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  • 14.-19.8.25 / Seikka II Installation & Night of Arts & Fluxus performance

    14.-19.8.25 / Seikka II Installation & Night of Arts & Fluxus performance

    Seikka II Installation in Toinen Kerros 14-19th of August

    Recorded fragments of poetry resonate from paper speakers. Sounds sprout from the silences—perhaps it is music…

    The second part of Olli Moilanen’s interdisciplinary Seikka performance series brings a sculptural sound installation to the Runokuu (Poetry Moon) festival for one week. The speaker modules have been built by multidisciplinary artist Priss Niinikoski. The voices emerging from the speakers recite poetry by German poet Simone Goldschmidt-Lechner and Finnish poet Tuukka Pietarinen. The poetry was curated in collaboration with the Nuoren Voiman Liitto. 

    Olli Moilanen’s work is supported by the Kone Foundation, Priss Niinikoski’s work by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, and the construction of the installation was supported with a materials grant from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

    Installation is open in August as follows:
    Thu 14th 19-21
    Fri 15th 16-20
    Sat 16th 14-18
    Sun 17th 14-18
    Tue 19th 16-20

    Poesia Night Club on Thursday the 14th at 19-21 in Toinen Kerros

    As part of the installation and Poetry Moon festival opening event, Osuuskunta Poesia’s night club will feature performances by this autumn’s poets, Aki Salmela and Aura Siltala. The evening will also include a discussion with Erkka Filander about his new collection Siemenholvi, published in June.

    In the same space, there will be a book exhibition dedicated to Erkka Filander’s Siemenholvi. The work is a monument to the printed word, its carefully crafted architecture guiding the reader through imagery of destruction and displacement that echoes Western cultural heritage, and the rituals and literature that arise from the need to remember. The book’s exceptional ambition is also reflected in its scale: the physical object is cut to the dimensions of classical codices (300x400mm), resembling a temple or a literary counterpart to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It is a means of preserving and remembering possibilities.

    More info here

    Fluxus Performance 16th of August 15.00-16.00

    Naarmu is a collective of experimental music and performance art enthusiasts, rooted in the research-based full-length production of The Great Learning by Cornelius Cardew, realized on the Tulkinnanvaraista forum between 2020 and 2024.

    The group is sustained by its members’ shared interest in learning together through experimentation, dialogue, mutual trust, and the cultivation of polyphony. Its members come from diverse backgrounds and age groups. Everyone interested is warmly welcome to join the activities.

    At the Runokuu Festival, the group will perform text-based Fluxus scores by Ben Vautier, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young.

    More info here

  • 13.6.25 / Bloom & Gloom

    13.6.25 / Bloom & Gloom

    Bloom & Gloom is an Äänen Lumo organised event that brings interesting sonic acts with various approaches to your ears from near and far. Come bask in the gloom and smell the flowers!

    Time 13.6., doors at 19.00
    Place Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4)
    Price: 5-10-15 e, pay what you can

    Peter J. Woods (UK)
    OTOTOMY
    Sirpa Kalla
    GUNK

    Peter J. Woods is a scholar and artist with a deep interest in experimental music, DIY arts communities, and communal knowledge production. His work pulls equally from the worlds of harsh noise and absurdist theatre. The performances build a sense of terror from simple imagery, muted text and an unpredictable barrage of silence and sound. Woods utilizes these approaches within a critical context, building on his scholarly work to challenge oppressive formations embedded within the musical contexts he finds himself in.

    OTOTOMY is the noise project of East Helsinki–based artist Matti Närekangas, born out of frustration with music as a form of expression. For OTOTOMY, sound holds meaning regardless of how it’s made. Blending analog elements, unusual recordings, and digital manipulation, he crafts chaotic soundscapes inspired by Engelbert Humperdinck, flying squirrels, escalators, death, the fear of abandonment and the ecstasy from observation of life. OTOTOMY has self-released two EPs HARD2BEGOD (2022) and FAILURE (2024) as well as the split NO SUGAR (2024) with Sasanian.

    Sirpa Kalla was born in 2024 in Portugal, in the dunes of Adraga. She thrives on unintentionally generated sounds, the atmosphere of old industrial areas and the roughness and rasp of rust and debris. Sirpa Kalla cuts random loops from cassettes found in the streets and abandoned buildings, combining them with minimalist synths and contact mic’d objects.

    GUNK is a group that has been active since 2011, their performance usually consists of drones, metallic scraping and raw minimalism, all wrapped up into conceptual improvisation. This is their first performance since 2019. Their new album “Hard” will be out summer 2025.