Safe Company, a work set in a post-apocalyptic world, depicts what may be the last humans on Earth: a group working at an abandoned radio station, striving to record and organize the history of a lost way of life. A long time has passed since the destruction, and the meanings of the biological and cultural remnants stored in the station’s vaults have largely faded into obscurity. Through the care of the collection and research-based and ritual practices of their own making, the remaining individuals reach from the history of devastation and fragments of memory toward a new, imagined future.
Safe Company will be performed at the old shortwave radio station in Pori on 8.–10.2026, marking 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident on 26.4.1986. Radio broadcasting activities at the shortwave station ended one year after the Chernobyl disaster – the final transmission from the station took place on 1.6.1987.
The title of the work refers to the Mosler Safe Company, whose bank vaults survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War. The contents of the vaults remained intact, even though they were located in close proximity to the center of the explosion.
