Layers in The Peace Machine is an immersive and multidisciplinary media-installation, entangling technology and art. Layers in the Peace Machine is one of the main productions of Oulu Cultural Capital year 2026. I have been working on the project since 2021.

Based on the literary work ”Peace Machine” by late Timo Honkela, the installation portrays peace as a dynamic process, that shifts and evolves with the interaction from the participants. 

Layers in The Peace Machine encourages the participant to reflect on their own relationship with peace and peace-related questions. What sort of memories, images and emotions arise? How to work towards a more peaceful world in everyday life?

Transforming multiple spaces at the Oulu City Hall, the artwork sheds light on the multifaceted concept of “building peace”. It offers diverse means to interact with the installation and other participants, through language, movement, senses and cognition.

The artwork is structured to emphasise the effects of these interactions on the work itself and other participants’ experiences. Through these means Layers in the Peace Machine is part of the dynamic discourse about actions, choices, mutual interactions and power, which all greatly affect the processes of peace.”

The installation will be free of charge and open from January to December 2026 at Oulu City Hall.

Working group

Ekho Collective / Calvin Guillot, Essi Huotari, Vertti Luostarinen, Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen, Sini Parikka, Ilmari Pesonen, Olivia Pohjola, Iina Taijonlahti and Timo Tikka.

Production Ulla Viskari-Perttu / Oulu Culture Foundation

Picture Ilmari Pesonen / Ekho Collective

https://oulu2026.eu/en/programme/culture-programme/layers-in-the-peace-machine/