Join us for the launch of SHAPE – a new website resource for Helsinki’s contemporary art landscape, a mapping of art spaces and public events across the city. Initiated by PUBLICS and Kohta, SHAPE (Spaces, Helsinki, Art, Projects, Events) highlights current public events, spaces, times and locations. Users and visitors can browse upcoming activities as well as find out more about their initiating organisations. SHAPE is organized around eight main categorizes of activity: Books, Events, Exhibitions, Festivals, Initiatives, Museums, Supports, and Workspaces.

The launch of SHAPE will take place on Saturday the 12th at the Teurastamo outside area and the program includes DJ/live-sets from Tuomas A. Laitinen & MYÖS collective, and live music by Frank Frank Frank.

Additionally, there will be a small finissage to celebrate the last day of among, within exhibition at Kohta. Earlier in the day, please join us at PUBLICS to experience a new window commission and solo show Nightfall / Videvik by Estonian artist Merike Estna.

Program at Teurastamo, next to Helsingin Kahvipaahtimo:

4–6pm
Artists Magdalena Åberg and Anna Tahkola at Kohta

4–5pm
Tuomas A. Laitinen will play a hybrid DJ/live-set that creates an amorphous symbiosis of East African electronic music, medieval tunes, and shapeshifting sound collages derived from Laitinen’s compositions.

Tuomas A. Laitinen is an artist who works with moving image, sound, glass, chemical and microbial processes, and algorithms to explore the entanglements of multispecies coexistence. Laitinen composes situations and installations that inquire into the porous interconnectedness of language, body, and matter within morphing ecosystems.

5–6pm
MYÖS presents: 12 Months of Pain!
This energetic duo will make your hips move and your heart pound through the magic of music. Expect hard beats, soft grooves and fun surprises.

MYÖS is a Helsinki based DIY collective, party platform and co-care network for genre-fluid electronic music DJs, VJs, producers, organizers, party lovers and allies of currently underrepresented actors in the local club scene, and anyone in favor of a safer space to party in.

6–7pm
Frank Frank Frank – a power trio that combines the deep existence of pop music, the force of human vocals and the magic of improvisation. The group has drawn influence from artists like Prince, Spice Girls and Björk.

Please note that Kohta can accommodate max. 10 people at a time.

Guests need to wear masks when inside and keep a safe distance to others at all times. Please stay at home if you have any symptoms of Covid-19.

Accessible toilets are located in Kellohalli main hallway.

Please see PUBLICS Events Principles here.

This event is being held as part of the Open Up, a project that has been co-funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe Programme.