SuomiSongs about Money and Debt, Communism and Solidarity
Songs about Money and Debt, Communism and Solidarity (working title) is a lecture performance inspired by anthropologist David Graeber’s book Debt. The First 5,000 Years. About the origin of money and debt – debt slavery, slave labor, debts as the creator of a network of relationships – but also about hierarchy, equality and inequality, communities,… Read more
OBLIVIA: DREAMING TURTLES
Since 2024, Oblivia has been working with and on ideas, visions and concepts of the Anthropocene, developing experimental music theatre productions within the frame of their Turn Turtle Turn cycle. 2026 will see the final production of the Turn Turtle Turn works with the new piece Dreaming Turtles, in which four performers will become just… Read more
OBLIVIA: REALITY BANG
Reality Bang continues Oblivia’s Turn Turtle Turn series. The performance weaves music, text, and movement into a sharp, minimalist performance that reflects on the “big bang of reality” – the moment society begins to truly feel the consequences of human-made climate change. The performance dives into this very moment, here and now. Performers: Timo Fredriksson,… Read more
Tree Concert
After Mustarinda residency in December 2024 we know that Tree Concert will become a performance with human voice and electric sound and moving image of trees. I voice, Jussi plays synthesizers and we both have shot some video clips of trees that I’ve made a tree video of. At the moment there is winter on… Read more
OBLIVIA: TURN TURTLE TURN
In the beginning was the ocean. Wind, perhaps, and billowing waves. Life emerged in the ocean – single-cell organisms at first, and then, sometime later, tardigrades, able to survive even nuclear apocalypse. Following many millions of years later, dinosaurs appeared, and finally, after eons of time: Humans. In the age of the Anthropocene, they made… Read more
SOS
Guess who’s tweeting in distress? Guess who’s crying for help? Is it a baby bird or a collapsing house or a drying river or a clear-cut forest or a burning forest or a melting iceberg or a polluted land or a prince or princess of the fairy tale or a climate activist in the face… Read more
Animal beings
Animal beings (AB) is a performance that takes the shape of a guided tour. AB gives the human animal the opportunity to imagine and place itself in the lives of other animals and shows how interconnected all the lives on this planet are. In AB I play and wonder the world. My instruments are my… Read more
Oblivia: Pleasure
With Annika and Timo, we have known each other for some twenty years, and I’ve seen the most of Oblivia’s performances. Now we work together for the first time. It has been fun! With us, on stage, fine musicians: composer-pianist Yiran Zhao, mezzosoprano Gabriela Lesch, and guitarist Thilo Ruck. Life’s unique moments, intense sensory impressions,… Read more
Herd
Two regional artists from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Krista Petäjäjärvi and Aura Seikkula, invited me and three other artists – Artor Jesus Inkerö, Harry Salmenniemi and Niina Vatanen –, as artist-experts to participate in The futures of aging project, together with eight “ordinary” experts. This was a joint project of the Committee for the… Read more
Firehead
Many have known it for ages, and some have even dared to admit the fact. Only now it has become mainstream but still there are people who refuse to accept it, while some pocket all the money there is to be made with it. Namely, if we burn all the fossil fuels there is in… Read more
