From Here to Art Travel Agency
We invite you on unforgettable journeys – not across continents, but into someone else’s world. In this community-based art project, professional artists from various disciplines collaborate with local people to design one-of-a-kind trips into personal experiences, memories, desires, and identities. In the centre of travels there are questions: What would it be like to journey through your inner landscape? What transformations should happen – to the traveller, or the one being visited?
The agency offers an extraordinary selection of ways to get to know different communities, and other unexpected adventures. Some are one-on-one visits to someone’s home. Others are group expeditions through urban space, designed to make the familiar feel entirely new. The planet and its nature nurturing us all has a special place in the project. The travel agency operates both online and in a lovely trailer popping up here and there around Oulu, complete with its own set of bold brochures, maps, and surprising departures.
Our impact to Culture-
climate change
Living with climate change requires re-thinking travelling. From Here to Art Travel Agency offers climate friendly travelling to the next block. During the art trips different worldviews and ways of experiencing meet. There are borders close to you. You can cross them to travel further than by airplane. Often the most meaningful journey is a journey to another person.
When and where
Departures:
The Auntieverse – Stories of Making a Queer Home – LGBTIQ+ Choir 1.4.-11.4.
The River 7.4.-23.4.
Root Journey 10.5.
The Auntieverse 5.6.-18.6.
The Women of Karjasilta 14.6.-17.6.
Root Journey 17.-18.6.
Root Journey 24.-30.6.
Stories of Making a Queer Home – LGBTIQ+ Choir 26.5.-1.6.
Root Journey – performances 1.-6.7.
Stories of Making a Queer Home – LGBTIQ+ Choir 25.7.-8.8.
Fetish Journeys 3.8.-28.8.
Bone Garden 19.8.-21.8.
The River 22.8.-1.9.
Soil Walk 27.8., 29.8.
Toward Other Forms Workshop 30.8.
SWAMP – Walking Within the Frame 21.8.-30.8.
THIS IS MY PLACE 7.9.
Manual 9.-12.9.
Souvenir – A Journey Through Memory 24.9.
Homecoming 26.-29.11.
Travel to non-places -podcast I listen in heretoart.fi
Feel the Scenary – Virtual Tour I Visit the website heretoart.fi (in Finnish)
Celebrating Di s ta n c e and Proximity I visit onetooneart.eu
Beyond Survival: International Time Travel
International Time Travel brings Finnish and UK artists together to create community based artworks that speak to locals and visitors alike. The artworks offer participation to us who have experienced a past and look into a future, no matter what we see in there.
The International Time Travel program includes four journeys: The Auntieverse,, Stories from the Queer Choir, The River, and Down to Earth. Beyond Survival: International Time Travel is organized in collaboration with SICK! Festival, Oulu2026, the ILME Cultural Cooperative, and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland
Organisers
Cultural cooperative ILME, Entelechy arts, Proqvi, ANTI -contemporary art festival, SICK! Productions, Finnish British- and IrelReality research center and Hoivaitie and other organisations of social and health care