The multi-art performance gallery built in a staged home confuses the audience once again on September 2, 2023.
The festival offers visual and spoken art as well as music performances in the most mundane places. Previous themes for the concept art festival and total piece of art have been middle class family life, normality and the constructions of home and family. MULF hopes to ask social questions sometimes in an absurd way and in a private home milieu. And one must remember to take one’s Mooming mugs along!
This year’s theme is a quote from author Deborah Levy: ”Women on High Horse”. It has been supposed to suggest arrogance, or superiority, but it can also mean that the rider, a woman, has a sense of her own purpose of life and she gets on with the things she wanted to do in the world. Sometimes it’s called agency, like Levy describes in her book Real Estate.
This year’s specialty is the MULF Bus which takes the festival publicum from Oulu to Muhos and back (Route: Torinranta, Oulu–Hartikantie–Torinranta). The Bus leaves at 17:00 from Torinranta, Oulu (Kaarlenväylä bus stop) and returns to the same place after the festival. Return leaves from MULF at 23:00. Travel time app. 45 min. Performance artist Mari Kämäräinen will take care of the programme in the bus. We recommend buying the ticket including the festival pass and the transportation, in advance from Tiketti.fi. Specifics instructions can be found from the Ticket sales below.
Program
Art works
18:00–23:00
Territories / Christelle Mas / Lobby
Paperin työt / Jenni Kinnunen / Restroom
Silkkiperhonen / Minna Mikkonen, Tuomas Kettunen, Eeva Hartemaa & Lauri Marjakangas / Several places, N.B. you will need your own headphones
Graffiti to the theme / Marko Anttila / Garage
Barbitalo / Jenni Kinnunen / Cleaning closet
Yksityinen/Julkinen / Pauliina Vanhatalo & Essi Kummu / Study
Liederkreis-Oulujärvi / Annemari Moilanen, Laura Heikkilä, Jenni Kinnunen & Sami Mustonen / TV room
Performances
17:00 Travel Guide / Mari Kämäräinen, performance artist / N.B. in MULF bus
18:00 Opening fanfare / Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saksofoni / Balcony
18:00 Soprano’s forbidden fruits / Elvire Beekhuizen, soprano (NL), Laura Heikkilä, piano & Szymon Komarnicki, director (PL) / Terrace
18:00 Silent Disko / Garage (30 min)
19:00 La Tierra Blanca / Anna Murtola, vocals, Joonas Widenius, guitar & Ricardo Padilla, percussions / Terrace
20:00 Silent Disko / Garage (30 min)
20:30 Private/Public / Pauliina Vanhatalo, translator-author & Essi Kummu, author / Terrace
21:00 Antiphone of Hildegard of Bingen / Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone & mobile phones of the audience / Outside Grand Piano
21:30 Silent Disko / Garage (75 min)
21.30 Home party / Cultish Kollektiivi / Living room
22:45 Closing Fanfare / Closing fanfare / Anna-Sofia Anttonen, saxophone / Front porch
23:00 Free reflection of the festival / N.B. in MULF bus in
Changes possible.
Audience Guide
Tickets
Tickets in advance from Tiketti.fi: Festival pass 16,50 € (incl. service fee 1,50 €), discount groups 11,50 € (incl. service fee 1,50 €), MULF but + Festival Pass 30,00 € (incl. service fee 2,50 €) + delivery fee by the chosen delivery method.
The bus ticket from Tiketti.fi includes the Festival Pass. The sale of the bus tickets ends at Tiketti.fi in the day of event at 16:45, general ticket sale ends at 21:00. Tiketti.fi accepts common culture passes and notes, too, but the bus ticket cannot be purchased with one. Contact details of the bus travelers are gathered for travel announcement.
Tickets from the gate: Festival Pass 15 €, discount groups 10 €. Payment methods include MobilePay, generals credit cards and cash.
Tickets from the bus: Bus + Festival Pass 35 €, if seats are available. Payment methods include MobilePay or cash. We recommend buying the ticket in advance.
Under 16 year olds free of charge. Take your ID with you.
Festival Area
The festival is held mainly outside from 18:00 to 23:00. Entering indoors we kindly ask to remove your shoes. Consider the weather conditions in your outfit. There’s some rain shelter on the perimeter.
Bring your own Moomin mug for the drinks. No service to other mugs.
You can bring your own picnic. The MULF kiosk provides some hot beverages and sweet and salty items. The kiosk prefers MobilePay as a payment method but cash and cards are also accepted.
By all means, take advance of the opportunity to stalk around, but please do not touch the art work if otherwise instructed.
Arriving to the festival
The Festival takes places in a private home situated near bus stops Hartikka E and Hartikka P. From Oulu the lines are 40 and 41.
By car you can use the navigator, Google Maps and other map apps. There will be navigating signs and a parking lot.
Taking the train from Oulu or Utajärvi and bicycling the rest 8 km might be an exotic experience!
Artists
Artistic Director — Jenni Kinnunen
Artists — Marko Anttila, Anna-Sofia Anttonen, Elvire Beekhuizen, Cultish Kollektiivi, Eeva Hartemaa, Laura Heikkilä, Tuomas Kettunen, Jenni Kinnunen, Szymon Komarnicki, Essi Kummu, Mari Kämäräinen, Lauri Marjakangas, Christelle Mas, Minna Mikkonen, Annemari Moilanen, Anna Murtola, Sami Mustonen, Ricardo Padilla, Johanna Pelkonen, Pauliina Vanhatalo & Joonas Widenius
Visual look — Lauri Ahtinen
Sponsored by — Muhos Municipality
