Shadow Concert (Varjo Konsertti) – KEHO (Body)

Held in 2025, Shadow Concert – KEHO was Shadow Room's first experiment with a multi-arts concert as a new event format. In the concert, artists from different disciplines built a shared world and a shared moment out of their own forms of expression.

In the hour-and-a-half performance, installation art, body art, theatre, experimental soundscapes, black metal, contemporary dance and media art collided with one another.

The installation a Shade – Eräs Varjo formed an archive of corporeality around the audience. In the work, X-ray images of 720 anonymous people who died long ago formed a mosaic depicting the human body after the end of life.

At the same time, the media artwork Into My Skin showed ink being drawn into a living human body here and now – a mark that stays with a person for a whole lifetime.

1

Stromateis – Saint Vitus Dance

The first part of the concert referred to the dancing mania in Strasbourg in 1518, when crowds of people danced uncontrollably.

Stromateis's prologue built a sonic and physical state of exception that spread through the audience like a social contagion. A microphone brought into the performance space gave the audience the chance to scream their own voices into the growing chaos, hysteria and soundscape.

2

HETHTE – He Exists to Tempt Humans Toward Evil

The second part of the concert sought liberation for the worn-out human being in the teachings of the Carpocratians. According to Carpocratian doctrine, a person must pass through every experience during their bodily life, so that the soul is left with no temptation to return to the material world.

The performance invited the audience to witness a ritual suspension of a chosen human body. The ritual closed the evening.

The first Shadow Concert was held with the support of the City of Vantaa.