Kreetta Astala and Siiri Lehtiö
Kreetta Astala and Siiri Lehtiö as a working pair premiere their contemporary circus performance called Remote at the OAF festival. This first joint performance of Astala and Lehtiö addresses control and the loss of it, the exercise of power and insecurity with a comical twist. As a final result, you can see what happens to […]
Li Taiga and Jenni Österlund
Li Taiga and Jenni Österlund are the artists of the performative documentary “The Totem of our Generation”. Österlund and Taiga built an installation nearby a rubbish dump using industrial waste and ingredients of the local forest. The audio-visual artwork might be situated in a post-apocalyptic world, in which the creatures begin to merge with the […]
Panu “Prinssi” Palm
Panu “Prinssi” Palm’s artistic work covers all art forms including music, videos and installations. Prinssi’s work is fueled by humor, gloomy themes and a strong DIY spirit, which speaks to the spectator as naked as possible – sometimes quite literally. Prinssi’s art focuses on issues of mental health, the human psyche and the values of […]
Riina Noro
Riina Noro (b. 1981) is a Helsinki-based visual artist and filmmaker who has been working at the Autism Foundation’s Vallila Art Studio since 2013. Noro combines different art methods in an extensive and unprejudiced manner. In Noro’s animations, textile sculptures and paintings, all kinds of company are dashing and winding wildly in and out, human […]
Finnish Deafblind Association’s working group
The film “Kädet” (in English: “Hands”) produced by the Finnish Deafblind Association describes the meaning of hands in communication. Through a number of key events, “Kädet” tells about the association’s 50 years of work and about the birth of this own, rare community. The father of the idea for this film and its director is […]
Kalevi Helvetti
Kalevi Helvetti is Pertti Kurika’s satanic alter ego. Kalevi Helvetti is a musician, performer, poet, writer and visual artist. The central theme of Kalevi Helvetti is fear and its various manifestations in human life. Helvetti often deals with these subjects through macabre humor, which makes even the most difficult things in everyday life look less […]