Future
Jan. 2024 — Dec. 2025 — With Forests in Our Mouths
Constellation artwork
Multiple chapters, in multiple locations and online
Info | Project website
Nov. 2024 — Dec. 2025 — Speech Community
(Chapter Six of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Language classes, publications, group language experiments, compositions
Online, various locations
Info
11-27 Apr. 2025 — Echo Ballads // Pasián Esba
(Chapter Seven of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Performance (10 Apr. 18-20h), exhibition
Lou gallery, curator Remi Vesala
Helsinki, Finland
Info
25 Apr. 2025 — Echo Ballads II
Short performance (19h)
Esiintymiä Festival, Teaterri Kiisuu
Outokumpu, Finland
Summer 2025 — The Deep
(Chapter Eight of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Limited edition print publication
24-25 Sep. 2025 — Seedling
(Chapter Nine of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Performance
Ballhaus Ost
Berlin, Germany
01-15 Nov. 2025 — Field Guide
(Chapter Ten of With Forests in Our Mouths)
with Joni Judén
Sound installation
as part of the group exhibition SORRY, curator Micol Curatolo
Loisti gallery
Helsinki, Finland
Nov. 2025 — Safehouse
(Chapter Eleven of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Performance
XS Festival, Titanik
Turku, Finland
Winter 2025 — Black Rope Almanac
(Chapter Twelve of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Publication
04 Dec. 2025 — 28 Jan. 2026 — Eurantie Window Publication
with Multipöly
Text
Helsinki, Finland
Info
Past
02 Apr. 2025 — Great Forest Dialogue Day Queerness & the Forest: How can Queer lives coexist and be mutually enriched by the Forest?
Online discussion format
Initiated by the Kone Foundation’s Metsän puolella initiative and DialogiAkatemia
Register: info(at)oncewewereislands.com (NB. All places currently full)
Nov. — Dec. 2024 — Saari Residence
Mynämäki, Finland
Info | Project page | Access page
11 Oct. 2024 — Palace of Ash and Rain
(Chapter Five of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Performance
with Elliott Cennetoglu, Óscar González, Jean P’ark
JUCKPULVER Festival, Theater neben dem Turm, Marburg
Info
16-17 Oct. 2024 — Palace of Ash and Rain
(Chapter Five of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Performance
with Elliott Cennetoglu, Óscar González, Jean P’ark
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Info & Tickets
02 Oct. 2024 — Helialá: A Gathering of Poems
(Chapter Four of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Publication
with poems by Stefani J Alvarez, Jacob Louis Beany, Moss Berke, Esther Boles, Micol Curatolo, Alton Melvar M Dapanas, Kit Gee, Sky Jing Lee, Anna T, TEINIART, and Jack Young
Launch event, Finnland-Institut, Berlin
with readings by Xdzunúm Danae Trejo-Boles, Mmakgosi Kgabi
Info
30 Aug. 2024 — Remembering Colours
(Chapter Three of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Performance
Kaivos Festivaali, Outokumpu, Finland
Info | FB Event
05 — 11 Jul. 2024 — TUO TUO Residency
Joutsa, Finland
Info
20 — 21 Jul. 2024 — Open Studios
Vanhat Talot, Outokumpu, Finland
20 Jun. 2024 — Thick Time
(Chapter Two of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Short film
Online premiere
Info | Film-on-demand
06 — 09 Jun. 2024 — Thick Time
(Chapter Two of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Short film
Hiljaisuus Festivaali, Kaukonen, Finland
Info
Spring 2024 — Drycleaners of the Soul
Aslan, published by Circadian
Book (second edition)
Order here | Further Info
Spring 2024 — Poetry Open Call
for the publication Helialá — A Gathering of Poems
Deadline for submissions 01 June 2024
Info
05 — 21 Apr. 2024 — Like Déjà-Vu But The Other Way Around
(Chapter One of With Forests in Our Mouths)
Exhibition
Titanik
Info | Venissage 04 Apr. 2024
Mar. 2024 — Missive back from Second Speaker, written in the Shared Language from a Future in which we are Thriving as a People
Article
InterAlia — a journal of queer studies
The Multilingual Issue: untranslatability, linguistic multitudes, embodied speech — ed. Anna T & Dr Antek Engel
Online Journal | Link to article
21 Mar. 2024 — Queerhill Histories / Kvääriä Okuhistoriaa
Monthly Queer history research group (Nov. 2023 — Mar. 2024)
with Nadja Leham and Debi Helmi Kuisma
Public library, Outokumpu
Info
22 Feb. 2024 — Queerhill Histories / Kvääriä Okuhistoriaa
Monthly Queer history research group (Nov. 2023 — Mar. 2024)
with Nadja Leham and Debi Helmi Kuisma
Public library, Outokumpu
Info
01 Feb. 2024 — Queerhill Histories / Kvääriä Okuhistoriaa
Monthly Queer history research group (Nov. 2023 — Mar. 2024)
with Nadja Leham and Debi Helmi Kuisma
Public library, Outokumpu
Info
Nov. 2023 — Jan. 2024 — ‘Autistic Long-Form’ as an Artistic Methodology
Research project
Aslan
Info
Nov. 2023 — Jan. 2024 — Finding Animal
Research project
Chris Gylee
Info
14 Dec. 2023 — Queerhill Histories / Kvääriä Okuhistoriaa
Monthly Queer history research group (Nov. 2023 — Mar. 2024)
with Nadja Leham and Helmi Räisänen
Public library, Outokumpu
Info
30 Nov. 2023 — Queerhill Histories / Kvääriä Okuhistoriaa
Monthly Queer history research group (Nov. 2023 — Mar. 2024)
with Nadja Leham and Helmi Räisänen
Public library, Outokumpu
Info
17 Nov. 2023 — showroom: worldly Portals
Moving image works, short films, live music
Curated by Remi Vesala
Baltic Circle — International Theatre Festival, Helsinki
Info | Tickets
08 Nov. 2023 — Public Conversations — Practices: Strategies and Tactics
Conversation series
Applied Theatre Studies department, University of Gießen
Info
9 Sep. 2023 — The Playwright is Present — Das Autor:innen Ensemble
Dramen der Gegenwart #2 Festival
together with Mazlum Nergiz, Katharina Schlender, Ralph Tharayil
Ballhaus Ost
Info | Festival website
10 Sep. 2023 — Damiá: Language as a Landscape
Dramen der Gegenwart #2 Festival
Workshop
Ramba Zamba Theater
Festival website
19 — 30 Jun. 2023 — Big Bangs & Black Holes
Film adaptation double-bill: Dogs of Love and We Come With Nothing
with Elliott Cennetoglu, Mars Dietz, Óscar González, Elie Gregory
and response texts by Inky Lee, Parvathi Ramanathan
www.ballhausost.de
Info | Films-on-demand
Apr. — Jun. 2023 — CROWS
#TakeHeart research project
Aslan
Info
Apr. — Jun. 2023 — Self Portrait as Heliotrope
#TakeHeart research project
Chris Gylee
Info
Mar. 2023 — Mustarinda Residency
with Malin Arnell, Mar Fjell (In Each Other’s Company)
Hyrynsalmi, Finland
Info
28 Feb. — 13 Mar. 2023 — The Crossing
Premiere — Film adaptation
with Elliott Cennetoglu, Mars Dietz, Ethan Allison Folk, Óscar González, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Lea Martini
www.ballhausost.de | Full film (75 min)
Oct. — Dec. 2022 — Mountain of Tongues
#TakeHeart research project
Aslan
Info
08 Dec. 2022 — Homecoming — Greatest Hits!
Live listening event, with free copies available of the vinyl EP and publication
Aquarium, Berlin
Info | RSVP
02 Dec. 2022 — Homecoming — Greatest Hits!
Digital EP release
Online at www.queertongue.com | Bandcamp
from Nov. 2022 — Homecoming — Greatest Hits!
Vinyl EP, Publication, Films, Online archive, Live listening event
with Jennifer Bell, Elliott Cennetoglu, Mars Dietz, Amber Fasquelle, Kit Gee, Óscar González, Elie Gregory, Ethan Allison Folk, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Inky Lee, MINQ
Online at www.queertongue.com, plus analogue and live formats
Info
30 Nov. 2021 — 31 Oct. 2022 — 12 Months — A Year
Durational film in monthly chapters
with Amber Fasquelle, Rosemary Joy, Cicely Parnas
It's About Time festival
Online at www.ballhausost.de
Info | Full film (60 min)
27-30 Oct. 2022 — The Crossing
Premiere — Performance
with Elliott Cennetoglu, Mars Dietz, Óscar González, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Lea Martini
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Info | Tickets | Cancelled due to illness in the team
Jun. — Aug. 2022 — FORTY
#TakeHeart research project
Chris Gylee
Info & Texts
09 Jun. — 21 Aug. 2022 — QUEER TONGUES
Screening as part of the exhibition Speech Sounds, with accompanying book-works
VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland
Info
Jul. 2022 — Silence Residency
Kaukonen, Finland
Info
14 Oct. 2021 — The Forest and Rural Spaces for Queer Bodies — Experiencing Finnish Karelia During an Artist Residency
Artist talk moderated by Mikaela Mäkelä
Le Magasin, hosted by the Finnish Institute in Germany
Info
07-21 Oct. 2021 — KARELIA: Alone Among The Trees
Premiere — Film
with Elie Gregory
Online at www.ballhausost.de
Info
07-10 Oct. 2021 — KARELIA: Femmes of the Forest
Premiere — Performance
with Elliott Cennetoglu, Mars Dietz
Ballhaus Ost
Info
04 Sep. 2021 — O
participating with IASA (International Agency for Space Affairs)
Hamburger Bahnhof
Info
20 Aug. 2021 — We Come With Nothing
Premiere
FÜR DICH FÜR DICH FÜR DICH Festival — Teil 1
Theater neben dem Turm, Marburg
Info | Programme & Tickets
11-14 Aug. 2021 — Don't Look At Me, Close Your EyesTwo-channel video installation as part of the durational performance Wo wir Lebensmittel liebten - Ein Zwischenraum
Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel, Flensburg
Info | Tickets
Jul. 2021 — Old Mine Residency
Outokumpu, Finland
10 Jun. 2021 — Feminist Invasion: Manifesting Queer Histories and Futures in the Body
In conversation with Dr. Cole Collins
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München
Online | Info | FB Event
Apr. 2021 — Queer Tongues
Documentary Film
Trailer | Full length film
Mar. 2021 — Schloss Bröllin Residency
Fahrenwalde, Germany
Info
Dec. 2020 - Jan. 2021 — Queer TonguesResearch Project - #TakeCare Residency, Fonds Darstellende Künste
Berlin & Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel, Flensburg
Info | Instagram | Online Zine