ANTI Festival 2017 relies on multidisciplinary collaboration
Media release 22.6.2017
ANTI Festival has built a programme of projects around water, and this year, as always, we will work in collaboration with varied local and international partners. Below some of our most exciting local collaboration projects!
Politics and Poetics of Water seminar
This year, ANTI Festival will organise a seminar in collaboration with Our Water-Conscious Land project, The University of Eastern Finland and branding company Ad Kiivi. The seminar presents contributors from a range of disciplines united by a common interest in water.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday 20th September 2017 at the main auditorium of The University of Eastern Finland (Yliopistonranta 1 E, Kuopio). Free of charge as the rest of the festival programme! READ MORE
Minty Donald & Nick Millar (UK): Watermeets Kuopio
Leading up to ANTI Festival, the Scotish artists Minty Donald and Nick Millar will spend time with some of the people who work with Kuopio’s water treatment company, Kuopion Vesi. They will shadow them in their work and find out about their professional and personal relationships with water.
The audience will be invited to join Minty, Nick and some of Kuopion Vesi workers on a watery journey through the city, culminating in a site-specific performance-installation at a local water treatment plant. READ MORE
Volna (RU): Aalto
A collective of Russian architects will create a visual intervention for Kuopio’s City Theatre. Manipulating electroluminescent technology a wave is visible from streets surrounding the theatre.
The work is dedicated to the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, who worked with undulating shapes and whose name in Finnish – as the artists learnt working in Kuopio – stands for “wave” just like the Russian name of the group, Volna. READ MORE
For more information on the festival works and partnerships, please
visit our Programme page!