12th October 2021 20:00 FINLAND

13th October 2021 20:00 FINLAND

14th October 2021 20:00 FINLAND

15th October 2021 20:00 FINLAND

16th October 2021 20:00 FINLAND

FROM THE DEAD AIR ORGY: On The Nature of Things

FROM THE DEAD AIR ORGY is a series of five broadcast chapters being transmitted live from a hidden location somewhere on the outskirts of Helsinki. Each broadcast reveals a developing narrative from a location an audience can now no longer enter.

The broadcasts revolve around the poem On The Nature of Things by the Roman poet Lucretius (c.99BC - c.55BC). His epic work explores a scientific reading of the world through physics and atomic theory: that everything that exists is made up of matter and empty space and that atoms are the building blocks of what we perceive as reality.

From The Dead Air Orgy gathers Lucretius’s poem and uses it as the perimeter to ask a series of questions about the future of the universe using an Artificial Intelligence text generator. This text is then transmitted through each of the broadcasts along with other inexplicable events taking place within the location and its surroundings.

A network evolves of covert exports, hidden caves, survivalist prepping, prophecies and pole dancing.

Concept, Direction and Design Simon Vincenzi
Developed with Will Saunders and Kath Duggan

Text: Lucretius  re-translated through Artificial Intelligence
text generators



Cast in order of appearance:

Kath/Sibyl: Kath Duggan

The Absent: Marlon Moilanen

The Lost Survivalist: Eero Yli-Vakkuri

The Helsinki Chair Hire Company: Tea Andreoletti,
Jasmine Bischke, Pie Kär, Lauri Niskanen & Aino Tuomi-Nikula

The Courier: Miguel Barroso

The Waiting Chorus: Tea Andreoletti, Heidi Backström,
Thomas Berra, Sarah Carruth, Riina Hannuksela, Anne Naukkarinen,
Selina Riikonen, Helka Yli-Vakkuri & Okko Yli-Vakkuri

Sweaty Hades & Friend: Sampsa Indrén & Janne Friman

The Pole Dancer (The Core): Noora Juppi

Sybil In The Sauna: Janina Rajakangas

The Voice of Corpse Radio: Amanda Hadingue

The Hidden Photographer: Aman Askarizad


Sound Design: Will Saunders
Drone Footage: Aukusti Heinonen

Technical Design and Production: Tiago Martins Pinto

Production: Emmi Vainio
Technical Support: Viljami Lehtonen
Communications: Svenja Fassbender

Special thanks:
Annika Niskanen, Lauri Niskanen, Sarah Carruth, Eero Yli-Vakkuri,
Ruth Vincenzi, Kira O’Riley & Helsingin Pelastuslaitos

Production curated by Sonja Jokiniemi with Elina Pirinen and Mikko Niemistö
for BAD HOUSE Festival.


Commissioned and Produced by BAD HOUSE Festival


Supported by Goethe-Institut Finnland and The British Embassy Helsinki

With the collaboration of Xing/Live Arts Week



The first edition of THE DEAD AIR ORGY (The Song of Silenus) was commissioned
and presented as part of XING/Live Arts Week 11/12/13 April 2019





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