28.6.2025

The third edition of the mini-festival Machines brings together a series of audiovisual performances that explore the tense interplay between machine and organism, control and liberation, order and chaos. This year’s program anchors itself in a provocative question: How can we interrupt systemic codes: mechanical labor, exploited bodies, and programmed behaviors, as acts of resistance and emancipation? Through malfunction, re-sampling, and remixing, the participating artists reprogram for disobedience, creating space for unruly, uncontrolled machines.

Program

17:00 – Opening speech

17:10 – Alsa Osala | Live music

17:40 – Hermanni Härmälä & Pyry Rämö | Performance

18:10 – Phan Nguyen & Trang Chung | Performance

19:00 – Enbo | Live music

19:40 – Soko Hwang | AV performance

20:20 – Abaris Moerae, Laura MRLS & Röd Mjölk | AV live performance

21:00 – Dmytro Bondariev | DJ set

21:40 – Iida Valmé | Performance

22:00 – Esa kaari | Live & DJ set

22:40 – Henia Nikkilä | Live music

23:20 – End

Light technician: Mikko Kaukonen

Sound Technician: Ilja Pippa

Poster: Aala Nyman

About Else

Else is an art collective engaging hybrid practices that draw from subcultures, underground movements, and minority cultures. Comprising artists, curators, and designers based in Helsinki, Else includes Soko Hwang, Laura Bestle Morales, Trang Chung, Aala Nyman, and Phan Nguyen.