Verneri Pääkkö is a sound-based artist working mainly in
music and contemporary performing arts
recent:
Guest Composer @ Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm
collage by Ofem Ubi
Text laboratory @ The House of text
Saaren Kartano residency w/ Hard Things to Swallow working group
Vili Aarre - sunnyside EP
VENI @ GALLERIA LOISTI 05/2025
Straight acting @ espoon teatteri &
Veljelleni @ the finnish national theater
What would Samira do @ Finnish Broadcasting Company
Vili Aarre (voice by Asiya Wadud)
a sound & text fiction
Runokuu // Poetry Moon festival
The Finnish National Theater, Sandqvist/Karhu
Monologue for four actors about the hate-love relationship of symbiotic siblings where the everyday melts into queer and the innocent sincerity into perviness.
Diealong (2021)MA Thesis work of Johanna Karlberg / Theatre Academy – (noun) the informal dying of different deaths by a group of people
“It’s nice to have a good old-fashioned diealong now and again.”
w/ Corinne Mustonen, Premiere Galleria Loisti
Veni is a fine-tuned contemporary performance - a return to the craft, without irony or postmodern commentaries. It is a sincere attempt for a divine intervention.
is a performance that draws its material from existing, stolen and imitated material. The performance attempts to understand the other by copying, cutting and pasting. All text in the performance originate from the Reddit discussion thread: r/CopySpaghetti
Straight Acting (2023) is actor Anssi Niemi’s brash solo performance about internalized homophobia and fulfilling the image of a convincing male actor. It’s about credibility, the tension between the stage and sexuality, and the relationship between identity and role.