Somistepelote is a fictional ghost walk through urban space and queer history, an urban folk horror on the border between night and day. The work creates fictional urban enclaves through which it comments on violence and survival in urban space.

Somistepelote is also about appropriation: horror stories traditionally serve as a mirror of society’s shadow sides, but this time the perspective and voice are not that of the other, but of the other and the otherised themselves.

The site-specific spoken word piece will be performed on the historic cruising cliffs of Central Park.  

After the performance, you can stay for a while to continue the story of the work through ritual environmental art.

Pihla Lehtinen is a queer artist working with livery games and performing word art. She brings her background as a cultural researcher into her artistic practice and her work deals with recurring themes of otherness, power and resistance, as well as queer perspectives on nature and the horror genre.

Somistepelote is part of a pair of works exploring the spaces between Lehtinen’s work, the second half of which, the livery game art work Elimination, will be completed in 2025.

Performed by Pihla Lehtinen
Script by Pihla Lehtinen
Dramaturgy and direction by Juuso Kekkonen

The work is supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and Otto A. Malmi Endowment Fund

DATES
18.8. at 18:30
20.8. at 18:30
22.8. at 18:30
25.8. at 18:30
27.8. at 18:30
29.8. at 18:30

LOCATION
Central Park (with historic cruising cliffs)

DURATION
n. 75 min

LANGUAGE
Finnish

NOTE
Horror as a genre (no scares in the work), mentions of queerphobic violence.

ACCESSIBILITY
The work takes you on a walk through a rocky wooded area. The route is less than a kilometre long and stops can be made to sit down.

AGE RECOMMENDATION
18+

TICKETS
5-30€