Alex Baczynski-Jenkins won the 2021 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art
Media release 18.9.2021
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (Poland/UK) was announced as the 2021 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art on Saturday 18th September. Baczynski-Jenkins was revealed as the 8th winner of the prestigious prize during the ANTI Prize Party in Kuopio, Finland.
The 2021 shortlist comprised of four celebrated artists from across the globe: keyon gaskin (United States), Florentina Holzinger (Austria), Narcissister (United States), and Baczynski-Jenkins.
The prize, at €30,000, is one of the richest in the arts. ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art is the world’s only international prize dedicated to live art. The prize is funded by the Saastamoinen Foundation.
The phenomenal live works of the shortlisted artists were presented in the Shortlist LIVE! Programme, supported by The Kone Foundation, during the 2021 ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival.
In 2021, Curator and Counsellor of Culture Maria Lind (Sweden) worked as the Chair of Jury, and the other members of the jury were Professor Jennie Klein (United States), and Artist, Researcher Pilvi Porkola (Finland).
The jury considered the nominees’ work from the past few years through documentation – and experienced their recent works in the Shortlist LIVE! Programme together with other audiences.
The Jury states of the Winner:
”Alex Baczynski-Jenkins’ Tremble was mindful, gentle, and created a captivating non-judgmental space for how humans can relate to one another, in a shared space. The piece was modest in the best sense of the word. We really appreciate the variation in age, background, and training of the performers.
We chose Alex Baczynski-Jenkins as the recipient of this award because what was mentioned above, and also because of how his practice nurtures interdependence within and beyond performance – this is particularly urgent today.”
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK)
Artist and choreographer Alex Baczynski-Jenkins engages with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and interdependent poetics it invokes.
He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins won a 15 000€ cash prize and in addition a production support of the same amount to bring a new piece to ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2022.
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