• Design: Circus Lumineszenz (AUT)
• Location: Kauppurienaukio
• In collaboration: Valkea Shopping Centre

The passage of infinite reflections "Ereignishorizont // Event Horizon" proposes the expansion of a transit area by the use of light; new dimensions become visible when the light interacts with the facets of a system designed to deceive the senses. What was apparent might not be there. What we think may not exist, now seems real and it is displayed in front of us. An endless game of shapes that twist our perception of space-time continuum.

• Design: Belenos Group of Arts
• Location: Kirkkokatu 9
• In collaboration: LähiTapiola Pohjoinen

Moving light installation Aurora brings the northern solar winds to life. In the work, the shades of the northern lights shine in the wings of the fantastical performers that arise in a blaze after dark. The light performance among the audience stops the viewer for a while, offering a thrilling experience of beautiful lights and colours carried out by charming light characters.

• Design: 3rd year adult students of visual arts from Oulu Academy Aiku group
• Location: Hupisaaret Park

Kurkistus (“the Peek”) is a three-dimensional ensemble in which metal and glass meet. The central theme of the work is cooperation and people coming together. Even though we are individuals, we are here together. One can peek inside the work and see the gathering of different individuals, as in a shared world. Cooperation brings creativity and wellness, but it can also be difficult. Communal and unifying factors are preconditions for the survival of all of us. Time goes by – you choose how to use it.

• Design: Niko Tiainen
• Location: Hupisaaret Park, the duck pond

The visuals for the work have been created from algorithm-based codes which have then been edited into a video installation lasting 7 minutes and 56 seconds.

The word “translucens” is latin for translucent, something one can feel but also something that is not there. The work uses a non-linear storytelling method, mixing in the Kuleshov effect in which different pictures and videoclips are combined and the actual whole story is formed in the viewer’s mind. This kind of form slightly resembles the structure of REM sleep. In a classical sense, it could be compared to an impromptu composition technique, in which short improvised tunes are ultimately mixed into a coherent and refined composition.

The work combines theoretical mathematical shapes (like the tesseract) with concrete biological shapes like water.

The soundscape for Translucens is constructed layer by layer from several drone and granular synthesizer sounds. There is no concrete melody in the work but rather soundscapes that create contrasts with one another. The soundscapes create light dissonances, that are not completelely deconstructed at any stage of the show. A low, constant tune keeps the entirety together and does not release the viewer from its grasp.

• Design: Ghost Project
• Production and realisation: Sun Effects Oy
• Location: Linnansaari

The work is an ensemble of iconic sunsets. The installation, as seen through Venetian blinds and a candied filter, plays with the subject of natural versus artificial. The modern man keeps on seeking instant gratification by saturating the digital environment with image-correcting filters. Do we still know how natural phenomena should really look like?

• Design: Anna-Mari Nousiainen, Tiina Vehkaperä, John Collingswood & Jared van Earle
• Location: Oulu Library

In a backstreet of mid-20th century Paris sat a run-down and cheap hotel. No. 9 Rue Git-le-Coeur only provided hot water 3 days a week when all 42 rooms shared a single bathtub. The building did not even have a name until it became home to a group of international visionaries, rebels, and hipsters – the poets, musicians, and artists who named it The Beat Hotel.

Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, and an extended family of Beat Generation artists lived and worked there between 1957 and the hotel’s closure in 1963.

Reflecting the collaborative energy of the creatives who lived there, four international artists come together in Oulu Library to work together on an immersive installation. Taking inspiration from old photos and writings about the hotel, the poems and paintings of the residents, the techniques of the Beat Poets, and adding contemporary references and technology, The Beat Hotel brings together history and future, art, light, and literature.

• Design: Alexander Reichstein
• In collaboration: Oulun Liikekeskus ry
• Location: Ahtisaari Square

Light festivals happen at night, but night is the time for sleeping. We dream when we sleep, and sometimes we fly when we are dreaming. It is fascinating how a sleeping person’s body often resembles someone who really is flying, jumping, running, and climbing. My sculptures depict different people asleep, men, women, and children lying on pillows, sometimes covered by blankets, but out of their beds, floating above us. They are fashioned from galvanized steel wire, and therefore quite firm, light, and transparent. Sprayed with a special paint, the steel wire glows at night when bathed in ultraviolet light. Figures resemble 3-D drawings, and merge with the surrounding environment.

The installation is on display from Nov 18, 2022 until Jan 6, 2023.

• Design: Ville Tanhuala
• Commissioned by: Oulun Infra

On 21 June 2021, the Ahti storm blew down the massive Berlin poplar tree on Lohipadonniemi in Raatti. A year later, the poplar was carved into a piece of art on location by artist Ville Tanhuala. The artwork represents the dialogue between nature and urban living, including the cultural identity and history of Oulu. The poplar was carved using a variety of tools. The piece is estimated to last several years where it is. The tree is lighted by LED lights.

• Time: Fri-Sun 18-20 Nov at 4 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Location: Kaijontupa, Kalevalantie 5, Kaijonharju

Message in a bottle for the future, a communal artwork: the children of Toiveiden Torstai from Kaijonharju with workshop counsellors Riikka Kontio, Minna Mikkonen, Kulttuuriosuuskunta Ilme, and district culture of Valve.

During the year 2022, participants of the communal project at Toiveiden Torstait visual and literary art workshops have been dreaming about the future of Kaijonharju as well as their own. Their wishes have been sent as messages in bottles to the future.

During the Lumo Light Festival, the sea of the work comes to life in the magnificent glass stairwell of Kaijontupa.

Video light installation: media artist Pirjo Lempeä