Lost Farm's artist-in-residency  program has invited the award-winning artist, composer, and performer Hanna Tuulikki to develop – through active research and visits spanning over two years-  a very exciting project culminating in a new commission for 2026.

Hanna Tuulikki attended for the first time Lost Farm in 2024 at the Odden Sauna Festival where she took the saunagoers on a journey of meditative discovery of what it's like to sweat together inside the belly of a whale, opening our senses with scent and sound to expand the imagination into an awareness of our own inner whaleness.

Over the years Hanna Tuulikki has specialized in telling stories of reworlding in times of biospheric crisis. Through her practice, she offers alternative approaches to embracing, sensing, and making space to encounter the complex emotions that come with ecological awareness.

She will be part of the Lost Farm Festival 2025 program while she continues her exploration of the local landscape and ecology, and further development of her ongoing whale-being research at the Lost Farm’s artist in residency. What her contribution to this year's festival will be is, however, yet to be announced.

So keep an eye on the sea and an ear on the Lost Farm Barn to eavesdrop on the latest news.

Hanna Tuulikki is a critically acclaimed British-Finnish artist, composer, and performer based in Scotland. Her multi-disciplinary projects investigate how the body communicates beyond and before words, to tell stories through imitation, vocalization, and gesture. With a largely place-responsive process, she considers how bodily relationships and folk histories are encoded within specific environments, ecologies, and places. She has among others won the prestigious Oram Award in 2024 and has, likewise in 2024, been shortlisted for the Ivor Novello Award for Sound Art.

Hanna Tuulikki på Lost Farm Festival is supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation.

Photo: Hanna Tuulikki, ‘Seals’kin’, 2022, film still.