The 2025 Ung Nordisk Musik Festival takes on technocracy in this mash-up of conference, stage, and dance—bringing together works that explore the bizarre, the omnipotent, and the achingly human sides of technology. Featuring a diverse group of international artists and performers from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States, Teater Viirus becomes a site of reckoning for our digital overlords.

Pay-what-you-wish tickets available:
https://www.viirus.fi/forestallningar/ung-nordisk-musik-festival
https://unmfestival.fi/

Language: English
Content warning: None
Duration: 2 hours

Search Engine Optimization (Sweden, Norway)
Composition, concept, and electronics: Evelin Lindberg
Performer: Myrsky Ylänen
Conferenciere: Elias Schomers

We have gathered here today (US, Finland)
Performer, co-creation: Wilson Tanner Smith
Co-creation: Lucas Xerxes
Live Electronics: Viktor Toikkanen

Unfold (Sweden)
Performer, concept: Malte Dag Rödström

Other Credits:
Event Producer: Haiyun Yu
Sound Design: Viktor Toikkanen
Light Design: Oskari Kalliomäki

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“We have gathered here today” is a multimedia cello-theatre performance rooted in gathering, expecting, presenting, projecting, waiting, and identifying. Who is this performer? Who is this audience? Why did [they] sit in [that] seat and not [that] one?

Exploding the framework of a cello recital which may or may not ever begin, its performer veers freely into psychological monologues, small talk, social media meditations, a research presentation, and data exhaustion. Sliding freely between the ordinary and the abstract, “we have gathered here today” examines our agency over how/when our identities and expressions happen, the ways in which social relations are data-driven encounters, and playfully probes the barriers and bridges involved in being your self, and in being strangers, here, together.