A sculpture buried by ANTI Festival to be removed from its grave – welcome to take your own piece of Artefact!

Media release 5.3.2020

In 2016, the Australian artists Willoh S Weiland and JR Brennan created the unforgettable production Artefact, performed with hundreds of local participants in Kuopio, Finland. The work was being edited into a remarkable film that was screened in the 2017 programmes of ANTI Festival and Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.

As a part of the Artefact performance we buried a 12 tonne stone into a wasteland of Kuopio. The Artefact saga will continue next week as the stone has to be removed due to a building project in the area.

We now invite the participants of the Artefact project as well as other audiences to the grave of the Artefact to witness the stone coming up and disappearing again. For technical reasons we will crush the stone into pieces and bury it into another location.

Welcome on Wednesday 11th March at 4 pm.
Address: “Technopolis park”, Savilahdentie 4, Kuopio, Finland

For more information: Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005

Artefact 2016

Artefact by Willoh S Weiland and JR Brennan was a funeral for obsolete technology. It commemorated the mysterious phenomenon of brand disappearance from Blackberry, to Nokia. It was a tribute to the immortal consumer icons we have internationally adored and the intimate and fickle ways we worship them. It farewelled the products that have formed us with performance, sound, documentary and pathos.

Created with the community of Kuopio and featured some of its best loved choirs, death metal singers and a living timeline of children to senior citizen – Artefact was an invitation to the city to celebrate the relationships they have with their own magical artefacts.

Willoh S Weiland is the 2015 winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, and Artefact was a commissioned work of the Prize.