SAAL3 vol 3: Lauri Lest, Andrus Aaslaid, Lisette-Marie Viilup

Lauri Lest is a musician, sound and performance artist. He creates and plays atmospheric electronic music, works with found objects, vibration speakers and sound and video editing software. His art can be described as melancholic, dreamy, experimental and sometimes humorous. He holds a degree in sculpture and installation from the Estonian Academy of Arts. As a musician, he creates and performs atmospheric electronic music and has released two studio albums.

Lisette-Marie Viilup is a dancer and performance artist who graduated from UT Viljandi Academy of Culture in 2024. Since then she has further educated herself at the Dance Department of the Berlin University of the Arts (HZT). She is interested in surreal states, bodily matter and the physicality of sound, exploring them through improvisation and her own specific innerworld . In addition to movement she sometimes uses her body as a mediator to experiment with sound and visuals. In her work one can perceive unearthly elements, nature and witness a constant transformation.

Andrus “Laid” Aaslaid is an enigma, a person about whom nobody truly knows who he is. He is an electronics engineer, visionary, and programmer—a puzzle of 2,500 pieces, but with a difference: while all the pieces are there and nothing is missing, it is still impossible to assemble.
In this context, the bare essentials are presented: he is an irreplaceable member of MIMproject (in fact, there are rumors that Laid himself is the mysterious Manfred Mim), a sound engineer, and the creator of the "sound wall” In MIMstudio (2015–2019). Additionally, he is one of the founders of elektron.art. Since 2019, Andrus Aaslaid has managed a venue for experimental (and other unknown) music called Cabaret Voltá. And yes, needless to say, he has helped two satellites make it into space.

Authors and performers: Lauri Lest, Andrus Aaslaid, Lisette-Marie Viilup
Curator: Maike Lond
Project manager: Kerly Ritval
Technical solutions and lighting design: Henry Kasch, Kaius Põder
Co-production: Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Maike Lond, Lauri Lest, Andrus Aaslaid, Lisette-Marie Viilup
Support: Eesti Kultuurkapital

Premiere: 14.12.2024
Duration: ~130'

The performances will be followed by an artist talk.