Advisory Board

Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and its political potential. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is a witness and an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of a Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the ANTI Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award.Tania is the director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College in New York.

Season Butler
Season Butler is a writer, artist and dramaturg. She thinks a lot about youth and old age; solitude and community; negotiations with hope and what it means to look forward to an increasingly wily future. Her recent artwork has appeared in the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Tate Exchange, the Latvian National Museum (LV) and Hotel Maria Kapel (NL). Her debut novel, Cygnet, was published in spring 2019 and won the Writers’ Guild 2020 Award for Best First Novel. She is currently a research fellow of the Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung.

River Lin
River Lin is a performance artist working across the contexts of visual art, dance and queer culture through making, researching, and curating. River’s work has been presented by the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, Centre National de la Danse, KANAL Centre Pompidou, ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Live Art Development Agency, M+ Museum and Rockbund Art Museum among others. With concerns of performing cultural infrastructures, he has, since 2017, initiated and curated the network-based project ADAM (Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary) with Taipei Performing Arts Centre to facilitate artists from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond in exchange, generating discourses and development of Live Art and interdisciplinary performance for the region. Born in 1984 in Taiwan, River lives and works between Paris and Taipei.

Advisory Board to Support the Artistic Planning of ANTI Festival

News26.1.20232.2.2023

The international Advisory Board provides support and sparring to the artistic planning of ANTI Festival and the work of Lead Curator Elisa Itkonen.

The international Advisory Board of ANTI Festival comprises experts in international live art. The board members are writer-researcher Season Butler (Germany), artist-researcher Tania El Khoury (Lebanon/United States) and artist-curator River Lin (Taiwan/France). The board began its activities in the autumn of 2022 and will initially work for a one-year term.

– ANTI Festival has always had two curators. We’re also currently involved in several international and Finnish collaborative projects, in which I’m making programming choices together with my colleagues. Because of this, it’s not currently the time to appoint a second curator to the ANTI Festival. However, a multivoiced curating model is definitely also the way to go in the future. The cooperation with Season, Tania and River moves us forward towards this goal, says Elisa Itkonen, Lead Curator, ANTI Festival.

Itkonen describes the festival’s partnership-based curating process in more detail in her ANTIZINE article from last year.