Shortlist LIVE!

See detailed info of the Shortlist LIVE! programme presented in Shortlist LIVE! programme page.

Shortlisted artists

Tiziano Cruz is from a town called San Francisco that belongs to the Valle Grande department of the province of Jujuy, in the north of Argentina. He was born and raised on the border between Chile and Bolivia, lands through which nine indigenous communities have passed; the Atacama, the Kollas, the Guaraníes, the Tobas, the Ocloyas, the Omaguacas, the Tilianes and the Toaras. Cruz now shares the stories of these oppressed communities through his artistic work. His work fundamentally brings together the visual and theatrical language, performance, and artistic intervention of public space.

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video and text. Drawing from her training in theatre and the psychology of group dynamics, Autumn Knight makes performances that reshape perceptions of race, gender, and authority. She scrutinizes institutional spaces that regulate African American subjects or that assert their absence, often putting black women at the center of the conversation to usurp the dynamics of a room with humor and with purpose.

Jota Mombaça, is a Brazilian artist who Lives and works between Lisbon, Portugal; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Mombaça is an interdisciplinary artist whose work derives from poetry, critical theory, and performance. The sonic and visual matter of words plays an important role in their practice, which often relates to anti-colonial critique and gender disobedience. Through performance, visionary fiction, and situational strategies of knowledge production, they intend to rehearse the end of the world as we know it and the figuration of what comes after we dislodge the Modern-Colonial subject off its podium.

Joshua Serafin is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines dance, performance, visual arts, and choreography. Born in the Philippines, they are currently based in Brussels. Their works deal with questions about identity, transmigration, queer politics and representation, states of being, and ways of inhabiting the body. Whether performing on stage, inside the museum, or through video and photography, Serafin’s artistic process is an intense sociological exorcism of Filipino identity with hybridity of the western ideologies; unpacking the historical violence of its feudal contemporary society and its dehumanising normality.

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The 2023 Live Art Prize shortlist & Shortlist LIVE! programme

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In September 2023 the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded for the 10th time in Kuopio, Finland.

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).

“While each of them comes from a unique artistic and geographical background, these artists are all exceptional change-makers in Live Art. They invite us to engage socio-political and ecological realities outside of Eurocentric systems and show us what it means to dream and practice alternative futures”, the shortlisting committee, Pelin Başaran, John Tain and Elisa Itkonen, writes about the shortlist.

This year the ANTI Festival Prize for Live Art will be awarded for the 10^th time in its history. The Shortlist LIVE! programme presents the nominees’ performances live during the ANTI Festival taking place in Kuopio. 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.

10th Anniversary of the Live Art Prize

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.

An international jury considers the nominees’ work from the past few years and experiences their recent works in the Shortlist LIVE! programme together with other audiences.

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.