ABOUT
The Puijo Hill 3-Day is a durational performance that uses walking as a means to explore one's connection to others. Based on athletic events organized to raise funds, develop awareness, and bring people together, the work asks others to participate in a group activity which defines its cause individually and personally. There is NO FEE and participants are encouraged to have friends and family join them for the event.
Chicago-based artist, Regin Igloria, takes on the task of hiking up and down a hill that runs along Puijo Ridge, the famous landmark of Kuopio, Finland. Over the course of three days at the ANTI Festival, others may join him on his walk, while "at-home" participants determine a route and setting of their own.
This project is part of an ongoing series of performance hikes done by the artist which explore movement found within the natural environment, mostly of the kind experienced among the privileged in the travel and tourism industry. The artist interprets the struggle, challenge, and opposition encountered in everyday life through physical activity. Like his drawings and 2-D works, these works embrace an athletic tone, as if taking on the tedium of training and exercising. He constantly asks, ‘How well, how fast, how long, and how much better can one handle the hard work...and is it ultimately worth doing?'