House4Resistance: H.O.M.E

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴, 
𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵.. 

𝐇.𝐎.𝐌.𝐄 (𝐇ᵒˡᵈⁱⁿᵍ 𝐎ᵘʳ 𝐌ᵉᵐᵒʳⁱᵉˢ 𝐄ᵛᵉʳʸᵈᵃʸ) is a series of events that explores the home as a living archive of diasporic memory, bonding, care and ways of being. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳?

Across four weekends in November 2025, artists are invited to open their homes in Helsinki as intimate spaces for holding grief, pleasure, and solidarity. Through collective cooking, sewing, listening, and reimagining, everyday gestures and rituals that anchor us become practices of home-making, community care and resistance against a world that increasingly urges assimilation. 

The project was initiated and curated by Phan Nguyen as part of Pixelache Festival 2025 with the kind support from Arts Promotion Centre Taike and the City of Helsinki.

Events dates & time

1–2.11. Gladys Camilo – Grieving through Quilting
8.11.      Onur Tayranoğlu & Efemine – Helva of the dead
15.11.    Leik Silvestrini – The Metamorphosis
22.11.    Moe Mustafa 

All events are free and open to everyone!

Due to limited spaces, pre-registration for each event is required via https://linktr.ee/house4resistance . 

Poster design by Amanda Lono.

Participating Artists

𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚𝒔 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒐 (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice centres on sustainability and the natural world. Camilo’s work investigates how care—both as a labour and a material—shapes personal and collective identities. Her work is guided by an intuitive and emotive approach, often incorporating upcycled materials and natural dyes/pigments.

For H.O.M.E, Gladys will host a collective quilting gathering “Grieving through Quilting”.

𝑶𝒏𝒖𝒓 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒐ğ𝒍𝒖 is a transdisciplinary performance artist whose work explores the boundary between life and live art often situating artistic exploration in the grey areas between everyday life and artistic expression. Working across text, video, digital media, and installation, they employ performance and embodied-research processes to investigate the performativity beyond traditional art contexts, engaging with social, political, and cultural realities. 

𝑬𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 is an artist and producer from Istanbul, currently based in Helsinki, working with historical narratives and speculative storytelling through performance, text, and moving images. 

For H.O.M.E, Onur and Efe invite you to their home to share a moment of remembrance for those who are no longer with us. 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 is an intimate and participatory performance, inviting participants who are willing to share a table with the absent as part of their grief process.

𝑳𝒆𝒊𝒌 (they/them) is a queer non-binary Oslo-born and Helsinki-based performance- and visual artist; an observer, collector, feeler, doer and lover striving for warmth, trust, softness, openness and care in everything they do. Leik’s multifaceted works emerge from everyday encounters and explore topics of normativity, trust, and care through humor, playfulness, and performativity. 

For H.O.M.E, Leik will be creating 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒔, a performance queerly inspired by Kafka’s story of the same name. It is a work about trying to build a life, existential dread, stumbling and fumbling, falling and failing over and over.

𝑴𝒐𝒆 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒂 is a visual and sound artist, performer, and writer with an MA in Art and Media from Aalto University. His work spans text, sound, and performance, often focusing into themes of identity, memory, sexuality, and diaspora. His work investigates intersections of sound, politics, and emotion, with a focus on queer Arab experiences. 

For H.O.M.E, Moe will host an intimate gathering of sonic memory sharing and celebration. The event centers on sounds as a form of reimagining memory and everyday gestures like listening to music together as a powerful act of pleasure-centered solidarity and diasporic home-making.