Tonya (Ton) Melnyk and Masha Ravlyk
Tonya (Ton) Melnyk (b. 1988) is a textile and multimedia artist and queer-feminist activist from Kyiv, who works with topics of fairly priced labor, discrimination and ways to overcome it, preservation of queer history, antiwar topics and ecology. Masha Ravlyk (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist and queer feminist activist, born in Volzhsky, Russia. They […]
Ryosuke Kiyasu
Japanese Ryosuke Kiyasu has been performing as a solo snare drummer all over the world. He is the drummer of his own bands SETE STAR SEPT, Kiyasu Orchestra, and The Endless Blockade which he founded. Kiyasu has been playing the drums for Keiji Haino’s experimental psychedelic rock band Fushitsusha for over ten years. He has […]
mirrored fatality
mirrored fatality is an underground interdependent Kapampangan and South Asian xenotransbinary experimental and healing noise queer punk farmer duo sharing their rituals + altars. mirrored fatality creates their “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, and healing justice practice spaces to mobilize a warrior community responding […]
Toivo Hauru
Toivo “Topi” Hauru is a media assistant, a writer, a YouTuber and a music maker. When it comes to making art, writing is Hauru´s preferred medium of self-expression. His favorite theme is social injustice viewed from the angle of a non-neurotypical person. During the years Hauru has formed a very original viewpoint about society and […]
Theatre Group Vautsi
The theater ensemble Vautsi‘s motto is: “People on the spectrum see things that a neurotypical person doesn’t.” The theater ensemble Vautsi has operated in Helsinki, Vallila from the year 2008. The members of the ensemble change from time to time but the current formation has worked together since 2022. The group is inspired by iconic […]
Dance Group Ihanat
The dance ensemble Ihanat is a Finnish group that has been active from the year 2014. The group focuses on giving each dancer space to be seen through their strengths and on adjusting the artistic practice to serve every dancer’s special needs. The dance ensemble Ihanat is directed by the dance and performance artist Riina […]
Sähkökehto
Sähkökehto, which roughly translates to Electric Cradle, is the alias of Julius Jämsén, musician and media artist from Joensuu. At the festival Sähkökehto presents an immersive video work. The medium of Sähkökehto’s art varies from experimental sound to video art, but the method always relates to the dialogue between man and machine. The visual components […]
Myrtillius Kauria
Myrtillius Kauria is a self-taught artist from Helsinki who works with rya tapestries, clay and animation. At the festival Kauria will exhibit works from his newest collection called Moderni orjuus (Modern Slavery), which is a small glimpse into the reality of a young Finnish person working different short-term jobs under precarious conditions. The collection collides […]
Miska Tuononen
Miska Tuononen is a writer and director. His films are filled with vintage aesthetics, vivid colors and great sense of beauty. The use of dialogue in his films is often minimal or non-existent. The films of Tuononen convey strong messages of life, environment and inner healing with little words and plenty of feeling. Tuononen has […]
Mikko Lautiainen
Mikko Lautiainen is a performance artist, a painter and a poet who comes from Kemijärvi. At the festival Lautiainen will present his new performance “Minä olen maailma” (I Am the World). In his performances Lautiainen depicts the opposites of the world. The performances are pictures of a sensitive approach to the world, reduced to their […]