every Where and any place
- Collaborative Site-Specific Music
Residency 17 - 28 june
Performance 27 june (as a part of the local art trail Kulturglimtar)
More information about times and schedules for the public event will be provided.
About the project
What happens when artists inhabit a place over time and allow it to shape their music, sounds, and audience interaction?
The project “every Where and any place“ unites three international artists to explore collaborative creation and the role of place in artistic processes. The initiative, a partnership between nyMusikk (Norway) and Konstmusiksystrar (Sweden), reflects their commitment to contemporary Nordic music.
The artists are Alsa Ojala (FI), Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/US), and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (NL/IS). Each works with composition, sound, and performance, and shares an interest in collective methods and site-specific art.
The project starts with a ten-day residency at Ställberg Mine in June 2026. During the residency, the artists will develop works reflecting the site’s history, architecture, and acoustics, to be presented in a sound-based group showcase where the audience experiences music, place, and presence together.
The artists are free to explore performance, concert, installation, workshop, or discussion formats, and are encouraged to let their works blend and influence one another. This creates a dynamic situation where audience, place, and art converge.
The project’s title draws inspiration from poet and activist June Jordan, whose reflections on architecture and relationships between people and places inform the concept. Here, the venue is not a backdrop but an active part of the art, opening new beginnings and unexpected encounters.
In ‘every Where and any place’’, place, sound, and community serve as a starting point for collective exploration of what music can be—and where it can happen.
The project will continue with a new residency and presentations at Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) in Oslo in November 2026, organised by nyMusikk.
The project is run by Konstmusiksystrar and nyMusikk, in collaboration with Ställbergs gruva and Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS).
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Supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.
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Performance 27 june (as a part of the local art trail Kulturglimtar)
More information about times and schedules for the public event will be provided.
About the project
What happens when artists inhabit a place over time and allow it to shape their music, sounds, and audience interaction?
The project “every Where and any place“ unites three international artists to explore collaborative creation and the role of place in artistic processes. The initiative, a partnership between nyMusikk (Norway) and Konstmusiksystrar (Sweden), reflects their commitment to contemporary Nordic music.
The artists are Alsa Ojala (FI), Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/US), and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (NL/IS). Each works with composition, sound, and performance, and shares an interest in collective methods and site-specific art.
The project starts with a ten-day residency at Ställberg Mine in June 2026. During the residency, the artists will develop works reflecting the site’s history, architecture, and acoustics, to be presented in a sound-based group showcase where the audience experiences music, place, and presence together.
The artists are free to explore performance, concert, installation, workshop, or discussion formats, and are encouraged to let their works blend and influence one another. This creates a dynamic situation where audience, place, and art converge.
The project’s title draws inspiration from poet and activist June Jordan, whose reflections on architecture and relationships between people and places inform the concept. Here, the venue is not a backdrop but an active part of the art, opening new beginnings and unexpected encounters.
In ‘every Where and any place’’, place, sound, and community serve as a starting point for collective exploration of what music can be—and where it can happen.
The project will continue with a new residency and presentations at Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) in Oslo in November 2026, organised by nyMusikk.
The project is run by Konstmusiksystrar and nyMusikk, in collaboration with Ställbergs gruva and Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS).
Supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.
Förra året gjorde vi, tillsammans med Konstmusiksystrar (SE) och nyMusikk (NO), en utlysning för nordiska och baltiska konstnärer verksamma inom ljud och musik. I juni kommer de utvalda konstnärerna — Alsa Ojala (FI), Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/US) och Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir(NL/IS) — att komma till oss för att arbeta och bo i tio dagar, samt delta i vårt publika program inom ramen för den lokala konstrundan Kulturglimtar den 27 juni.
Nedan följer en presentation (på engelska) av de medverkande konstnärerna.
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Last year, together with Konstmusiksystrar (SE) and nyMusikk (NO), we issued an open call for Nordic and Baltic artists working with sound and music. In June, the selected artists — Alsa Ojala (FI), Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/US), and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (NL/IS) — will come to us to work and live for 10 days, as well as participating in our public programme as part of the local art trail Kulturglimtar on 27 June.
Below is a presentation of the participating artists.
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Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (1993) is an artist, musician, and composer. She finds inspiration in the mundanity of everyday life and often employs durational performance and repetition to lend a new light to her subjects. Her works thrive in interdisciplinary spaces and claim exhibition spaces as their own, using both exhibitions and others’ works as scenography. Theatrical yet resisting the black box, they rupture exhibition spaces and demand immediate attention.
Through a variety of media - performance, moving image, installation and music - Hildur Elísa employs normalised human behaviours and experiences in a critical way, displacing them into an artistic context. By placing these mundane, everyday happenings in unconventional and surreal scenes, she aims to challenge our understanding of our heavily constructed social reality, reflecting on our own ability to create new meaning and forge our own reality - always asking ‘why’ and ‘what if’.
Hildur Elísa’s creative process is a balance between caprice and compulsive research. She is particularly interested in how we experience everything that happens around us, which of those experiences we have in common and where we differ, and strives to create works that invite the audience to create their own meaning.
Hildur Elísa holds a diploma in classical clarinet from the Reykjavík College of Music, a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts, and a master’s degree in operatic performances from Sandberg Instituut. Her works have been exhibited and performed in Arti et Amificitiae (NL), Ásmundarsalur (IS), Kjarvalsstaðir (IS), Nordatlantens Brygge (DK), Outvert Art Space (IS), Platform POST (NL), SIGN (NL) and Y Gallery (IS), as well as at Gaudeamus Muziekweek (NL), Grachtenfestival (NL), November Music (NL), Opera Forward Festival (NL), Platform Nord (NO), Rewire (NL), Tokyo Biennale (JP) and Ung Nordisk Musik, and been performed by, among others, Antti Tolvi, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, Juho Myllylä, Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson and K!ART Ensemble. Together with artists Ástríður Jónsdóttir and Joe Keys, Hildur Elísa founded and runs Associate Gallery in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 2025, Hildur Elísa was the youngest recipient of the Icelandic Artist Salary. In July 2025, she also received the Artist Start stimulation stipend from the Mondriaan Fonds in the Netherlands.
hildurelisa.com
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Alsa Ojala is a trans feminine artist/writer living in Helsinki. She grew up in such a boring small town in Finland that she had to do something to survive. That something was electronic music. Keiska has been her moniker for music related work since 2011.
As a teenager she started going to dubstep club nights held in Helsinki, and club music culture became her primary art education.
Her secondary art education was studying sound design and creative writing at The Theatre Academy of Helsinki. She graduated as a Master of Sound Design in 2023.
Ojala has performed live probably over fifty times since the last eleven years and she has never played the same set twice.
Since the early 2010s she has been constantly trying to expand her artistic endeavours. Semi-recent experiments include solo exhibition at Helsinki's Lou Gallery (2024) and multiple live perfomances involving spoken-word performance. She wrote/produced audio essay about the experience of being transgender in 2023 for the Finnish national radio YLE. Ojala also writes poetry, non-fiction and cultural criticism.
keiska.bandcamp.com
Wilson Tanner Smith
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Photo: Olena Kryvoruchko
Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/USA) is a Helsinki-based cellist, composer, improviser, and theatre artist whose work at the edges between music and theatre is rooted in mirroring the alienating, absurd, silly or senseless signals we receive from the world around us, in order to cultivate an awareness of the relationships we have with the people, systems, and structures we live with. Works like “Good Job Living!” and “We have gathered here today” have drawn inspiration from the presentation of identity in daily life, alienation in commercial/consumer culture, and our relationships with social media, artificial intelligence, and Big Data. He often uses DIY and found materials and a playful relationship with the fourth wall to offer a pervasive questioning of performance as a communicative medium.
His most recent large scale interdisciplinary work, “Super normal things” was premiered at the Deutsches SchauSpeilHaus (Hamburg) and TD Berlin’s MonologFest, created in collaboration with New Delhi-based playwright Gaurav Singh Nijjer—a multimedia hybrid live/remote performance about the lived emotional experience of a world in seemingly-perpetual, overlapping, and increasing crisis.
As a sought-after composer/improviser he frequently collaborates across music, theatre, dance, and multimedia creation, with a musical sensibility informed by free improvisation, free jazz, and deep listening, and by many cross-cultural/-genre collaborations in diverse musical communities in Chicago and across northern/western Europe. He has performed at venues such as the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Estonia Kontserdisaal, Constellation (Chicago), and O Teart Theatre Lab (Guadalajara). He releases music under his own name, most recently Perpetual Guest, a series of solo cello and harmonium recordings made at the defunct Kreenholm Textile Factory at the Estonian-Russian border in Narva, Estonia. He is also a member of the improvising quartet Mad Myth Science, whose debut album was released August 2023 to acclaim from The Wire, the Quietus, Chicago Reader, and Stereogum.
He earned a Master’s in Contemporary Performance and Composition in 2024 from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, with visiting studies at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Stockholm), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Smith has held artistic residencies and developed projects at the Ligeti Center’s Sustainable Theatre Lab in collaboration with the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus, Pavillon K (DK), the Sasso Residency (CH), Ung Nordisk Musik (FI), ActInArt (IS), and the Narva Art Residency (EE).
www.wilsontannersmith.com
Nedan följer en presentation (på engelska) av de medverkande konstnärerna.
/
Last year, together with Konstmusiksystrar (SE) and nyMusikk (NO), we issued an open call for Nordic and Baltic artists working with sound and music. In June, the selected artists — Alsa Ojala (FI), Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/US), and Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (NL/IS) — will come to us to work and live for 10 days, as well as participating in our public programme as part of the local art trail Kulturglimtar on 27 June.
Below is a presentation of the participating artists.
Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir
Through a variety of media - performance, moving image, installation and music - Hildur Elísa employs normalised human behaviours and experiences in a critical way, displacing them into an artistic context. By placing these mundane, everyday happenings in unconventional and surreal scenes, she aims to challenge our understanding of our heavily constructed social reality, reflecting on our own ability to create new meaning and forge our own reality - always asking ‘why’ and ‘what if’.
Hildur Elísa’s creative process is a balance between caprice and compulsive research. She is particularly interested in how we experience everything that happens around us, which of those experiences we have in common and where we differ, and strives to create works that invite the audience to create their own meaning.
Hildur Elísa holds a diploma in classical clarinet from the Reykjavík College of Music, a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts, and a master’s degree in operatic performances from Sandberg Instituut. Her works have been exhibited and performed in Arti et Amificitiae (NL), Ásmundarsalur (IS), Kjarvalsstaðir (IS), Nordatlantens Brygge (DK), Outvert Art Space (IS), Platform POST (NL), SIGN (NL) and Y Gallery (IS), as well as at Gaudeamus Muziekweek (NL), Grachtenfestival (NL), November Music (NL), Opera Forward Festival (NL), Platform Nord (NO), Rewire (NL), Tokyo Biennale (JP) and Ung Nordisk Musik, and been performed by, among others, Antti Tolvi, Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, Juho Myllylä, Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson and K!ART Ensemble. Together with artists Ástríður Jónsdóttir and Joe Keys, Hildur Elísa founded and runs Associate Gallery in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 2025, Hildur Elísa was the youngest recipient of the Icelandic Artist Salary. In July 2025, she also received the Artist Start stimulation stipend from the Mondriaan Fonds in the Netherlands.
hildurelisa.com
Alsa Ojala
Alsa Ojala is a trans feminine artist/writer living in Helsinki. She grew up in such a boring small town in Finland that she had to do something to survive. That something was electronic music. Keiska has been her moniker for music related work since 2011.
As a teenager she started going to dubstep club nights held in Helsinki, and club music culture became her primary art education.
Her secondary art education was studying sound design and creative writing at The Theatre Academy of Helsinki. She graduated as a Master of Sound Design in 2023.
Ojala has performed live probably over fifty times since the last eleven years and she has never played the same set twice.
Since the early 2010s she has been constantly trying to expand her artistic endeavours. Semi-recent experiments include solo exhibition at Helsinki's Lou Gallery (2024) and multiple live perfomances involving spoken-word performance. She wrote/produced audio essay about the experience of being transgender in 2023 for the Finnish national radio YLE. Ojala also writes poetry, non-fiction and cultural criticism.
keiska.bandcamp.com
Wilson Tanner Smith
Photo: Olena Kryvoruchko
Wilson Tanner Smith (FI/USA) is a Helsinki-based cellist, composer, improviser, and theatre artist whose work at the edges between music and theatre is rooted in mirroring the alienating, absurd, silly or senseless signals we receive from the world around us, in order to cultivate an awareness of the relationships we have with the people, systems, and structures we live with. Works like “Good Job Living!” and “We have gathered here today” have drawn inspiration from the presentation of identity in daily life, alienation in commercial/consumer culture, and our relationships with social media, artificial intelligence, and Big Data. He often uses DIY and found materials and a playful relationship with the fourth wall to offer a pervasive questioning of performance as a communicative medium.
His most recent large scale interdisciplinary work, “Super normal things” was premiered at the Deutsches SchauSpeilHaus (Hamburg) and TD Berlin’s MonologFest, created in collaboration with New Delhi-based playwright Gaurav Singh Nijjer—a multimedia hybrid live/remote performance about the lived emotional experience of a world in seemingly-perpetual, overlapping, and increasing crisis.
As a sought-after composer/improviser he frequently collaborates across music, theatre, dance, and multimedia creation, with a musical sensibility informed by free improvisation, free jazz, and deep listening, and by many cross-cultural/-genre collaborations in diverse musical communities in Chicago and across northern/western Europe. He has performed at venues such as the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Estonia Kontserdisaal, Constellation (Chicago), and O Teart Theatre Lab (Guadalajara). He releases music under his own name, most recently Perpetual Guest, a series of solo cello and harmonium recordings made at the defunct Kreenholm Textile Factory at the Estonian-Russian border in Narva, Estonia. He is also a member of the improvising quartet Mad Myth Science, whose debut album was released August 2023 to acclaim from The Wire, the Quietus, Chicago Reader, and Stereogum.
He earned a Master’s in Contemporary Performance and Composition in 2024 from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, with visiting studies at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Stockholm), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Smith has held artistic residencies and developed projects at the Ligeti Center’s Sustainable Theatre Lab in collaboration with the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus, Pavillon K (DK), the Sasso Residency (CH), Ung Nordisk Musik (FI), ActInArt (IS), and the Narva Art Residency (EE).
www.wilsontannersmith.com