Kalevi Helvetti
The alter ego of Pertti Kurikka – Kalevi Helvetti – delivers straight forward punk with his frightening pictures. Medieval imagery warns of earthly sins and otherworldly horrors. Kurikka has always been interested in drawing and horror thematics. His alter ego Kalevi Helvetti was born in the autumn of 2011 in the form of a c-cassette […]
Jari Nordström
Jari Nordström (born 1967) is a filmmaker and journalist. He produces radio programs and reports for Kivimedia, also working on documentaries and reportage. Nordström has been making films since the 1990s, and his works have been shown on television as well as at film festivals. At the festival, Nordström will present his latest documentary “Suomen […]
Homa Shokri & and the working group
Homa Shokri is a Helsinki-based performance and video artist. Her work explores political violence and the uninhabitability of bodies, often drawing from personal and collective experiences of oppression. With a background in dramaturgy and directing, her practice challenges dominant narratives about how fear and violence mobilise bodies, engaging with themes such as necropolitics and resistance. […]
LIPGLOSSBOY
LIPGLOSSBOY is a performer, dancer, writer and a music producer. He works with memory pattern embodiment, digital otherness and trans cyborg dimensions. In his work everything starts from fantasies getting physical. In his art he states that fantasy is already true in itself and the division between fantasy and reality is fake. His performances combine […]
Teatteriryhmä Vautsi
Teatteriryhmä Vautsi (“The Theatre Group Vautsi”) has been operating at the Autism Foundation Finland (Autismisäätiö) in Helsinki’s Vallila district since 2008. The ensemble has seen many changes over time, but the current group has worked together since autumn 2024. This small but deeply reflective group values acceptance, kindness, and understanding. Teatteriryhmä Vautsi’s motto is: “A […]
Pekka Luodeslampi
Pekka “UncleSamPatriot” Luodeslampi is a fitness-boxing “superhero,” performance artist, and social media comedian who began his career on YouTube in 2007. He now has 88,000 followers on TikTok, 3.1 million likes, and over 80 million views. Through his art, Luodeslampi aims to create boundary-breaking, absurd humor that can bring joy to people everywhere, regardless of […]
Kaaos Company
Kaaos Company is an inclusive dance group that has been active for 15 years, challenging normative conventions through their work by opening the stage to a wide variety of bodies. Kaaos Company develops movement language and training methods that create space for the uniqueness of each body. The dancers’ different physical characteristics and abilities are […]
Olli Huusko
Olli Huusko describes himself as a 29-year-old HFA (High Functioning Autism) young adult who is highly musically gifted and also excels at performing and voice acting. He makes music under the name Kantele Guy and has participated in the fan-dubbing YouTube channel Studio Fanitus. Huusko enjoys performing and entertaining people. He dreams of achieving celebrity […]
Juuso Juntunen
Juuso “Jube” Juntunen (b. 1991) is a Helsinki-based enthusiast of acting, singing, poetry, photography, and music. He serves as an expert by experience and a peer specialist, and he has studied at the Resonaari music school. Juntunen has acted in Theater Ilmiö and in numerous films. He has gained singing experience in four veterans’ homes, […]
Kaisa Leppikangas
Kaisa Leppikangas is a single mother and psychologist. She writes poems in a social services office for parents exhausted by the rough edges of everyday life and escapes the pressures of the everyday into wastelands. At the festival, excerpts will be heard from Leppikangas’s poetry collection Joutomaa (“Wasteland”), which came into being like barley growing […]