Light House: Haliz Yosef, ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, Salla Valle, and Viljami Nissi & Aeon Lux
Light House is Mad House and Reality Research Center's spring performance event. It takes place in May at Mad House's Parvisali stage
The two-day event features four different works by Haliz Yosef, ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, Salla Valle, and Viljami Nissi & Aeon Lux.
Light House hosts audiences with soft eyes, curious hearts, and quiet, burning desires. It is a place of labyrinths and dreams that reveals lost family heirlooms. A place for our soft parts, that might need protecting. Here people, places, and buildings transformed into pearls, and friends find each other again. Light House is a place for round, rare, and radiant things.
Programme
Friday, May 15, 7:00 p.m.
ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS: Soft Animal
Haliz Yosef: Images sparked by the fire you sit next to
Saturday, May 16, 7:00 p.m.
Salla Valle: The Pearl of Herttoniemi
Viljami Nissi & Aeon Lux: COMEBACK (Could I get salmonella from this too?)
Bio
Haliz Yosef’s artistic practice focuses on exploring memory, diasporic identity, animism, and ontological phenomena through installation, sound, sculpture, and moving image. She examines how stories are embedded in materials, spaces, and bodies.
Yosefia is fascinated by the romanticism of materials, and she approaches them with a researcher’s curiosity, asking why clay, metal, wood, or glass behave the way they do. In many of her installation-based works, she conceals sound compositions within sculptural forms. The objects become vessels: their surfaces vibrate and sing.
Stories play a central role in her work. A story becomes an object. An object becomes a tale.
ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS is Chris Gylee and Aslan, and they have been living and making art together for almost 16 years now. In 2023, they moved from Berlin and made a new home in Outokumpu, in North Karelia. They tell stories about Queer lives and Queer futures in rurality through a speculative-fiction lens, often using the Queer constructed language Damiá as an artistic tool.
Salla Valle is a Helsinki-based visual and performance artist who studied art at the Kankaanpää Art School and the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Valle is interested in the political and poetic dimensions of everyday phenomena. Her works take shape in many different forms: as texts, images, spaces, and situations.
Viljami Nissi is a Helsinki-based visual artist and retired performance artist. Nissi’s practice is inspired by the concept of homosion: homosexuality as an erosive force, with the natural power to shpae and wear down its surroundings. Where erosion wears away the earth’s crust, homosion infiltrates spaces, concepts, bodies, and minds.
Aeon Lux is a visual and performance artist and esoteric practitioner based in Seinäjoki. Their performances explore sexuality, power, and ritual. Lux’s work is characterized by humor and by combining spiritual and erotic imagery. For Lux, performance art is a way of living, and their drive to perform is rooted in a youthful dream of becoming a pop star.
Photo: Kiia Beilinsson
SCHEDULE
Friday, May 15, 7:00p.m.
ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS
Haliz Yosef
Saturday, May 16, 7:00 p.m.
Salla Valle
Viljami Nissi & Aeon Lux
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
