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2025

Haurauden voima (2025)
A series of sculptures created for tropical orchids, developed in collaboration with biologist Janne Aho.
Solo exhibition at Turku University Botanic Garden greenhouses (FI)
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi

2025

Modes of existence & Anatomy of Doubtful Nature (2025)
Sculptures in group exhibition Kuvan Kevät 2025, curated by Nina Liebenberg.
University of the Arts Helsinki (FI)
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi

2024

Solastalgia (2024)
17:12 minute work for soprano saxophone, piano, percussion and electronics.
Commissioned by Trio Abstrakt: Marlies Debacker, Salim[a] Javaid, Shiau-Shiuan Hung, Tamara Kurkiewicz.
Premiered on 27 September 2024 at Sankt Peters, Cologne (DE)
Photos © Rebekka ter Braak

Recording from the premiere: Sankt Peters, Cologne

Excerpts from the score
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi

2024

Alzheimer (2024)
For the group exhibition Seeste curated by Louna Haapavaara and Jasmin Virtanen
Vapaan Taiteen tila Helsinki (FI) 10.–14.07.2024
Audio and video 10 min

The exhibition Seeste approached boredom as slowed time, dense atmosphere, and the imprints of bodies in space. Themes such as temporality, repetition, liminality, and rest connect to this exploration. The works and their installation highlight the shifting relationship between viewer and environment, inviting reflection on waiting rooms, corridors, thresholds, and domestic spaces.

Alzheimer is a conceptual video installation about memory. As heartbreaking as it has been to see my grandmother’s memory fade away during the years, I have also seen the depth of the mind revealing when it slowly empties. How it is constructed of layers, like curtains of time, with the things that have moved and brought us happines on them.

2024

Trauma Responses: That living Thing (2024)
Audiovisual live show 30 min
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi, Rajatonvimma, Susse Seppälä

2023

Seed Of Symbiosis II (2023)
Audio and video 4:00min
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi

The audiovisual piece is a study on the electrical activity of the Flammulina velutipes fungus and the visual diversity of the Finnish lichen species. With the intervention of Sulalampi, through digital sonification, the voltage fluctuation measured from the mushroom is transformed into a musical sound. The magnifying camera lens reveals excerpts from the microscopic reality of lichens beyond the limits of the human eye.

It is common to measure, translate and name the creatures and phenomena we encounter. Sometimes, in our efforts to explain the world, we forget that the objects have their own voice. Every environment and even its silent components have their own acoustic properties that we can become sensitive to.

The data measured on Flammulina velutipes, which serves as the inspiration for the piece, comes from a study conducted by computer science professor Andrew Adamatzky in 2021 (Creative commons).

2023

Gatherings with the Silent (sculptures) (2023)
ceramics, glazes, 24-channel 3D component audio system
100 x 30 x 60 cm
70 x 20 x 20 cm
In the group exhibition As You May Sense.
Co-curated by Samir Bhowmik and Jussi Parikka @Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki (FI)
University of the Arts artistic research pavilion collaboration with Helsinki Biennial 2023
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi and Lauri Lähteenmäki

By wandering in the land of lichens I found that they have a bright, clear voice resonating through the environments they inhabit. It is a voice of co-existence, collaboration, re-inventing and indicating. I am imagining a time, a landscape, when human actions have faded, where the lichens have evolved to a point that their structures do make audible sounds. Their majestical pipes and horns are howling in dissonances in forests and deserts and the eart vibrates. Water streams flowing through their pits and holes rushing and roaring. Rain drops resonating in their bowls. Marvellous polyphonic composition of these symbiotic beings.

2022

Seed Of Symbiosis III: Lost in data (2022)
Multimedia composition for three performers, electronics and video
14 min
Commission by ensemble K!ART:
Mikkel Schou (video)
Hsiao-Tung Yuan (vocals, performance)
Joss Smith (audio)
Premiere: MINU-festival Copenhagen 2022 (DK)
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi

Sulalampi’s ‘SOS III: Lost in data’ continues her interest in symbiotic relationships of different mediums. The work explores the electrical activity of fungi as compared to human languages and the effects of scientific naming on perception.

“I’m grateful for all the fungi and microorganisms around the globe. Not only because they created our existence today but because they will be here when we are gone.” - Johanna Sulalampi

2021

RestartingAwareness (2021)
Multimedia performance for one performer, VR, projection and audio
8:30 min
Premiere: Ung Nordisk Music-festival Århus 2021 (DK)
Photos © Johanna Sulalampi

Restarting Awareness is an audiovisual piece performed with VR set by Sulalampi herself. In this piece the virtual world becomes the musical instrument. The sound with visual projection from the VR world and the kinetic movement of the performer composes the narration around the fantasy. The fantasy proposes a shared awareness between a computer and its user.

JOHANNA SULALAMPI AKA TRAUMA RESPONSES