Cassils

Cassils is a transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances. Cassils’ art contemplates the history(s) of LGBTQI+ violence, representation, struggle, survival, empowerment and systems of care. For Cassils, performance is a form of social sculpture: Drawing from the idea that bodies are formed in relation to forces of power and social expectations, Cassils’ work excavates historical contexts to examine the present moment.

Cassils has had recent solo exhibitions at HOME Manchester, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC; Institute for Contemporary Art, AU; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Bemis Center, Omaha; MU Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Adelaide Bannerman

Adelaide Bannerman is a curator, and curatorial director of Tiwani Contemporary, an international commercial art gallery in London, UK and Lagos, Nigeria.

Her independent research interests valorise the gestures, readings and engagements with live and visual art performance. She is a trustee of PUBLICS Helsinki.

Giovanna Esposito Yussif

Giovanna Esposito Yussif engages with curatorial praxis and research. Her background is in art history, museology, and critical theory. Giovanna has a long-standing commitment to nondominant praxes, dissentient imaginations, epistemic plurality and epistemologies in resistance. In 2019 she curated the Pavilion of Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale with the Miracle Workers Collective. She is currently artistic director of the Museum of Impossible Forms, co-artistic of Drifts and the curator for M_itä biennale 2023.

Live Art Prize

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Cassils, Adelaide Bannerman and Giovanna Esposito Yussif are the Live Art Prize jury 2023

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This year the ANTI Festival Prize for Live Art will be awarded for the 10^th time in its history. An international jury considers the nominees’ work from the past few years and announces the winner of the award at the ANTI Prize Party on Saturday 16^th September 2023.

In honour of the 10th anniversary of the Prize, the first artist to win the award, Cassils (Canada/United States), has been invited as the chair of the jury. Other members of the jury are curator and curatorial director Adelaide Bannerman and curator, researcher Giovanna Esposito Yussif.

ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art is a unique award that marks, celebrates and supports extraordinary artists. On Saturday 16th September 2023 we will award the Prize for the 10th time in Kuopio. The nominees for the 2023 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art are: Tiziano Cruz (Argentina), Autumn Knight (United States), Jota Mombaça (Brazil) and Joshua Serafin (Philippines/Belgium).

The jury considers the nominees’ work from the past few years and experiences their recent works in the Shortlist LIVE! programme together with other audiences during ANTI Festival 2023.

The world’s only International Prize for Live Art is 30,000 euros, making it one of the richest cultural prizes in the arts. The winning artist receives a cash prize of 15,000 euros and the same amount in the form of a production grant for presenting a commissioned new work at the following year’s ANTI Festival.

The Prize is supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

Cassils

Adelaide Bannerman

Adelaide Bannerman is a curator, and curatorial director of Tiwani Contemporary, an international commercial art gallery in London, UK and Lagos, Nigeria.

Her independent research interests valorise the gestures, readings and engagements with live and visual art performance. She is a trustee of PUBLICS Helsinki.