AGF: kuu-tee listening sessions

What does it mean to listen at a time when there is so much information avalaible. And what does it mean to listen and to be heard? What kinds of voices are generated by dissent? Can we find common ground?

In 2024–25 Oulu Art Museum develops its programming around collaborative, durational exhibition productions. We will work together with AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti) and her kuu-tee listening sessions. We organise a total of eight sessions open to participants, which will culminate in an exhibition at the Oulu Art Museum.

The sessions are hosted by artist AGF and will include listening exercises, presentations, and workshops. In addition, each session will have a visiting artist and a theme. In 2024 we met four times and the visiting artists were Ajak Majok, Jessica Ekomane, Eija Ranta and Elle Kokkonen.

Please note that the language of these events is English. Informal interpretation is available in Finnish.

Community listening sessions for all ages can be attended with a museum ticket.  Each meeting lasts 1.5 hours during which we can also enjoy a topical tea together.

5. Circular session about language, translation, listening and spine

Session is hosted by AGF
Thu 13th of March
at 4.30 pm–6 pm
Satula space

In 2024 we have learned about listening. In public space, within us, outside, inside and how our bodies listen along us. In the first kuu-tee session for 2025 we hold a circular session about language, translation, listening and spine.

What is our common language? What knowledge do we bring to a space? Do we feel heard?

How do we deal with forms of micro-colonialism within us, our communities and ourselves, within our bodies and minds. Is adopting a dominant language a sacrifice? How to be open but stay strong? What is periphery and semi-periphery and how to live together in coexistence, how do we voice our voices within dominant cultures?

The session is about anti-colonial language, micro-colonialisms and intra-community hierarchies, musicality of language.

The session is based on a joint workshop, hosted by AGF and Lölä Florina Vlasenko at Taideturvapaikka on International Women’s Day March 8th, 2025.

Art Refuge – TaideTurvapaikka, is an artistic research and workshop project developed by Lölä Florina Vlasenko in 2023. Together with local artists from Oulu, Vlasenko has organised community-based workshops on art and cultural well-being at the Oulu refugee reception centre in Heikinharju. At the core of TaideTurvapaikka is common humaneness and peace, accessibility of art and cultural well-being.

TaideTurvapaikka on Instagram.

6. Collective listening & inward melting

Visiting artist: Lau Nau
Thu 15th of May
at 4.30 pm–6 pm
Satula space

Lau Nau, aka Laura Naukkarinen, is a composer and sound artist whose music moves on the boundaries of electroacoustic experimentation and songwriting. She has released 10 full-length albums, the latest of which are the band album “Aphrilis”, and “5 x 4”, which is composed with the Buchla 200 modular synthesizer. Lau Nau is known for her Jussi Award-winning film music and multi-channel sound installations and has actively performed around the world, including Super Deluxe in Tokyo, the Lab in San Francisco and Pioneer Works in New York. She leads a monthly gathering for sound and listening in Turku.

7. Collective listening

Visiting artist: pantea
Thu 28th of August
at 4.30 pm–6 pm
Satula space

Iranian, Barcelona based artist pantea is coming to Oulu Art Museum for listening session in August. As part of Khamoosh collective she will share their practice of collective listening, her ongoing phd research on collective listening and the collaboration of agf and pantea on rec-on.org

pantea (b. 1992, Tehran) is an artist interested in how sounds translate the unheard, ecological storytelling, and collaborative survival. Her work has incorporated creative writing, walking, performance, film, radio, and music. They are co-facilitating Khamoosh, a transdisciplinary community dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage, and co-directing Associació So in collaboration with Soundcamp Cooperative. They are a member of the Radio Web MACBA working group, and one half of the audiovisual design group Studio Informal. pantea is learning about socially-engaged practice and community-based work by exploring possibilities brought about by listening. She is passionate about wetlands and plants, and is currently studying a practice-based PhD studies in Music at St George’s, University of London.

Find more here: pantearm.github.io and rec-on.org/khamoosh.html