ROLE
Festival director
ABOUT
Aavistus Festival is a biennial of audiovisual art and VJ culture. It is currently the only festival in Finland focusing especially on VJ culture. The festival presents art forms, such as audiovisual and VJ performances, projection mapping and an exhibition of audiovisual installations.
The four-day event on 3.–6.10.2024 saw performances or artworks by 85 artists from 15 different countries during 26 events in 4 locations. The festival had over 3 100 visitors. The festival’s theme was “At the points of interconnection”.
The four-day event on 3.–6.10.2024 saw performances or artworks by 85 artists from 15 different countries during 26 events in 4 locations. The festival had over 3 100 visitors. The festival’s theme was “At the points of interconnection”.
TEAM
Aavistus Festival is an independent non-profit festival organised by local VJs, artists, event professionals, designers and media art lovers. The core production team in 2024 consisted of Merle Karp, Antti Hietaniemi, Henri Miettinen, Hannu Häkkinen, Viktor Teodosin, Suvi Parrilla and Jassir Kuronen.
Brenda El Rayes & Maja Korpi (SE) AV live performance. Photo: Juho Liukkonen
~7 VJ performance. Photo: Liu Wenyi
林淼 Sui's installation Planes of Incidence
Yoann Durant live perfomance with visuals by Angelica Tibblin Chen. Photo: Juho Liukkonen
Klara Lewis (SE) solo AV performance
Yu-Hsuan Yao VJ performance. Photo: Liu Wenyi
Yu-Hsuan Yao VJ performance. Photo: Liu Wenyi
~7 VJ performance. Photo: Liu Wenyi
10 Percent Human Collective live performance.
Julesvisuaalinen live coding workshop. Photo: Susse Seppälä
Ahmad Erfani's interactive installation. Photo: Susse Seppälä
VJ Oka performance. Photo: Liu Wenyi
Kurbas Productions (UA) projection mapping work. Photo: Liu Wenyi