Friday 21st – 15:45-17:00
Workshop 1: Embroidering the Memory Map of Europe with Riina Õun
Location: Itu Artlab – Kirkkokatu – Opposite City Hall
As one of the first year residents of Tiny Spaces, Riina travelled by public transport from Estonia to Greece and back, stopping in 16 countries. In each, she collaborated with local cultural organisations and individual creatives to capture the essence of place and moment through plant printing and hand embroidery on small fabric squares.
Over 115 fabric patches were created by more than 80 participants and have been assembled into a patchwork-like textile artwork: the Memory Map of Eastern Europe. This work documents connections, memories, and local narratives across the continent. The practice has proven to be a meaningful way to sit with people, share stories, and co-create.
During this workshop, Riina invites participants to extend the artwork by creating new squares, showing how collaborative, site-specific, and material-focused practices can support craft, foster community participation, and encourage interdisciplinary exchange.
No previous experience with textile craft is necessary, all materials will be provided.
Workshop 2: Sketching as an Atmospheric Method with Aleksandra Ianchenko
Location: Starts at Saari Library, ends at Oulu Train Station
The workshop focuses on the art&research method of observational drawing. This seemingly static method – one has to sit or stand to make a drawing – is mobilised via walking. In other words, participants will walk along a 1.5km route through Oulu.
Participants explore transport infrastructure/cycling routes and their atmospheres and document their observations in sketchbooks.
No specific skills are required. Simple drawing techniques will be introduced. All materials will be provided.
Unfortunately, Ika’s visa didn’t arrive in time so this workshop has been cancelled. Participants will be able to choose a different workshop in the morning at registration.
Workshop 3: HOW DO WE GET HERE? A Participatory Choreography of Arrival with Ika Yuliana
Location: Dance Studio 2 at Cultural Centre Valve
How Do We Get Here? is a participatory movement workshop that transforms the “privilege walk” exercise into a collective choreography of mobility. The work examines the infrastructures that make arrival possible: visas, passports, funding systems, geography, climate, and language and asks
how these conditions shape who can gather in Oulu. Participants begin in a shared line. Through a sequence of projected statements they respond with simple movements. The vocabulary expands to include kneeling, bending, lowering the gaze, or lying down. Gradually, the studio space becomes a living cartography of global asymmetry.
The workshop draws from Ika Yuliana’s long-term research project Anthropology of Failures, which explores how cities and institutions structure access and belonging. By turning policy into posture and infrastructure into gesture, the work makes visible the uneven conditions behind cultural mobility. Arrival is revealed not as neutral, but as negotiated, permitted, and embodied.
Workshop 4: MOVE – Choreographing the Public with Mischa Kuball (starting at Itu Artlab) PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP IS ALREADY FULLY BOOKED
Participants are presented with a selection of chairs and will choose one to carry with them during the workshop. With this familiar object, we will move through the city and explore our surroundings in new ways.
During a 60-minute collective walk and series of short actions, conceptual artist Mischa will guide participants, setting simple tasks that shift perspective and attention. The chair becomes a temporary tool: a place to pause, observe, and reframe the city. Through subtle movements and choreographic moments developed together we will discover unexpected viewpoints within a familiar urban landscape.
The workshop is open to 20 participants and encourages curiosity, attentiveness, and a willingness to see the city differently.