Amado Peña is a poet, translator, and transmedia artist. With a background in Hispanic Language and Literature and a specialization in Mexican literature in Indigenous languages, his practice moves across poetry, sculpture, performance, sound, and culinary research. Drawing on scientific literature and the study of vernacular technologies, he explores the relationships between language, territory, materiality, and ecological memory.

Daniel Malpikka is a Mexican-Finnish poet, designer, and transmedia artist based in Helsinki. His transdisciplinary practice explores the intersections of literature, language, sound, and digital media, operating at the crossroads of poetry, performance, and installation to expand writing beyond the page. He has developed projects across Europe, the Nordic region, and Mexico, presenting at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki and Lettrétage in Berlin.

K’U’UM COLLECTIVE operates as an independent platform for exploring syncretism, communal practices, and anarchist structures. K’u’um runs a writers-run kitchen and curates a series of literary-based projects that emphasize collective creation, radical thought, and alternative modes of cultural production. K’u’um is currently supported by Niilo Helander Foundation.

Mathias Rosenlund (b. 1981) is a Finland-Swedish writer, librarian and visual artist. He has published three novels and three collections of poetry. Social and class issues are often central to Rosenlund’s writing, as is the search for ways to highlight the working-class perspective within the wider society and to link these perspectives to artistic practice. Over the past year, his main focus has been on developing his interest in photography and visual art, with a particular fondness for ink drawings.

Singer Ellen Almgren and pianist Olov “Klyv-Olle” Lindroth present a heartfelt duo performance in which ballads, original compositions and improvisation are set against a folk music backdrop. Ellen Almgren writes songs that give space to both everyday observations and existential reflections, drawing inspiration from the honest tone of folk songs and the imaginative richness of jazz. Olov “Klyv-Olle” Lindroth, a native of Vindel, is one of Sweden’s few dedicated folk pianists and has made a name for himself through his responsive, lively and distinctive playing. With great sensitivity and improvisational freedom, he paints expressive musical landscapes on the pedal organ and the piano. Ellen and Olov met whilst studying at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and, over the years, have developed a rapport that feels almost telepathic.

Milla Toukkari is a 40-year-old visual artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki in 2015. Toukkari has exhibited works widely around Finland and participated in international residencies in, among other places, Lithuania, Russia, and the United States. Toukkari’s work typically takes the form of installations, books, collages, and printed images. In terms of content, the focus is on the relationship between text and image, as well as art as a way of structuring reality. In recent years, the emphasis in her artistic production has begun to shift toward more immaterial art forms. The artist runs long-distance races and works as a registrar at an art museum.

Naturally, one’s performance art is ordered in a chronological manner, yet the viewer may not be aware of those which took place before it.

The works Maurice does often do not carry a title. (And that’s no “untitled” which he considers a title too) He tends to think that a name can draw away the attention from what the piece is (or maybe could be) – just itself. Although his works are performative, he does seem to consider himself a sculptor, or rather, remaining with a sculptural attitude.

Malgomaj are a Umeå-based hard rock trio with roots in Purmo, Lycksele and Vilhelmina. Beneath the band’s asbestos-clad façade of distortion and heavy riffs, one finds big-flowered blues in shades of brown and orange, psychedelic folk melodies and a groove that stirs up the deepest layer of dust in the soul’s crawl space. 

With lyrics in Swedish, Malgomaj puts into words the reality of Eastern and Western Bothnia, featuring pike gods and whale wonders, space journeys along road 365 and hopeless rebellions against the empire’s steel-eating anthropophages. Running through it all is a trail of cheerful melancholy. Malgomaj are currently promoting their debut album “Valfiskens buk” on Ostron Records.

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I paint in acrylics. The underlying theme in my art is empathy and, more broadly, an understanding of others. My paintings are often perceived as both humorous and melancholic. I enjoy black humour. My approach to my work, however, is very direct and, in the actual act of painting, focuses on colour and form.

Iida Valkonen has worked in drawing for several years, which is reflected both in her way of working and in the material choices of her works. The majority of her output focuses on exploring the themes of landscape, movement, repetition, and the rhythm that emerges from it, through the means of drawing. In addition to drawing, Valkonen also makes use of moving image, photography, and spatial elements in her practice.

Valkonen graduated as a visual artist from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Printmaking, in 2016. She has also completed a Master of Arts degree at Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, in the Department of Art Education. Valkonen is a member of the Finnish Printmakers Association, MUU ry, the Helsinki Artists’ Association, and Kuopion kuvataiteilijat ry Ars Libera.