I’ve learnt to work with and within insecurity. It might even be that many times I have actively chosen the lack of certainty. Rather than a disruption, not-knowing the outcome has been a method in my life and work. In early 2020 Andrew Gryf Paterson...

How to plan a festival based on open calls? Our Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival #Burn____ Open Call for Audio was announced the day after Winter Solstice, looking towards the festival planned for 6.-13. June 2021, a few weeks before mid-summer. I write to...

Is with great pride that Pixelache Helsinki is officially welcoming Laura Gustafsson as the co-director of the Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival! She will direct the next festival with Pixelache board member Andrew Gryf Paterson. Laura Gustafsson (1983) is a...

Pixelache welcomes submissions to the Second Open Call for its 2021 Festival in Helsinki, 6-13th June, with a focus explicitly on audio-based contributions for the planned festival RADIO -stream. This audio programme will be presented locally as a public...

How to respond to submissions to an open call? Our Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival 1st Open Call was one of the concerns during Spring and early Summer 2020 for Pixelache production office. A few months earlier in April, as part of that production office,...

The ambition was to try and write an open open call for a transdisciplinary arts festival. One where the theme is laid out on the table, thrown into the air, catching the breeze of joy and discontent. Dropped in an ocean, opened at any page in a book. There...

Pixelache Festival 2021 Open Call Pixelache Helsinki is a Transdisciplinary Platform for Emerging Art, Design, Research and Activism, organised by the non-profit association Piknik Frequency ry. It consists of an annual festival in Helsinki, as well as...

Pixelache's #Burn____ theme is unique in Pixelache's long and varied history of thematic premises, in that it takes place over a two year period. Its two parts are comprised of, in short form: #Burn____ 2020 "Program" - which is an incubation and...

As most European & international cultural associations, organisations, collectives or freelancers adjust their patterns of activity in the context of safe practices related to Covid-19 (novel Coronavirus), Pixelache Helsinki & Network promotes the...

Photos by Antti Ahonen The nights proceedings commenced with Program Facilitator, Andrew Paterson, reading from his freshly penned #Burn____ Open Call, this was followed by a preview of the 2020 programing by producer Steve Maher. First act of the night -...

A creative text written by Andrew Gryf Paterson, expanding upon the theme #Burn____ which connects our Pixelache programme 2020, towards the next Pixelache Helsinki 2021 Festival. Paterson is the initiator and lead facilitator of the festival, scheduled to...

Pixelache is excited to announce the dates and locations for some of our early 2020 projects under the thematic mantle of #Burn____. Pixelache's 2020 #Burn____ programme is comprised of projects which are facilitated by members of our association. The...