1.11. — 23.11.2025

RE-BIRTH is an immersive 40-channel sound and video installation that breathes, moves, and transforms. The work fills MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre with layered sound, generative video art, and spatial dramaturgy. You are part of the work—you are art.

RE-BIRTH combines a breathing choir, piano, violins, and monologues based on diary entries. The sound material unfolds into space through a network of 40 speakers, with close-miking revealing micro-sounds and subtle nuances of breath. Listening is embodied, intimate, and alive in time.

The work is built on spatial rhythm—time becomes space, sound becomes movement, and the listener becomes a participant. Monologues based on diary entries invite presence and awakening: how can body, space, and listening bring us back to the present moment?

RE-BIRTH completes Autio’s five-part RE-series (Re-Ditus, Re-Verb, Re-Floris, Re-Sound), which has created spaces for collective listening in museums and galleries throughout Finland.

Performances and collaborations

On the opening day (Saturday 1 Nov), Riikka Voutilainen’s border-dissolving dance launches the work at 13:00.

At the end of the exhibition (Friday 21 Nov, 19:00 & Saturday 22 Nov, 15:00) sound meets movement in collaboration with dance artist Kati Korosuo and the Young Dancers group.

The space is also crossed by the polyphonic Re-Ditus choir work: bodies and voices work as autonomous and collective elements in the space. Through these dialogues, a new collective space for breath and presence is formed.

Jaakko Autio is a Finnish multidisciplinary sound artist and initiator, known for his participatory, polyphonic works and experimental installations. He works at the intersection of sound, space, and body, emphasizing experience, community, and radical empathy.

Autio was born in Ylivieska and spent his childhood in Senegal, which has influenced his worldview and artistic approaches. He currently works in Toijala, utilizing ecological and participatory art forms such as multi-layered choir pieces, site-specific installation art, and real-time EEG interaction.

His works have been presented in museums, galleries, and festivals in Finland and internationally. Autio is trained as a designer of theater and film sound (Metropolia, University of the Arts Helsinki). Breathing, awareness, and humanity are central to his artistic practice—in space and in the moment. www.jaakkoautio.com