Festival artists and works according to site:
Viikkosavo newspaper
PATH – A journey from the park to the square by Emma Puikkonen (FI) and Selja Ahava-Foster (FI) is a text and a route for which the instructions will be published in the Viikkosavo newspaper. You can wander through it in the newspaper, in your imagination or in the town. Writer Puikkonen and dramaturge Ahava-Foster are interested in a relationship between text, image and space.
The sound installation Words – Axes, after whose stroke the wood rings by Johanna Väisänen (FI) can be heard in front of the editorial office of Viikkosavo on the Kauppakatu street throughout the festival. Väisänen is a Kuopio-based artist working widely with video, installation, photography and sound.
Vasikkasaari Island
Simon Whitehead (UK) invites the citizens to donate offerings to burn in a beacon for his work BURN in front of the Vasikkasaari island. The audience may join the artist in piling up the beacon by reserving a personal boat ride to the Vasikkasaari island. Whitehead, visiting Finland for the first time, has based his works on human, sense-specific dimensions and a central starting point in his works is moving about on foot.
Aaron Williamson (UK) will try to communicate back to the mainland from the shores of the Vasikkasaari island with a megaphone in his work Shouting Island. Having worked and performed globally, Williamson will now be performing for the first time in Finland. His experience of becoming deaf forms an underlying aspect in his works.
Osuuspankki Bank
UK artist activist collective of one, the vacuum cleaner, will give away 1.000 euros in 1 euro cent coins in front of the Osuuspankki Bank in Kuopio. Everyone who wishes may take as many coins along as they can carry but, however, you can only change them into bigger coins at another bank. Whoever said there was no such thing as a free lunch was a liar!
Rosie Dennis (AU) amazes the Osuuspankki Bank clients with her international breakthrough piece, Access All Areas, which geniously combines dance, theatre and music. This work has travelled around the world and will now be seen for the first time in Finland.
Community College
Rebekah Rousi (AU/FI) will hold a PowerPoint presentation on the subject ”Culturalism in integrated Life Long Learning” in her work The Longest lecture marathon. Rousi will try to hold the longest known PowerPoint lecture in the world, in total 26.5 hours – on the appropriate subject of life-long learning! The Australian-born Rousi is currently working in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Uppo-Nalle playground
The artist duet Panther (AU) examines the children’s park as a world consisting of various worlds in their work ANTI playground – a new world order. The Panther duet has focused on changing cultural trend through their works into intimate live art events.
Andy Best (UK/FI) and Merja Puustinen (FI) will invite children and other child-minded to jump around in their physically interactive installation I’m laughing my guts out. Best & Puustinen are pioneers in media art and they currently carry out large-scale installations and interactive works.
Theatre Square Grill
The audience can select their favorite dance work in the grill menu of Satu Palokangas (FI). This work is a dance menu, which the audience may use or interpret. Palokangas is a dancer/performance artist, Laban Movement Analyst and a trainer of somatic movement.
Skateboarding Spot
Niran Baibulat (FI) will work daily at the Savilahdentie skateboarding spot preparing an environmental work. The works of Baibulat are often small scale and based on handwork techniques.
In addition:
Claire Blundell Jones (UK) will bring along tumbleweeds from the mythical American West and will roll them on the city streets. The British comedian Stuart Silver will perform at the Intro restaurant.