Noise Traffic: Reclaiming Memory Archives
5-8 October 2025
Vapaan Taiteen Tila – Vilhonvuorenkuja 15, 00500 Helsinki
Opening Sunday, 5 October 2025 18:00-22:00
The event is free of charge and open to all but some events need RSVP in advance.
Between 5-8 October 2025, Noise Traffic will return to Vapaan Taiteen Tila to Reclaim Memory Archives. This year’s edition focuses on the themes related to migration, displacement, buffer zones, noise, and internationalisation.
The four-day event program includes artworks, participatory performances, lecture performances, talks, film screenings, sound art, live concerts, and workshops by Finland-based transnational artists and cultural professionals from Cyprus.
Noise Traffic: Reclaiming Memory Archives is produced by Sensorium Space Happenings in collaboration with Catalysti Ry and with the support of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, Taiteen edistämiskeskus, and TIAN – Teak’s International Alumni Network. The working team consists of Nicolina Stylianou, the Curator of Noise Traffic, Olga Spyropoulou, Catalysti Ry Representative, Chih-Tung Lin, Communication & Social Media Content Creator, and niko wearden, Production Assistant. This year, Cello Fest visits Noise Traffic on the 7th October, with the newly formed duo SUMU.
For more information about the event, please visit our Facebook event page (https://fb.me/e/5jvlZqNs9) and Instagram account @noisetraffic
Accessibility information can be found here.
EVENT PROGRAMME
Sunday 5.10.2025
18:00
Exhibition Doors open
18:45
Camp Pournara (2023 / Cyprus)
Film by Efi Savvides
with English subtitles
36’
19:30
Working session nº4: in each step, a fragment
Lecture Performance by Daniela Pascual Esparza
45’
20:15, 20:30, 20:45
Kräftegleichgewicht | Balance of Power
Participatory Performance by Rafaella Constantinou
21:00
SOLSTICE
Live Techno by Ana Gutieszca
45’
Monday 6.10.2025
12:00-21:30 Exhibition opening hours
14:00
Exhibition guided tour in English by Nicolina Stylianou
No RSVP is needed
15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30
Kräftegleichgewicht | Balance of Power
Participatory Performance by Rafaella Constantinou
RSVP in advance via https://forms.gle/T4FWngAyXQE1FMeY8
17:00
Politics on Play
Artist talk by Rafaella Constantinou, Visual Artist
30’
17:45
Creating [for] change: Expanding the space for refugee integration
through cultural production
Talk by Claudia Konyalian, Cultural Producer
30’
18:30
Pluralist Narratives of Internationalist Art and Culture
Talk by Elham Rahmati, co-founder & co-editor of NO NIIN Magazine
30’
19:00
Camp Pournara (2023 / Cyprus)
Film by Efi Savvides
with English subtitles
36’
20:00
Elsewhere
Live concert by Aloes
45’
Tuesday 7.10.2025
13:00-21:30 Exhibition opening hours
14:00
A pot of sugar and spice
Somali Halwa Workshop by Maryam Dahir Ilmi
120’
Free admission
RSVP in advance via https://forms.gle/cFrgBxS2ZLtJTLms9
19:00
Sumu
Live concert by Duo UTU
Cello Fest visits Noise Traffic
60’
Wednesday 8.10.2025
10:00-15:00 Exhibition opening hours
10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30
Kräftegleichgewicht | Balance of Power
Participatory Performance by Rafaella Constantinou
RSVP in advance via https://forms.gle/T4FWngAyXQE1FMeY8
5-8 2025
Screen Recording 2020-11-20 at 1.59.44 PM (2023)
Short film by Argyro Nicolaou
Strap sandals (2024)
Sculpture by Efi Savvides
Παράνομη Παραμονή (Illegal Stay)
Publication By Efi Savvides
Untitled
Photography by REUTERS / Yiannis Kourtoglou
Photography by Nicolina Stylianou
