LIVING ROOM
Short film with Juha Penttilä
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MUSH-ROOM
Performance
Humina Demolition Festival
28.11.2026, 18.00
Humina space, Helsinki
LIVING ROOM is a short dance film by Georgie Goater and Juha Penttilä that explores the poetics of the body’s intimate relation to domestic space and its nonhuman cohabitants. As the aliveness of things seeps into the perceptual field, the self disperses: into furniture, dust, light and shadow. Mundane details become maps to different times and places; portals flicker open to other landscapes, unsettling the distinction between inside and outside. A continuum of animacy shimmers across bodies and things in the shared porosity of body and house, each inhabiting and hosting the uncontainable.
“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It’s not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that…” — Leonora Carrington
“We are all stardust. Also, we're household dust.” — LIVING ROOM, 2021
Conceived and filmed in 2021, the work has been fermenting in the editing suite and was produced in 2026.
Duration: 9 minutes
Concept: Georgie Goater & Juha Penttilä
Videography and editing: Juha Penttilä
Performance and editing: Georgie Goater
Support: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Samuel Huber
MUSH-ROOM is a movement and sound performance that tugs at the threads of the LIVING ROOM short film, releasing them into the ephemeral space of Humina. The audience is invited to tune their senses and witness as spores, carrying stray remnants of memory and matter forward through Humina’s imminent debris, into its imagined future and our collective futures.
