1 month to ANTI Festival 14.-19.9.2021 – book your seats!
Media release 17.8.2021
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will be organised between 14th and 19th September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. Please book your seats (0€) to our performances and workshops in advance, we have opened our booking system today!
For the bookings, go to our website: antifestival.com/en/programme
In addition to performances, we offer exhibitions that can be experienced without seat reservations in public spaces.
We have designed ANTI Festival 2021 to take into account everything needed for a COVID safe festival experience. Several artworks can be experienced alone or in small groups, for example. See our guidelines here: antifestival.com/en/covid-19
Join the ANTI 2021 Facebook event here (link)!
For more information, contact Festival Manager Elisa Itkonen:
elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005
Book now!
Below we present performances with a very limited audience capasity. We recommend to book your seats immediately.
See the exact schedules and venues, and make bookings through our online booking system at antifestival.com/en/programme!
600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call
8.-18.9. YES, we will take a head start to the festival!
Several time slots
Only 1 seat/performance!
A map for finding one another through distance. A performance about communion, distance, and reconnection from one of the world’s most acclaimed theater companies.
600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter
14.-19.9. several time slots
Only 2 seats/performance!
A performance in which you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools.
WAUHAUS (FI): A Great Mess
TUE 14.9.2021 / 18.00 (in Finnish)
WED 15.9.2021 / 18.00 (in Finnish)
THU 16.9.2021 / 18.00 (in Finnish)
SAT 18.9.2021 / 18.00 (in English)
A site-sensitive performance that transports us to a waste disposal site – the largest landfill in the Eastern Finland. It offers a glimpse into a world where humans no longer see themselves as the centre of the universe.
Reality Research Center, Emelie Zilliacus & Martin Paul (FI): Exhibit (image above)
WED 15.9.2021 / 19.00 & 22.00
THU 16.9.2021 / 14.00, 19.00 & 22.00
SAT 18.9.2021 / 12.00 & 17.00
SUN 19.9.2021 / 12.00 & 14.00
Only 10 seats/performance!
Who decides what art should be seen and produced? The funders, the artists, the audience? What are the relations of these three in making a performance? This is an impossible performance, no-one knows the content of it, not even the festival arrangers.
Ensure your seat to Shortlist LIVE! performances
Shortlist LIVE! Programme presents performances by the artists shortlisted for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. The audience capasity of the performances is very limited.
Florentina Holzinger (AT): Apollon
FRI 17.9.2021 / 19.00
Six women tackle the neoliberalist cult of the body with all their performative brilliance and vicious physical virtuosity. The performance limbos between the aesthetics of an occult fitness-studio, a cyborg-bullfight and neoclassical ballet.
Narcissister (US): Narcissister Live(s)
FRI 17.9.2021 / 21.30
The New York based artist and performer Narcissister presents an evening-length set consisting of video and live performance works from her repertoire.
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK): The tremble
SAT 18.9.2021 / 13.00 – 16.00 / durational
The work enacts a choreographic mediation on the relationships between touch, intimacy, loss and collectivity.
Visitors will be admitted on a first-come-first-served basis. Ensure your seat to the beginning of the performance by making a reservation!
keyon gaskin (US): its not a thing
SAT 18.9.2021 / 16.30
keyon gaskin prefers not to contextualize with their credentials.