OTHERWISE - MUUN VIISAUTTA gallery festival

​OtherWise / Muun Viisautta gallery festival
Wed-Sun 7.–11.9.2022 
Yö Galleria, Lönnrotinkatu 33, Helsinki
Wed–Fri 14-20, Sat 12–20, Sun 12–17

Gallery festival OtherWise / Muun viisautta is a joint exhibition of eleven performance artists combining installations, performances, lectures, conversations and a celebration of their newly published book, Otherwise-Muun Viisautta. 

The book is a gathering of eleven artistic perspectives, and art practices. It uncovers eleven different kinds of entanglements with the world and showcases eleven artistic ways to interact, to inhabit and move with(in) our critical times and catastrophic places. For five days the writings and pictures in the book spread through the space as installations, performances, discussions and performative gestures. The festival wildly and seriously celebrates the power of artistic thought and action: Art lives on, leaves traces, takes action, works and observes, touches, reaches and keeps on building a more multi-sensory and multilingual world. 

This festival is an invitation to come and spend some time with us and our book, join crucial artistic/ethical conversations and take part in the celebration of Other’s wisdom.

 

Artists: Sonja Jokiniemi, Essi Kausalainen, Heli Keskikallio, Ella-Noora Koikkalainen, Taru Koski, Jenni Laiti, Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larrachea, Wilhelmina Ojanen, Maarit Rankanen, Orfee Schuijt, Soile Voima

Curating team: Toisinajattelijat-collective (Heli Keskikallio, Taru Koski, Soile Voima)

Conversations / lecture: Terike Haapoja and Jenni Laiti, Thomas Nail

 

The performances, installations and lectures are open to everyone and free of charge.

During the festival you can also buy our book OtherWise / Muun viisautta for 20€.

 

Aikataulu:

Wednesday 7.9.

14:00 Installation open

18:00-20:00 Conversation between artists Terike Haapoja ja Jenni Laiti: “On Belonging” (language Finnish)

20:00-22:00 Book launching party

 

Thursday 8.9.

14:00 Installation open

19:00 Evening of sound performances:

Jenni Laiti: Luondduláhka olbmuid láhkan / Luonnon laki ihmisten laiksi 

Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larrachea: Gravitational dance

Taru Koski and Heli Keskikallio: Sound installation

 

Friday 9.9.

14:00 Installation open

18:00 Evening of performances:

Wilhelmina Ojanen: The mountain, again

Soile Voima: Clay conversations

 

Saturday 10.9.

12:00 Installation open

18:00 Lecture by philosopher Thomas Nail: “Materialist Cosmology and the Earthbound Ethics of Expenditure” (language English)

 

Sunday 11.9.

12:00 Installation open

15:00 Performance by Maarit Rankanen: Avoimena sulkeutunut -harjoitus tilan tunnusta

 

In collaboration with: Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Center, City of Helsinki, Kriittinen Korkeakoulu, Yö Galleria

Yö galleria, Lönnrotinkatu 33, Helsinki
Wheelchair ​​accessible entrance through the courtyard.