One of the reasons TaikaBox is particularly excited about this TaikaTalk is that collaboration with Niklas Zidarov has been our dream for a while, and this conversation happened – unlike most of previous TaikaTalks – before we have actually met and worked together. Niklas has been our inspiration for a […]

Elena Gutkina is a Moscow-based filmmaker currently researching community-based dance and site-specific performance. The artists of TaikaBox have been lucky to collaborate with her on the ”Keho On Dacha / Body Is Dacha” project. It unites artists in the North of Finland and Russia in a long-term research on reviving […]

Toni Alatalo is a chief technology officer and cofounder of Oulu-based technology company Playsign Ltd and TaikaBox’ partner in developing the Warjakka Augmented Reality app. This app restores the houses that existed around a century ago in the village of Varjakka. It offers users the chance to explore the buildings […]

Dance artist Silja Tuovinen has been a regular guest in this Summer’s Warjakka Art Lab where she has been conducting research, particularly on grief.  Silja is doing a Masters Programme in Choreography at Stockholm University of Arts. She has a Bachelor degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Malmö University, […]

TaikaBox has been lucky to have had multiple fruitful collaborations with Oulu-based musician and DJ Jussi Alaraasakka. Jussi has provided soundtrack mentoring for numerous Oulu Dance Hacks and performed with us for some of our favourite shows, workshops and improvised gigs.  This TaikaTalk took place in Rapumaja – a creative […]

Oulu wouldn’t be Oulu without musician and producer Jarkko Halunen – the leader of both the band Neondad and LUMO – the light art festival which unites artists from around the globe in their joint creative boost transforming the whole city into one big multimedia installation each year. TaikaBox has […]

Warjakka Art Path – an urban street art installed into the forest and adapted to its aesthetics – has officially opened and will run until the end of August. You are welcome to explore and contribute to it – Warjakka Art Path encourages its visitors to create art pieces, celebrating […]

Near Real Ltd is an Oulu-based tech company and TaikaBox’s partner within the TechArt project (funded by the Council of Oulu Region). Together we combine art and technology finding new ways to innovate performance. We have been lucky to create a digital/live hybrid system to produce and perform Føddur Gamal […]

Antti Kaarlela, Aleksi Puranen and Antti Kairakari write stories and put them to life in movies and multimedia artwork. Their movies and documentaries combine the personal and the political, interlacing the saddest and the hardest topics with the vibes that make you laugh so much you cry – only to […]