The Invasive Species Club, which started on Easter Thursday with the themes of death and despair, will continue in May with the themes of denialism and escapism. The "night of isms" will explore the difficulty of creating an honest snapshot of the situation through a variety of existing and invented -isms. Speech sections will create different degrees of denialism and meander through fears of the ecocrisis and the resulting humanitarian crises, while music sections are composed from the eras and borders of different -isms. The evening will also seek to create an -ism or two to help operate with the horror of contemporary realism of the ecocrisis.
Social psychologist Annukka Vainio will explore behavioural change in the pursuit of sustainable development. Her contribution will address isms such as denialism and climate realism.
Soprano Meeri Pulakka, together with harpist Maaria Pulakka, will perform music by Florence Price, Elfrida André and György Kurtág, among others, in an escapist atmosphere. Composer Matilda Seppälä also takes an artivist approach to escapism, perhaps in a way that is atypical of compositionism.
Kaukolampi, the electronic representative of experimentalism, will wonder how expressionistic minimalism is at its maximum.
Stina Koistinen, aka STINAKO, is sometimes silver-red in her melancholy. STINAKO's music can be listened to as honest sentimentalism.
Also starring: impressionism, capitalism, modernism, avant-gardism, absurdism, brutalism, protectionism, bullshit, florism.
Maaria Pulakka, harp
Kaukolampi, electronic instruments
Annukka Vainio, speech
Meeri Pulakka, soprano
Eriikka Maalismaa, violin
Stina Koistinen, vocals and keyboard
Matilda Seppälä, dance and speech
More programme announced later