Vesireitit (Waterways)

Vesireitit (eng. Waterways) is a multidisciplinary project that explores various human relationships with the landscape of Eastern Finland. The artists involved in the project each have either a physical relationship with the Eastern Finnish landscape, or their practice deconstructs the social and political relations tied to place, ownership, and belonging.

Vesireitit examines the mythical, ideological, and emotional dimensions of Eastern Finland’s bodies of water—dimensions tied to purity, clarity, and a “special relationship with nature,” as well as the magical melancholy of bright summer nights, the warmth of smooth cliffs, and the transience of life. The starting point of Vesireitit is the movement of place, time, and being within the landscape: how it feels in the body to be part of something incomprehensibly vast, and how the landscape simultaneously affects living bodies.

The series is curated by i dolci’s founding member Riikka Thitz.

Schedule

Vesireitit begins in 2025 with a series of site-responsive artworks.

💧String Quartet, an interdisciplinary work by choreographer and visual artist Anne Naukkarinen and composer Leevi Räsänen that premiered in Ruokolahti in August 2025.

💧Lilluminen, a two-part work consisting of a live performance and a video work by choreographer Anna Mustonen and the audio play Etiological Hydro Disruption Report (EHDR) by performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona premiered at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio in September 2025.