AGF: kuu-tee listening sessions

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. Between 2024 and 2025, 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.

What does it mean to listen in a time when there is a variety of information on the go? 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 we met four times and the visiting artists were Ajak Majok, Jessica Ekomane, Eija Ranta and Elle Kokkonen. In 2025, we will meet in four sessions and the visiting artists will be announced first for spring term and later for autumn. Please note that the language of these events is English.

Community listening sessions for all ages can be attended with a museum ticket. Informal interpretation is available in Finnish. 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.