Text Laboratory #2 will take place at Tekstin talo from July 14 to August 24, with its outcomes presented as part of the Runokuu Festival program on Wednesday, August 20.
Entry with a €9 day ticket or a €29 festival pass.
Day tickets available here.
Festival pass available here.
The Text Laboratory is a residency project at Tekstin talo focused on experimental approaches to text culture. Its aim is to explore and develop new ways of making text-based art and literature accessible and experiential for audiences.
The following artists working with text were selected for the second edition of the Text Laboratory:
– Heu Hsu (Taiwan), sound artist and writer
– Silja Kejonen, poet and contemporary artist
– Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy (Australia/Greece), theatre artist and curator
– Robert B. Lisek (Poland/Germany), visual artist, mathematician, and composer
– Vili Pääkkö, sound designer
– Aliha Thalien (France), director, writer, and video artist
– Ofem Ubi (Nigeria), poet and visual artist
– Asiya Wadud (USA), poet
The artists’ processes are supported by theatre director and facilitator Maiju Tainio, writer, researcher, and musician Matti Kangaskoski, and project coordinator Heidi Backström. The project is funded by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.
Text Laboratory #2 will bring installations to many corners of the House of Text on Wednesday, August 20th as part of the Runokuu festival! In the building’s Pp. bookstore and in the 4th and 6th floor, you can experience installations combining text, sound and material from the Text Laboratory’s resident artists until the evening. All installations are multilingual or in English.
✨ Ink – Listening to the bookshelf
⚡ Heu Hsu (Taiwan)
⏰ starts at 12
📍 Pp. bookshop (1st floor)
✨ TBTIAG
⚡ Aliha Thalien (France)
⏰ starts at 16
📍 4th floor
✨ Collage
⚡Ofem Ubi (Nigeria)
⏰ starts at 16
📍 Classroom (4th floor)
✨ body double in blue, 15 minutes
⚡ Asiya Wadud (United States)
⏰ starts at 16
📍 Empty office (4th floor)
✨ 73X7
⚡ Robert B. Lisek
⏰ starts at 16
📍 Parvisali (6th floor)
More information about the installations here.
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✨ TEXTLAB#2: Performance evening
⏰ klo 19-21
📍 Parvisali (6. Kerros)
Come experience the harvest of the Text Laboratory #2 residency as part of Runokuu festival 2025! The evening will include performances by four residencets and a Q&A with the artists. The Q&A will be moderated by one of the project’s facilitator, writer Matti Kangaskoski.
Includes performances
You have an hour-war and shorts / Sinulla on tunti- sota ja shortsit (Silja Kejonen ja Outi Vuoriranta)
summer (Vili Aarre)
Paper Tone (Heu Hsu)
73X7 (Robert B. Lisek)