WAUHAUS and Jonatan Sundström

WAUHAUS is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary arts collective. The collective’s works are situated between different genres of art and they take place at various venues, such as small black box theatres, urban sites, large stadiums, and the main stages of established theatre houses. The members of WAUHAUS are scenographer Laura Haapakangas, director Juni Klein, scenographer Samuli Laine, sound designer Jussi Matikainen, choreographer Jarkko Partanen, sound designer Heidi Soidinsalo, producer Minttu-Maria Jäävuori and managing director Julia Hovi.

In Some Unexpected Remnants, WAUHAUS examines the temporal and material legacy of waste. The video piece lingers over Vuosaarenhuippu, a former landfill transformed into recreational land, and an active waste center in Kuopio. Through this slow, observational approach, they meditate on the lifespans of materials that society attempts to forget- landfills that outlive us, matter that never fully disappears, offering quiet, lingering engagement with entropy and renewal. The performance-based origins of the video are evident in its choreography of machines and landscapes, emphasizing the entanglement of natural and artificial rhythms. Their piece becomes a poetic artifact of slow decay and adaptation, showing how waste, like memory and land, breathes and mutates in silence.