Mad House goes Outsider Art Festival!
Exciting news! You may have already glimpsed that Mad House is co-producing the Outsider Art Festival's performing arts programme!
"The second edition of the OAF will give a voice to outsider artists by presenting a compelling mix of music, visual arts, performing arts, films and life stories. OAF promotes accessibility and equality in the arts by bringing together traditional art audiences and marginalised artists. OAF will highlight the skills of specific groups and present a new production model that will allow equal participation and new jobs for specific groups in the events sector. The target for 2022 is to employ 100 people in the arts and culture sector. "
For us at Mad House, it is important to be involved in promoting equality and diversity in the arts. It's important to invite large audiences into the margins of the arts, and we are ready to work towards this. The OAF's performing arts programme is curated in an imaginative way, and we can't wait for the August festival! Check out the full programme at the link below: https://outsiderart.fi/ohjelma-2022/
OAF Performing Arts
The festival's performing arts are a multifaceted bundle that invites you into different performance spaces. There will be circus performances at Satamata, humorous social media translations, colourful imaginary worlds and relaxed community singing. All performances are free of charge.
Kreetta Astala and Siiri Lehtiö: Remote (2022)
Remote by Kreetta Astala and Siiri Lehtiö is a contemporary circus show premiering at the OAF festival. Astala and Lehtiö's first joint performance deals with control and its loss, power and insecurity with a comic twist. In the end, we see what happens to a circus show when outside forces start to interfere in the middle of everything and a normal circus show enters a world of madcap absurdity, where it is certain that nothing is certain.
Place: the Central Library Oodi, 3rd floor, Fairytale Carpet
Performance time: su 14.8.2022 at 14.00
Panu "Prince" Palm: Prince Turns Everything Around
In the Prince Translates Everything project, the artist performs kilos of translation songs and "shows his tongue" to the music and entertainment business that exploits artists and the surface film that covers up its inefficiencies. Prince comments on the phenomena of contemporary culture with his aggressive voice and gestures, and at the same time with the disarming presence of his own body.
The venue and time of the performance will be announced later.
Satu and Maria Tani: Breathing reef (2019-2022)
Satu and Maria Tani are both partners and siblings, whose work Breathing Reef (2019-2022) is a continuation of childhood games. "In the games, we created our own worlds with props and entertained ourselves for hours. The roles gave each of us the security to talk as we pleased." The Breathing Reef will be shown during the festival both as a performance and as part of a visual arts group exhibition at HAM.
Place: the Helsinki Art Museum HAM Kulma
Performance date: Fri 12.8.2022 at 14.00 (invitation only)
A performance time open to the public will be added later.
To the artist profile page
Jussi Sinkkonen: You are the karaoke star! (2021)
Karaoke star is you! or Karaoke karjalakse is a karaoke programme in Karelian. The performance features new and old songs in Karelian performed by the singers and the audience. The performance was completed in 2021 as part of the Better Pajot project, which promotes the status of the Karelian language and culture.
Venue: the Music Centre Media Wall
Performance date: Fri 12.8.2022 at 17.00
OAF X Karaoke karjalakse X Veneh film on the events page
The programme will be specified later.
12.-21.8.2022
