Mad House doors are open! You are warmly welcome to see the new space and spend a summerly evening with us on 13th of June at 16:00 onwards. "Climate Change and Utopias" tour performances will take place around the Teurastamo yard and there are food and drinks available in Teurastamo Street Food event. Come and bring your friends with! Changes in timetable are possible.

June 13, 2019 | Työpajankatu 2, yard & building 4, 00580 Helsinki

16:00 Mad House opens the doors

17:30 Reality Research Center: Utopia Consultation

Utopia Consultation is a performative service where the essence lies in the encounter. How to hear another person and how to be present to each other at the same reality? Utopia Consultation is a performative form of encounter between two or more people. The purpose of the consultation is to open up utopian perspectives and possibilities into one’s everyday life, identity or certain situation. Meeting place in the Teurastamo yard.

Consults: Talvikki Eerola ja Maria Santavuori

19:30 Juha Valkeapää & Juhani Liimatainen: Bird Concert

Sound artists Juhani Liimatainen and Juha Valkeapää create a scenery of everyday and mythological birds, like sparrow, great tit, starling, pigeon, seagull, swan, eagle owl, raven, loon, cuckoo, phoenix, and Tux penguin. Jussi plays synthesizers, Juha his voice, and they talk a bit, too. And they dress in feathers. The concert lasts 30-40 minutes and it will take place on the outdoor stage.

21:00 kallio manninen at Mad House

The artist duo kallio manninen is inspired by cyber theories and clubbing culture. Technology intervened with bodies create unexpected sights of future. The performance takes place in Mad House.

Working group: Antti-Juhani Manninen & Jari Kallio

Oblivia: The Rave at Mad House

Performance company Oblivia’s installation The Rave asks how to make a performance and tour with it sustainably in the age of ecological crisis. The performance was originally performed in a with space in Helsinki and simultaneously live streamed in Berlin, Melbourne and Auckland. The installation displays the recording of the performance. Installed in Mad House.