PERUTTU / CANCELLED

Kuihtuminen ja kuolema on kolmas ja viimeinen osa Just a Gardener -esitystrilogiasta. Esitys on vuoden 2025 Höyhentämön pääohjelmistossa. Butotanssia sekä videotaidetta yhdistävän teoksen koollekutsujana, koreografina ja tanssijana toimii Minja Mertanen. (English below.)

Kolmiosainen teossarja etenee luonnon kiertokulun mukaan. Teossarjan ensimmäinen osa Kaipuu esitettiin Galleria Kasvihuoneen avajaisissa Helsingissä kesällä 2021 sekä Ekata Teatren Blendi-tapahtumassa Bottalla Helsingissä syksyllä 2021. Kaipuu kuvasi kevään ensimmäisiä tapahtumia luonnossa ja puutarhurissa: Kuinka kasvin siemenet heräävät eloon pitkän talven jälkeen. Miltä tuntuu puutarhurin pakottava tarve upottaa sormet multaan ja tuntea yhteys juuri tähän maahan, tähän paikkaan ja aikaan; kuinka maa ravitsee myös ihmistä.

Teossarjan toinen osa Kasvu ja kukoistus sai ensi-iltansa Performance Sirkuksella Helsingissä kesäkuussa 2023 ja sitä esitettiin Jyväskylän kesä -festivaalilla heinäkuussa 2023 ja sen tuotti Höyhentämö. Teossarjan toinen osa sijoittui luonnon kiertokulussa keskikesään, aikaan jolloin luonto on kukkeimmillaan. Samalla esitys oli ylistys eri tavoin ja eri ikäkausina kukkivalle, monimuotoiselle naisluonnolle.

Nyt tekeillä oleva kolmas osa, Kuihtuminen ja kuolema etenee luonnon syyskauteen ja talvehtimiseen: lakastumiseen, mätänemiseen, käpertymiseen ja hiljaiseen kuoleman prosessiin. Samalla esitys juhlistaa elämää, luonnon kiertokulkua ja syklisyyttä; vain loppuminen voi mahdollistaa uuden alkamisen. Kuolema tapahtumana on yhteiskunnassamme vaiettu ja piilotettu. Esitys tuo kuolemaan johtavan prosessin näyttämölliseen tarkasteluun ja haastaa meidät kohtaamaan oman rajallisuutemme ja haavoittuvaisuutemme.

Esitys lähestyy ei-inhimillistä maailmaa luonnon prosessien kautta. Esitys kehollistaa syksyn ja talven prosesseja toisten kasvien kuollessa ja toisten vetäytyessä lepotilaan. Esityksessä käsitellään paitsi ihmisen kuolevaisuutta niin myös luonnon kuihtumista ja syklisyyttä, ihmiselämää suurempia ajallisia kaaria.

Kuolema on yksi harvoista asioista joka koskettaa meitä kaikkia sukupuoleen, alkuperään, luokkaan, etuoikeuksiin, taitoihin ja lajiin katsomatta. Näin se tasa-arvoistaa meitä paitsi muiden ihmisten, myös muiden eliölajien kesken.

Minja Mertanen on pitkän linjan butôtaiteilija joka on työskennellyt butôn parissa 20 vuoden ajan. Hän on koulutukseltaan tanssinopettaja, tanssi-liiketerapeutti, joogaohjaaja ja opiskelee parhaillaan somaattista liiketerapiaa. Mertanen työskentelee tanssijana, esitystentekijänä sekä esitystaiteilijana Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskuksella, Toisissa tiloissa ryhmässä sekä Höyhentämössä. Mertanen työskentelee butôtaiteilijana ja -opettajana Suomessa ja ulkomailla, viime vuosina lähinnä Espanjassa ja Ranskassa. Mertanen on perustanut Be(a)ware Butoh Festivaalin Helsinkiin.

Koreografia:Minja Mertanen
Taiteellinen työryhmä ja esiintyminen: Minja Mertanen, Giorgio Convertito,
Juha Sääski, Aarni Korpela ja Teemu Päivinen
Valot ja videot: Henrik Miettinen
Musiikki: Tatu Rönkkö
Puvut: Suvi Hänninen
Tuotanto: Höyhentämö
Hinta: 25€/15€

Esitykset 8/9/10 Joulukuuta
Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

Withering and Death is the third and final part of the Just a Gardener performance trilogy. The performance will be in the main program of Höyhentämö in 2025. Minja Mertanen is the convener, choreographer and dancer of the work, which combines buto dance and video art.

The three-part series of works progresses according to the cycle of nature. The first part of the series, Kaipuu, was performed at the opening of Galleria Kasvihuone in Helsinki in the summer of 2021 and at Ekata Teatre’s Blendi event at Botta in Helsinki in the fall of 2021. Kaipuu depicted the first events of spring in nature and in the gardener: How the seeds of a plant come to life after a long winter. What does it feel like for a gardener to sink their fingers into the soil and feel a connection to this very land, this place and time; how the land also nourishes people.

The second part of the series, Growth and Blossoming, premiered at Performance Sirkus in Helsinki in June 2023 and was performed at the Jyväskylä Summer Festival in July 2023 and was produced by Höyhentämö. The second part of the series was set in the cycle of nature in midsummer, a time when nature is at its most blossoming. At the same time, the performance was a praise for the diverse, feminine nature that blooms in different ways and at different ages.

The third part, Withering and Death, currently in progress, progresses to the autumn season and wintering of nature: wilting, rotting, curling up and the silent process of death. At the same time, the performance celebrates life, the cycle and cyclicity of nature; only an end can enable a new beginning. Death as an event is silenced and hidden in our society. The performance brings the process leading to death into dramatic examination and challenges us to face our own limitations and vulnerability.

The performance approaches the non-human world through natural processes. The performance embodies the processes of autumn and winter as some plants die and others retreat into dormancy. The performance deals not only with human mortality but also with the withering and cyclicity of nature, temporal arcs larger than human life.

Death is one of the few things that touches us all, regardless of gender, origin, class, privilege, skills, or species. In this way, it equalizes us not only with other people, but also with other species.

Minja Mertanen is a long-time butoh artist who has worked with butoh for 20 years. She is a trained dance teacher, dance movement therapist, yoga instructor and is currently studying somatic movement therapy. Mertanen works as a dancer, performer and performance artist at the Research Center for Reality, the Other Spaces group and Höyhentämö. Mertanen works as a butoh artist and teacher in Finland and abroad, in recent years mainly in Spain and France. Mertanen is the founder of Be(a)ware Butoh Festival. 

Choreography: Minja Mertanen
Artistic team and performance: Minja Mertanen, Giorgio Convertito, Juha Sääski, Aarni Korpela and Teemu Päivinen
Lights and videos: Henrik Miettinen
Music: Tatu Rönkkö
Costumes: Suvi Hänninen
Production: Höyhentämö
Price: 25€/15€

Performances 8/9/10 of December at Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4.

Brusnika, or lingonberry in English, offers a sonic vitamin portion in the middle of darkness. Through the use of analog and digital music technology in their practice, six artists will share with the audience their soft, sharp, energizing, calm and playful sets. Brusnika is organized by Helsinki-based artist and sound designer Alya Grad. 

Sasha Wilde & Joni Judén

Sasha Wilde is a Lithuanian-born artist whose journey has taken them from a small-town childhood to 15 formative years in London, and now to a home in Helsinki. Sasha’s ritualistic sound & performance practice moves between alt-pop songwriting, electronic experimental music & sound art. Their soaring, visceral voice anchors the performance, shifting between tender melodic lines, extended vocal techniques with raw, guttural exclamations & spoken samples. It’s live audio essay meets avant-pop gig meets queer surreal avantgarde.

Artist collaboration has enabled Sasha’s practice to span a variety of mediums, leading to international performances and residencies, composing sound for films, and publishing their writing and translations. Their work has been featured and presented internationally at the ICA, Somerset House, Glastonbury Festival, GirlsInFilm, Promo TV, Iklectik, Strangers Press (UK), OUT magazine (USA), IRCAM forum Centre Pompidou (FR), Lithuanian National TV, Kaunas Artists’ House, Kreivės film festival, Sapfo festival, Opus Radio (LT), and others.

At Brusnika, Sasha will be joined by Joni Judén 

Joni Judén  (he/him b.2.9.1980) is an artist, musician & producer, an AiR coordinator and host. Joni is the co-founder of TUO TUO, an artist-led project space & residency, as well as the head of its affiliate record label, True Aether. Over the past 20+years under different aliases (Celestial Trax, Visions of Trees, Sisilisko, Linnuissa, et al.) Joni has explored the intersection of electronic music and human(e) expression, delving deep into collage-like textural soundscapes and sonic storytelling. Between 2000-2017 Joni resided in London and New York, where he worked in collaboration with contemporary artists  and collectives, including Rinse (UK), PTP (USA), Quay Dash (NYC), On The Sly (USA), Amniote Editions (DK) and DisFig (Berlin). Joni has performed and toured widely, including performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Glastonbury festival (UK), Roundhouse (London), Berghain (Berlin) and SXSW (USA). Joni’s music has been featured and reviewed by the likes of Pitchfork, The Wire, Resident Advisor, NPR Music and BBC Radio 6 (UK). Joni is one half of Death by Landscape, an experimental music group with Victor Gogly.

EILIEN

Experimental ambient pop with coded sounds and ethereal vocals. It’s been a while since the release of Eilien’s debut album Digital Lovers  (2021): a 10-track trip through glowing ambience, mesmerising dream pop, musique concrète and deconstructed trance as described by DJ MAG. In 2025 there is less digital daydreaming and more contemplation over the darkness and fragility of our time.

Vili Aarre

Vili Aarre is an artist who makes music, sound and sound designs. At the core of Vili’s practice is combining swag and nerdy. With a background in electric guitar -music and dramaturgically coherent stage art Vili combines the affects of multiple genres to a visceral mass aiming to puncture the fabric of everyday with a little transcendence. Vili’s current music consists of sound beings as pompous melodies, distortion, uncanny colors and collapsing tremolos. It feeds on the sun, the hyperreal, the dum and the ancient.

Lumi Mannermaa 

Lumi Mannermaa is a sound artist based in Helsinki who works between the realms of failure and success, using absurdity as a medium for communication. In her practice she uses augmented toy instruments, free improvisation, pataphysical conceptuality and modern day nuisances, such as social media content streams, covering subjects such as mistake, the subconscious, and the ugly and humorous, to name few.
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Alya Grad

Alya Grad is Helsinki-based sound designer and electronic music artist. Touched by industrial tones, the sonic signature of Alya Grad unifies softness and sharpness, blending noises and rhythms into layered dreamlike stories. Alya is currently working on her first upcoming album. She will open the evening with an introduction set specially designed for Brusnika. 
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Warmly welcome to Brusnika! Come alone, come with your friends and loved ones. Come to escape the coldness, come to enjoy electronic experiments and give us your support! 

Time:
21.11.2025
At 19, Doors 18.30

Place:
Toinen Kerros (Äänen Lumo), Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

Price:
Pay what you can 5-10-15€, extra support 20€+  via Mobile Pay or PayPal  
(The instruction will be provided at the entrance) 

Give us your support! 

Practical information: 

• Brusnika and the Äänen Lumo space follow the safer space guidelines. Please read: https://todellisuus.fi/turvallisemmantilanperiaatteet/
• Children are welcome with adults, please use the noise-cancelling headphones/ earmuffs for children 
• Regular earplugs for adults will be provided by Brusnika
• Doors 18.30. The event starts at 19, with a short breaks between sets. 
• Payment instruction will be provided at the entrance, all money will be distributed to the artists
• The address is: Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki, 2nd floor. Once you are in the space, go past the Playhouse bar, and follow the Äänen Lumo signs on the walls & doors. 
• Unfortunately the space is currently not fully accessible. There is a possibility for accessible entrance via the elevator from the backyard door, but there are no accessible toilets. For more details please see the information about the space or contact Äänen Lumo: https://aanenlumo.com/toinen-kerros/new-space/

Other event details: 

• Brusnika will try to serve some tea/ non-alcoholic drinks. You’re welcome to bring your own beverages. Please, stay responsible, take care of yourself and others around you 

Climara Forte

Footwork experiment blessed by sacred plastic pieces,,, climara forte makes a comeback with new rythms
Link: Bandcamp

Semot Semot Posa

Semot semot posa is a dream band by two lovers. Theater makers and performers Minne Mäki and Io Pettersson utilise their bodies to dream big in sound, music and performance, at the same time being radically honest and amateur. They play softly with hardware, hardly with software and everything in between to find places to connect and grow.

Ján Števuliak

ján is a composer, organist and multidisciplinary artist. they like contrast very much (perhaps because their main identities of a catholic organist and a wannabe ballroom-voguing diva are set to be at odds), and through its use they try to synthesise the weird feeling of incongruity when its standalone components are composed next to each other.

be it mixing high art with low art, mess with clarity, kellotapuli with a kirkkovene (kippis xD), or ugly chords with pretty chords; they try to play with the confusion, look for the sense of it all and suggest that diversity is indeed beautiful and the dialogue is necessary

on being comforted, on loving and being loved. on changing together, slowly, peacefully, but irreversibly.
sense of time passing, yet offering timelessness at the same time.
a set with its own rules resembling a game.
a transformation from innocent, silly and light-hearted state of being to one with deeply profound but melancholic, realistic and heartbreaking quality
Link: Bandcamp
Link: A performance with cellist Rebecca Burden, for TIDES at SET Woolwich, 12/22.

Richard Hronský

Richard Hronský (2002) is a Western Carpathian transdisciplinary artist, musician, and “ambient shepherd” – he plays the traditional overtone bass wind instrument, the fujara. In his live performances, he focuses on decomposing the sound of the fujara through electronic processing, denationalizing it, and together with compositional harmonies and collected field recordings, shaping them into boundless dreamscapes. These landscapes mourn the sorrows of the world, reveal intimacy through nostalgia and frozen memory, yet at the same time invite contemplation and silence. He has been active in music production since the age of thirteen.

He has released three albums, the most recent, Pohreb (Funeral), published in September 2025 by mappa editions (Slovakia – international). In 2024–2025 he studied in Athens, where he actively participated in the experimental music events ATD held in the city’s underground sewer system.

Hronský also organizes DIY events – collective exhibitions and concerts in abandoned buildings or natural environments. He initiated/curated the exhibition Rozptyl (Dispersion, 2023) in Bratislava, which brought together more than 150 artists from over ten EU countries and was realized with almost no financial support.

Through his approaches, he continuously stimulates free creativity, questions competitiveness, and reminds us of the encouragement – and above all the kindness – that remain in artistic creation.
Link: Bandcamp

Time:
17. November 2025, 18:00 (doors),
Voluntary entrance/donation

Place
Toinen Kerros (Äänen Lumo)
Nokiantie 2-4, 00510 Helsinki

Performances combining live music and videogames by:

/ kashyyk_culture
/ Aatos Ketvel & Santtu Kauppila
/ Bakery
/ November Rain x June Midsummer

@ Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4

Doors: 18:00
Performances: 18:30 ->

Entrance 0e – 10e, 5e recommendation

See you there! 

Facebook event here

MUSA ULLAKOLLA 10

MSHR  Network Entity AV set (US)
LAU NAU  Quadraphonic
OLIMPIA SPLENDID
KOMUGI ANDO (JP/FI)
DJ MLÄMLÄ in-between the shows

7.11. 2025 Toinen kerros

doors 19.30
live music starts at 20.00 ->

tickets 5-10-15 €

Suhina Klubi serves as a platform for improvised and experimental music and sound art within Helsinki. During the year 2025 we present improvised music ensembles from Finland and abroad.

In the fourth edition of Suhina Klubi for the fall 2025, we are present Brad Henkel & Jukka Kääriäinen

Brad Henkel is an American trumpeter and composer currently living in Berlin, Germany. He focuses primarily on improvisation, utilizing a wide palette of timbres from both composed and non-composed sounds. He creates and performs music based on a blend of jazz, contemporary music, and Echtzeitmusik traditions. He is a member of the KIM collective.

Jukka Kääriäinen is a musician focused on experimental music. Depending on the situation, Jukka’s instruments include a prepared acoustic guitar or an electric guitar with a backpack full of effects. Kääriäinen has performed in many European countries and at international festivals in the United Kingdom, Spain, and France. In addition to solo concerts, he regularly performs in ensembles and has collaborated with musicians such as Teppo Hauta-Aho, Kalle Kalima, Harri Sjöström, Axel Dörner, Kriton Beyer, Rieko Okuda, Anil Eraslan, Mikko Innanen, and Joel Grip. He has also premiered works by composers such as Riikka Talvitie, Sebastian Hilli, Sami Klemola, Clara de Asís, and Tytti Arola.

DATE AND TIME:
25.10.25 klo 19:00
PLACE:
Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4), Helsinki

Libero Mureddu – physically modelled piano and effects; Eevi Oittinen – performative drawing.

Their collaborative project, Fragments (active since 2024), explores through improvisation the space where visuals and sound share equal importance.

Tickets: donation between 5 and 15€ via MobilePay or cash.

The concert will be recorded.

BIOS

Libero Mureddu is an Italian-Finnish pianist, improviser, composer, and researcher based in Helsinki. Active in the Finnish and European improvised music scene, he currently leads the ‘murmur trio’ with bassist Andrea Grossi and drummer Cristiano Calcagnile. In his research projects he combines improvisation, composition, digital audiovisual projections, and algorithmic scores to create unpredictable performative scenarios. He teaches free and electroacoustic improvisation at the Sibelius Academy.

Eevi Oittinen is a visual artist fascinated by the interaction of the visual and the sonic arts. Her work includes traditional painting in mixed media as well as interdisciplinary collaborations that bring together painting and contemporary music. With an analogue overhead projector, Oittinen’s drawing becomes a (mute) musical instrument. In direct dialogue with improvised music, free from the hierarchy of one illustrating the other, focus is on presence and communication.

Unfortunately the event is cancelled! / Tapahtuma peruttu

A night of improvisation blending strings, voices and flute with the acoustics of the spacious Äänen Lumo. 

Performers:
Biliana Voutchkova – violin/voice (Bulgaria/Germany)
Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi – voice/flute (Finland)
Kristjan Kannukene – viola/voice (Estonia)

Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Based between Berlin and her rural residency on the black sea coast of Bulgaria, Biliana works internationally as a soloist, in group and collaborative projects with renowned artists and with ensembles. She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival and member of the faculty at the Academy of Arts Bern/HKB Bern.

Kristjan Kannukene is an Estonian violist-vocalist, electric guitarist, improviser-composer and intermedia artist, researching the symbiosis of viola and voice and leading the festival of improvised arts – HETKfEST.

Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi is a versatile Finnish vocalist-flutist, performer, improviser, and composer working across innovative new music, experimental music, improvisation, and interdisciplinary concepts.

Free entrance, we suggest a 5–15 € donation to the musicians (MobilePay or cash)

Cassette release party by Giant Corn and friends!
16.10. at 19.00 in Toinen Kerros

“A shed is a place where rarely used objects get stored and eventually forgotten. However the objects in a shed hold enough importance to keep, as there might be memories connected to them. It’s a place for semi-useful objects, too useful to get rid of, but unnecessary in daily life. What can these objects tell us, what kind of life have they had?”

An evening of performances and films, presented inside an actual shed!

Line-up:

19:00 doors open

19:20 Juan Duarte

20:00 Film by Shubhangi Singh

20:20 Kanttoripoika

21:00 Film by Hanan and Saara Mahbouba

21:20 Giant Corn

22:00 DJ Midnight Mangonada

Be there or be □

Saturday 4.10. at 18 / lauantai 4.10. klo 18

Kaleva – A journey into the folklore of the Baltic Sea through improvised music and movement

Kaleva is a performance inspired by Finno-Ugric folklore. The performance awakens ancient symbols through sound and movement, offering the audience a timeless journey into the heritage of the Baltic Sea region. The performance intertwines peoples and traditions – Estonian and Finnish cultural roots find common ground and artistic expression together with artists from Japan and South Korea.

Matka Itämeren kansanperinteeseen improvisoidun musiikin ja liikkeen kautta.

Kaleva on musiikillinen esitys, joka ammentaa inspiraationsa suomalais-ugrilaisesta kansanperinteestä. Esitys herättää muinaiset symbolit eloon musiikin ja liikkeen kautta ja tarjoaa yleisölle ajattoman matkan Itämeren alueen kansanperinteeseen. Esityksessä kansat ja perinteet kietoutuvat yhteen – virolaiset ja suomalaiset kulttuurijuuret löytävät yhteisen perustan ja taiteellisen ilmaisun yhdessä japanilaisten ja eteläkorealaisten taiteilijoiden kanssa.

Performers / Esiintyjät
Annika Johanna Sirkiä (FI), tuba / tuuba
Kristjan Kannukene (EE), viola / alttoviulu
Sakiko Ishii (JP), kantele
Dongbin Lee (KR), dance / tanssi

Free entrance, we suggest a 5–15 € donation to the musicians (MobilePay or cash)
Vapaa pääsy, vapaaehtoinen tukimaksu 5–15 € esiintyjille (MobilePay tai käteinen)