14/08/2026
DRIFTS FESTIVAL starts in a week: 20–24 August 2026! 🌊
The festival takes place this year at Oil Silo 468 in Kruunuvuorenranta and at Kulttuurisauna in Merihaka.
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Continuing the theme of Unknown Territories, this year’s edition will focus on Oceans:
“The ocean is a fluid space of connection and circulation, where bodies, materials, histories, and ecologies continuously transform through relation. Unknown Territories explores how oceans shape cultural imaginaries while critically engaging with histories of trade, extraction, and industrialisation and their lasting impacts on ecological degradation. Across coastlines and the deep sea, memories of migration, struggle, survival, myth, ritual, sonic and oral traditions resonate, revealing the entangled worlds of human and more-than-human life.”
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The festival presents Anna Pehrsson’s (SE) performance Mountainbuilding in collaboration with Nordic Culture Point at Oil Silo 468 on Thursday, 20 August, at 20:20.
👉 In Mountainbuilding, the movements of the mountain and the body meet, and human perception encounters processes that operate beyond our understanding of consciousness, time and existence. Over the course of three hours, Anna Pehrsson, together with dancers Ulrika Berg and Hana Erdman and with music by Shida Shahabi and Hampus Norén, shapes a landscape of movement and stillness, where the present interacts with the primordial and the ephemeral is enveloped by the geologically slow.
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🔗 Find the full festival programme at https://drifts.art/.