SuomiBakehouse
Once the firm had bakehouses for its employees’ use. At the Festival Norpas Bakehouse one can bake rye bread with baker Vuokko Nuorteva’s sourdough that originates from the 18th century, while Islaja & Lau Nau’s music accompanies the fermentation. One finds all the equipment needed on the spot. One needs only time – Vuokko’s rye sourdough… Read more
Water Concert
Water Concert is a collaboration between sound artists Juha Valkeapää and Juhani Liimatainen, and lighting and video artist Pietu Pietiäinen. Starting point: All the water on Earth has been here always, for 4,5 billion years. Water connects everything: people to people and to other living and non-living creatures. Everything is water and from water. In… Read more
Life as we know it
The starting point for the performance Life as we know it by Maija Hirvanen and Juha Valkeapää has been in imagining directions, to which life could go or where it would be desired to go. A small part of this process has been selected to be cultivated into a stage performance. The imagined directions of… Read more
Silent Death
A quiet death can mean a merciful death: I want to die after a good and fulfilling life, peacefully. In reality, death often occurs too hard, too painfully, too loud, too early or too late. A quiet death can also be understood as dying secretly, without nobody noticing. Or in undistinguished way. Or it can… Read more
The Truth
The Truth is a live audio-visual installation, with video artist Pietu Pietiäinen. It is a sort of oracle and mouth of truth. The truths are from people who come to visit the work. We don’t own the truth. We built the first version at Ärjä Art Festival on Ärjänsaari, Kajaani, 2–4 August, 2019. The second… Read more
Juha Biitsillä
The author trio traveled to Pori for August. They asked each other, where do you come from. I come from my father’s Ray-Ban’s. My mother’s arthritis and earrings. Alcoholism and apple slices cut with knife. Tarting up and male image one doesn’t identify oneself with. Juha Biitsillä (Juha on/with Biitsi) is the first collaboration between artist… Read more
Pelko/Fear
Pelko/Fear was a collaboration with musician Taito Hoffrén. Taito passed away on 18 October, 2024. Rest in peace, dear friend. As the title suggests, Pelko/Fear was a performance about fear. Fears unite people, passing social classes. The performance moved from detail to general, from local to global, from small to big; we talked about personal… Read more
Bird Concert
Together with sound artist Juhani Liimatainen, we create a scenery of everyday and mythological birds, like sparrow, great tit, starling, pigeon, seagull, swan, eagle owl, raven, loon, cuckoo, phoenix, and Tux penguin. Jussi plays synthesizers, me my voice, and we talk a bit, too. And we dress in feathers. The concert lasts 30-40 minutes. The… Read more
Hospital Symphonies
Hospital Symphonies is a vocal piece, that is based on wordless human voice and participation. It is part of Heidi Fast’s artistic doctoral dissertation for Aalto University’s Department of Arts. The work was realised with the psychiatric dept. of HYKS Helsinki Hospital. Vocal artist-researcher Fast invited eight people, who had been given therapy at HYKS Psykiatria,… Read more
Private Dancer
Performing in WAUHAUS‘ Private Dancer. Private Dancer invites the audience to listen, to observe and to engage in fantasies. It is an intimate experience in a shared space. It is a performance offered simultaneously for one and for many. Private Dancer builds and deconstructs the borderline between private and public using sound. Headphones worn by the audience… Read more
