In Autumn 2020, following half a year of the Coronavirus Pandemic, it started to become clear that it was necessary to develop a forked path in Pixelache Festival planning for June 2021: Radio! One of the oldest media forms at physical distance from each...

Pixelache Helsinki announced an Open Call titled #Burn____ in Spring 2020. Andrew Gryf Paterson, festival’s co-director, opened up the theme with his ‘Letter fae the Other Side’. We are now writing hopefully from the destination on the other side of the...

I’ve learnt to work with and within insecurity. It might even be that many times I have actively chosen the lack of certainty. Rather than a disruption, not-knowing the outcome has been a method in my life and work. In early 2020 Andrew Gryf Paterson...

How to plan a festival based on open calls? Our Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival #Burn____ Open Call for Audio was announced the day after Winter Solstice, looking towards the festival planned for 6.-13. June 2021, a few weeks before mid-summer. I write to...

Is with great pride that Pixelache Helsinki is officially welcoming Laura Gustafsson as the co-director of the Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival! She will direct the next festival with Pixelache board member Andrew Gryf Paterson. Laura Gustafsson (1983) is a...

Pixelache welcomes submissions to the Second Open Call for its 2021 Festival in Helsinki, 6-13th June, with a focus explicitly on audio-based contributions for the planned festival RADIO -stream. This audio programme will be presented locally as a public...

Well, it might not sound as appealing as a summer in the Caraibes but it is an experience I would be pleased to let you know more about... As a French student in my first year of Master's degree in Management of European and International cultural projects,...

How to respond to submissions to an open call? Our Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival 1st Open Call was one of the concerns during Spring and early Summer 2020 for Pixelache production office. A few months earlier in April, as part of that production office,...

Dear Diary, Day four of our festival, at the far end of the Helsinki metro station in Kontula, Jan Lütjohan continues to work with his merry troupe of carpenters as part of Working with hands in a post-industrial society at The Museum of Impossible Forms....

Piknik Frequency Ry is looking for a part-time (50%) financial administrator, starting from June 2020 with a short training period at the end of May . We are an international art and culture organisation based in Helsinki, producing various events and...

Dear Diary, Day three of our seven day festival is underway. We follow up two days of launches, a group exhibition of invited artists at SOLU (featuring Varvara and Mar, Dries Depoorter, Heyon Han and Pixelache's own Bio-Signals team on day one) and a solo...

The ambition was to try and write an open open call for a transdisciplinary arts festival. One where the theme is laid out on the table, thrown into the air, catching the breeze of joy and discontent. Dropped in an ocean, opened at any page in a book. There...