Otso Huapniemi, 2017 Performed by one human and a number of algorithms, Live Writing Receptacle parasitizes the Kiasma lobby. It reflects the surrounding events and acts as a living receiver that turns what it sees, hears, and otherwise senses into improvised text. LWR is a poetic observatory that leaves traces of the possibility of this interaction. http://www.loveabz.com/ Performance / Main Lobby, 1st Floor / 12:30am, 03.45am, 06.10am / 30 min.. Read More

Dj Damien Cadio For the 7th edition of P is not Dead in A Night of Philosophy, the Artist Damien Cadio will provide a soundtrack for wolves, ghosts, jellyfishes, Turing machines and for everything remains before the daylight comes. Damien Cadio was born in 1975 in France. He works since 25 years as a painter and videographer. He also recorded numerous soundtracks for films and installations from other artists. His.. Read More

In this performance, Tero Nauha plays and mixes vinyl records with pre-recorded presentations and lectures by himself. He will mix these records with Theremin and live performance. In this performance voices stutter, skip and whine. The performance clones itself and flattens thoughts. The artistic practice does more than just think with philosophy, like an ‘almost-a-philosopher’. It modulates the gestures of philosophical and performance thought. Performance / Main Lobby, 1st Floor.. Read More

One table – different people – food and drinks  – and you –  be part of the table society The table society invites at four different times at the night of philosophy people to create for a short period of time a table society – the connection between all the people: they don´t know each other. Join a dinner with strangers and create a society which exists in this night… Read More

Is our skin once again a place of thought symbolization? Can we tattoo a philosophical thought, so it can be seen ? Couldn’t this be the occasion for a ritual? These questions form the matter Robert Hatisi will explore with you through the night, by means of his ambulant painting-kit. Born in Cairo, of Romanian parents, raised in Germany, Robert Hatisi moved to France to study at the drama-school ESAD.. Read More

Photo credit: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen At A Night of Philosophy in Helsinki #2 we will see a snippet of Sonja Jokiniemi´s work RRRRR ( 2016 ): an appearance of a character called Owl. In this poetic exploration the character wanders in landscapes of disappearance, loss and disassociation of mind and identity. Jokiniemi is interested in communication and inanimate, their collaboration and conversation in a world that is.. Read More

Since 2014, Timo Honkela has served as a professor at the department of modern linguistics of University of Helsinki, Finland. Earlier he has worked as a professor and other academic positions at the Helsinki University of Technology and University of Art and Design Helsinki (both currently part of Aalto University). The central themes in Honkela’s work have been related to the epistemological questions regarding computational modeling of language, communication, and.. Read More

Max Ryynänen (b. 1972) studied philosophy, aesthetics and semiotics in Helsinki, Pisa, Uppsala and Philadelphia (Temple). He left academic philosophy early to pursue a career in art theory (in the art world), but has lately come back to work on the philosophy of contemporary art and popular culture. Ryynänen works currently as senior lecturer of theory of visual culture and the director of the MA program Visual Culture and Contemporary.. Read More

Olli Koistinen is Professor at the department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History, and Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He works mainly on early modern philosophy and has published papers on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant. He also works on contemporary metaphysics, especially action theory, a subject on which he has published a monograph. Lecture / Kiasma Theater / 6 am / 20 min A Night.. Read More

Erika Ruonakoski, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. She is the author of Eläimen tuttuus ja vieraus (Familiarity and foreignness of animals, 2011) and the co-author of Human and Animal in Ancient Greece (2017) together with Docent Tua Korhonen. Her philosophical point of departure is phenomenology of the body, and she has specialized in questions of intersubjectivity, animals and gender. Currently.. Read More