a while Huttner starts making electronic music in real time which is based on Engman’s recorded brain activity and natural sounds.