SuomiOBLIVIA: 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 the Mustarinda residency in December 2024, the Tree Concert became a performance with electronic and human sound and moving images of trees. I use my own human voice, Jussi plays synthesizers, and together we have filmed video clips from which I have compiled the tree video. Because we are Finnish, the winter part of… 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
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
Bakehouse
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
