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Soma Oneiroi Soma Oneiroi “Feeling around for the organism” Since 2016, one strand of Tuomas A. Laitinen’s artistic practice has been revolving around other-than-human minds, particularly through octopuses. Based on recorded cephalopod’s brain waves, Laitinen makes a new hybrid artwork that engages with octopus dreams across a single-channel short film, an artist’s book and a music soundtrack, to investigate topics of ecology, mythologies and symbiotic coexistence. Date: 2024-26 Producer: PALO In cooperation with: the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Travelling Exhibition: Pioneer Works NYC (2026), Taidehalli Helsinki and Radius Delft (2027). Browse other productions: […]Read More…

5, 50, 100 Years from Now 5, 50, 100 Years from Now “Our common goal is to move towards the stars, because they are above us. Hope is in the stars”. Petrol stations are a good standpoint to observe the future in an era of resource-based conflict and global environmental crisis. 5, 50, 100 Years from Now is a short experimental video-essay by Anu Pennanen in which Neste’s petrol-station customers open up their wild reflections on what they imagine the future will look like seen from the Helsinki gas station window: the development of transport and technology and climate change, colony on Mars, human consciousness replaced by machines, street sides heated by burning barrels of rubbish, or information giants supplanting nation states. The video weaves together people’s imagination, the circulation of cars and the filling of petrol tanks, and the endlessly rotating fossil economy’s movement associated with Maurice Ravel’s BOLERO. Date: 2023 Producer: PALO In cooperation with: AVEK / Milla Moilanen – Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture – PUBLICS Helsinki – Creative Europe. Exhibitions: PUBLICS Helsinki, Composite Melbourne, and the NiMAC Art Center in Nicosia. Curators: Paul O’Neill & Stéphane Querrec. Public collections: KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Jenny […]Read More…

The Book of Reconciliation The Book of Reconciliation “Feeling thankful that I am still breathing”. THE BOOK OF RECONCILIATION is an experimental animation work by Oscar Chan Yik Long considering relationships between somatisation and the altering or obliteration of Hong-Kong’s memory, through the lens of queer narrative. Since departing for exile in Finland in 2019, Oscar Chan has suffered from somatic disorders: his stomach, heart, liver, and lungs are dysfunctional. By subverting the tradition of the literati, who used ink and brush in calligraphy and landscape painting, Oscar narrates the stories of his own Organs reckoning with political revisionism and its physical consequences, and ultimately longing for reconciliation. Date: 2024 Producer: PALO Exhibition: PF25 Geneva. Curator: Angelika Li (dates tba) Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Mascu-Fuck Mascu-Fuck “Mascu fuck, qu’est ce que c’est?” A hybrid performance in which Moe Mustafa gets to do what he always wanted to: belly dance. Growing up gay in a hyper heteronormative working-class family in Jordan, he was the target of other people’s attention, a negative attention. He wasn’t “masculine” enough. Now, Moe feels it is time to fuck with the hyper-masculine environment. Using his own life as raw material, Moe subverts belly dance and tells us about how shame of being Gay is born – and overcome. Date: 2023 Co-Producer: PALO In cooperation with: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. With support of: Saari Residence (Kone Foundation), the City of Helsinki, TAIKE The Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Minä Minä “What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life?” This is with such premise that Anu Pennanen started her film shot in Espoo. But it went deeper. I (Minä) is a short film about unfulfilled desire, generic urban internalised conformity, and the archaic space of the primitive. Written by Stéphane Querrec, played by actress Terhi Suorlahti, it also features unmissable interpretations by Ritva Oksanen and Elina Knihtilä, and a must-listen original soundtrack by Vladislav Delay (Warp). Date: 2022 Producer: PALO In cooperation with: Yle Teema Finnish television channel – SES The Finnish Film Foundation – AVEK The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture. In association with: Linnamo Foundation – The Finnish Cultural Foundation – TAIKE The Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the Jyväskylä Art Museum. Screenings: Espoo Ciné Film Festival, HIFF Film Festival Helsinki, Pune Film Festival India, 30° Ningbo Short Film Festival, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. Watch the film here. Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Available Rooms Available Rooms “Meet anger with Love”. In 2021 the renowned photographer Heidi Piiroinen started a personal exploration of suppressed emotions of entrapment, violence, low self-esteem, aggressiveness, and longing for transformation. “What traits did I see in the women and men around me in my childhood that informed my beliefs? Can we rewrite what a woman is supposed to be?” While Piiroinen’s own self is the catalyst, she invites a group of women suffering from inner ill-being and violence to create new hybrid audiovisual vocabularies to express emotional wounds. The result is a series of audiovisual works for an upcoming monographic exhibition at the Rauma Art Museum – curator Heta Kaisto. Date: 2024-25 Producer: PALO In cooperation with: Rauman taidemuseo. Curator: Heta Kaisto With support of: AVEK, TAIKE, Kordellin Foundation, Oscar Öflund Foundation, Jokes Säätiö, Finnfoto, Filmverkstaden Residency Vaasa, WSOY Literary Foundation, Patricia Seppälä Foundation. Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Splinters Splinters “I claim queerness as a resistance to systems that weren’t made with me in mind”. A series of sculptures and performances experimenting with woodcarving, empathy, and queer experience. Coming from the performance drag scene, Angel engages with the central theme of “wound” by making an ensemble of wearable wood adornments as a metaphor to explore the ongoing trauma of living in a society that disavows one’s authentic self if one is not conventional. The spatial wood sculptures, on the other hand, experiment with the theme of “resistance” of the wood, occupying spaces that are usually overlooked. Date: 2024-25 Producer: PALO With support of: Kone Foundation. Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Wind As Context Wind As Context “Why can’t we see an equivalence between all forms of life, where others would see the lack of life?” Winds can’t be captured: never making the same movement twice, wind is a constant improviser and player of landscapes. ‘wind as context’ is an audiovisual artwork by Antye Greie-Ripatti – aka AGF – exploring matter, wind movement and the limits of Capitalocene while addressing these philosophical issues. It utilises real-time image production with Self Organising Maps – known as SOM or Kohonen maps – in order to script different wind scales and regimes. As such, SOM are unsupervised machine learning algorithm, echoing the unpredictable nature of the wind and “collaborating” with it. The artist also deploys acoustic elements such as field sound recordings, and sound generation, including with her own body in the landscape. This experimental approach is to AGF the equivalent of an Audiovisual Calligraphy. Date: 2024-2025 Producer: PALO With support of: AVEK Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Genre Genre “Who writes the “home” script?” With videos, drawing and collages, Artor Jesus Inkerö explored pre-organised structures that lie within foundational, seemingly benign yet imperceptible architectural and domestic forces that shape society and identities towards the heteronormative nuclear family. Inkerö used mimicry and parody to satirise and recapture the notion of “home” from the transgressive potential of being queer. Date: 2021 Producer: PALO With support from: AVEK Audiovisual Culture- KONE Foundation. In cooperation with: Wäinö Aaltonen Turku City Art Museum. Exhibition: WAM’s theme exhibition “Spectrum”. Curator Anna Perälä. The text in the catalogue in signed by Miiko Toiviainen. Browse other productions: […]Read More…

Tristan and Isolde Aro Tristan and Isolde Aro “You made me whole. You made me find my purpose. I fell in love with you the second I held you in my arms. You were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen”. One universal thing that everyone has in common: romantic love. But what if you don’t feel that way about anybody? “Tristan and Isolde Aro ” is a multidisciplinary research project that explores amatonormativity. Artist Pinja Valja makes the film adaptation of the mother of love stories, Tristan and Isolde, and give it another twist. In the original story, the two mistakenly drink a love potion prepared for the king, fall deeply in love, and Tristan finds himself unable to start life anew without her. To the artist, Tristan and Isolde is about two figures who were never meant to be in love and were subjugated to. In the film, Valja foregrounds Tristan and Isolde’s whole spectrum of aromantic experiences and nuances, from no romantic attraction at all to varying levels and kinds of romantic feelings.  The objective is to put Love as the norm into question. Date: 2024-2025 Producer: PALO With the support of: AVEK – Kehittämö (Shortlist) […]Read More…