The performance is based on the seeming contrasts of cold enunciating warmth, folk denouncing electronics, silence healing language. Exploring the sound properties of the Silo 468, the performance houses a reverberating ensemble of instruments from the son jarocho-tradition in the midst of an ambient electronic synthesis.

Bio

Daniel Malpikka is a Mexican-Finnish poet, designer, and transmedia artist based in Helsinki. His transdisciplinary practice explores the intersections of literature, language, sound, and digital media, operating at the crossroads of poetry, performance, and installation to expand writing beyond the page. He has developed projects across Europe, the Nordic region, and Mexico, presenting at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki and Lettrétage in Berlin.

Amado Peña is a poet, translator, and transmedia artist. With a background in Hispanic Language and Literature and specialization in reading promotion, cultural management, and Mexican literature in Indigenous languages, his practice unfolds across writing, performance, and material experimentation.

Benjamin Rosenlund is a Finnish musician, micro-publisher and author. Having composed soundtracks for Yle as well as theatre, he is also a founding member of the Fenno-Swedic political folk group Svenska Dolkpartiet. He is the editor of the micro-publisher Arkadia Publishers' poetry collection Hesperia Series and has published a handful of political books of poetry and essay. His interests range from Wittgenstein to the Fenno-Swedic political discourse about exclusion, identity and power.

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K'U'UM COLLECTIVE operates as an independent platform for exploring syncretism, communal practices, and anarchist structures. Ku’um runs a writers-run kitchen and curates a series of literary-based projects that emphasize collective creation, radical thought, and alternative modes of cultural production. K'u'um is currently supported by Niilo Helander Foundation.