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

Waterways begins in 2025 with a series of site-responsive artworks: a two-part work Lilluminen consisting of a live performance and a video work by choreographer Anna Mustonen and audio play Etiological Hydro Disruption Report (EHDR) by performance artist Teo Ala-Ruona.

The works premiere at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio in September 2025. The exact times and places of the performances will be announced later.