Somistepelote
Pihla Lehtinen
Somistepelote is a fictional ghost walk through urban space and queer history - urban folk horror on the border between night and fact. The work creates fictional urban legends through which it comments on violence and survival in urban space.
Somistepelote is also about reclaiming: horror stories traditionally serve as a mirror of society's shadow sides, but this time the perspective and voice are not that of the othering, but of the other and the othered themselves.
The site-specific spoken word piece will be performed on the historic cruising cliffs of Central Park.
After the performance, you can stay for a while to continue the story of the work through ritual environmental art.
Pihla Lehtinen is a queer artist working with larp and spoken word. She integrates her background as a cultural researcher into her artistic practice and her work deals with recurring themes of otherness, power and resistance, as well as queer perspectives on nature and the horror genre.
Somistepelote is part of a pair of works exploring the spaces between, the second half of which, larp-series Removal, will perimiere 2025.
Performed by Pihla Lehtinen
Script by Pihla Lehtinen
Dramaturgy and direction by Juuso Kekkonen
The work is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Otto A. Malmi Endowment Fund
Photo by Väinä Räsänen
DATES
18.8. at 18:30
20.8. at 18:30
22.8. at 18:30
25.8. at 18:30
27.8. at 18:30
29.8. at 18:30
PLACE
Central Park, Laakson kalliot
Meeting place on map
You can find the place by following the path shown in the picture. The meeting point is the stone building shown on the map.
DURATION
n. 75 min
LANGUAGE
Finnish
NOTE
Horror as a genre (no scares in the work), mentions of queerphobic violence.
ACCESSIBILITY
The work takes you on a walk through a rocky wooded area. The route is less than a kilometre long and stops can be made to sit down.
AGE RECOMMENDATION
18+
TICKETS
5-30€