Mika Kiviniemi: Vibrating Distance

Vibrating Distance is a multi-channel sound installation composed of various metal plates. The work seeks to materialize the sensation of distance - creating an audible and tactile experience of spatial separation.

The sounds produced by the plates are a kind of humming, cautious or fierce calls to communication - sudden bursts of the need to fill the surrounding distance. Each plate has its own sound track. The low murmur of restrained squares contrasts with the whining and scraping of twisted and rusted plates, conveying a certain friction between regularity and individual experience.

The exhibition is linked to the theme new northern. Artist Mika Kiviniemi describes his work as follows:

"The northern living environment and life contain a certain multifaceted experience of distance. For me, distance is neither positive nor negative. It is not a value, cause, or consequence. Rather, it is a space in which one exists and which one experiences. Distance is realized through remoteness and long distances, but also in the way people and nature exist, in sounds and landscapes. My work is a simulation of such distance experience, through sounds, surfaces, and sensations."

MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, 23.5.-17.6.2026. Tue-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00. Free admission.