In 2022, Drifts festival focused on the theme “Ghosts” to critically think about the diverse conditions that haunt our present. Ghosts give us space to reflect on societal fears and ghostly presences; to encounter beings and histories that have been forgotten, are conflictual, or cannot be fully understood nor explained; to go deeper into practices that delve into spiritual tropes, realms, rituals, and spells. 

Participants
Ho Tzu Nyen, Emmi Venna, Sung Hwan Kim, Pan Daijing, Niko Hallikainen, Ana Vaz, Flora Yin Wong, M.E.S.H. Teo Ala-Ruona, Ayoung Kim, Elvin Brandhi, KAIROS, Jeamin Cha, Hanna Heilborn and David Aronowitsch, Enna Bae, Ahmed Al Nawas, Nural Moser, Sonya Schönberger, Foundland, David Muñoz Alcántara, Jasmin Mora, Angel Ninja-Merak, Kristiina Männikkö, Youngle Keem, Jeamin Cha, Inhwan Oh, Heatlace, Hanna Maria Anttila, Topology, Lotta Petronella

Artistic Director
Soko Hwang
Collaboration Artistic Director
Giovanna Esposito Yussif
Curators
Enna Bae, Linda Lazarov, Marianne Savallampi

Partners
Cultural Centre Stoa, Saastamoinen Foundation, Museum of Impossible Forms, AV-ARKKI, Wenla Bar
Supporters
TAIKE-Art Promotion Centre Finland, TelepART, Finnish Institute UK, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, Konstasamfundet, City of Helsinki, Oskar Oflund foundation, Goethe Institut Finnland
Media Suppoters
Pixelache, Myymala2