Lux Kanneltalo

Event Introduction

Note: The works will be on view on Thursday 9.1. from 13-22.

Pietu Pietiäinen & Juha Valkeapää (FI): Totuus

Totuus is an oracle-like entity that people visit to hear the truth. To enter the oracle’s room, visitors must answer the question: What is the truth? The answer is typed into a computer in any language. We learn that truth is relative.

Totuus is an interactive installation where visitors share their truths with the oracle. A low computer voice reads aloud the truths people have written in a random order. A projected beam of light reacts to the voice, becoming both the oracle’s eye and mouth.

The installation draws inspiration from oracle legends and from the Archangel Gabriel’s horn, which he blows on Judgment Day. The oracle’s cone-shaped mouth also resembles a geometric figure named after the same legend, “Gabriel’s Horn,” known as a mathematical paradox with infinite surface area but finite volume. Other sources of inspiration include the mysterious marble well cover in Rome, La Bocca della Verità (The Mouth of Truth), and Anthony McCall’s Pure Sculpture works.

Totuus is a speaking, moving mouth or eye that forms a deep, hypnotic, three-dimensional tunnel in a dark space filled with theatrical smoke. Stepping into the center of the light cone – the oracle’s mouth or eye – the visitor hears not just one truth but multiple truths shared by previous visitors.

Pietu Pietiäinen is a lighting and video designer and artist who primarily works as a designer for stage productions and in the music industry. He also works in the field of contemporary art, creating solutions for audiovisual installations in museums, galleries, and exhibitions worldwide. Pietiäinen lives and works in Helsinki and Kotka.

Juha Valkeapää is a sound artist and performance creator. Over his 30-year career, he has created various forms of performances, installations, radio productions, and soundscapes around the world. His art is centered on sound, presence, playfulness, improvisation, and live contact with the audience. Valkeapää lives in Helsinki.

Olli-Pekka Tennilä (FI): Apopteoosi I – fragments to the outside

Olli-Pekka Tennilä’s textual public facade projection, exploring fragmentary poetics, investigates the connections between epigram, interior space, mental states, external space, and writing.

Olli-Pekka Tennilä is a poet from Jyväskylä, known for his dense, fragmentary form of language. Tennilä has participated in numerous projects combining various art forms and sciences, in collaboration with IC-98 and various universities. He is currently exploring connections between definitions of life, genetic information, and the concept of writing.

His work Yksinkeltainen on kaksinkeltaista won the Runeberg Prize in Literature.

Technical consultancy and cooperation: Elisa Hillgen

Lux Kanneltalo is created by the Finnish Light Art Society FLASH.
Curator: Kirsi Pitkänen

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