Minni Välipakka is a 30-year-old poet, media artist and DJ from Tampere. During her career she has worked with video art and installations and has been a pioneer in the field of video poetry in Finland. Her video art has been shown at the Zebra Poetry film festival in Berlin, the FiSH film festival in Rostock and the Tampere Film Festival. Välipakka won the Pirkanmaa writing competition with her sex work themed poems in 2019 and she has performed at Tampere Tallipihalla 2019, Finlayson Art Areas 2022 and Helsinki Kutkutus festival 2019 to mention a few. She has performed with her husband Ville Färsaaret as Rakettiryhmä 10 000 collective at G Livelab in Tampere, Kuivaamo at DUMBØ Artshow and Kotka Art.
At festival Välipakka will perform her poetry performance Siipikuorma.
Curators’ comments: “Välipakka writes thoroughly original texts that don’t shy away from tough topics. Her writing is wonderfully vivid and free. At the heart of it all is a need for expression, an avalanche of experiences and perceptions, combining speech-like language and detached narrative. The rhythm and precision of Välipakka’s writing is in a class of its own!”
