ANTI Festival 25.-30.9.2018 – Gift for the whole family
Media release 13.9.2018
The 17th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018. The festival projects are engaged with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. The artistic programme offers experiences to audiences of all ages!
Below our tips for the whole family!
All events are free to attend.
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey (AU): Pivot
Tuesday 25.9. – Friday 28.9. 11.00 – 17.00
Saturday 29.9. 10.00 – 16.00
Part next to the City Hall | Tulliportinkatu 31
Rejoice in the safe absurdity of a see saw ride, while our democracy teeters towards ever more dangerous farce. As you enjoy the rare opportunity to ride, speak, and listen, remember that Pivot is programmed to consider all words it hears, and is reflecting your own views, and the views of many others.
Pivot’s field of boldly coloured seesaws invites you to stop and play – and then asks you to think deeply about the commitments you make every day to create this complex world of ours!
Photo above: Gregory Lorenzutti
Action Hero (UK): Oh Europa
Tuesday 25.9. 13.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 26.9. – Thursday 27.9. 12.00 – 16.00
Friday 28.9. 18.00 – 22.00
Saturday 29.9. 11.00 – 13.00
Kuopio Market Square
Welcome to share your favourite love songs!
Over 6 months in 2018, Action Hero are travelling over 30,000km across Europe in a motorhome, recording songs of love, hope, heartbreak, loss and desire, sung by the people they meet. They invite ANTI Festival and the people of Kuopio to contribute to the process by recording love songs in their mobile studio and by encountering material gathered on their journey through Europe’s contested identity.
Meetlab (HU): TRON
Tuesday 25.9. – Wednesday 26.9. 18.00 – 21.00
Ylä-Pyörö school yard | Blominkatu 2
Thursday 27.9. 18.00 – 22.00
Friday 28.9. 18.00 – 24.00
Saturday 29.9. 18.00 – 22.00
Koljonniemenkatu 3
We invite people of Kuopio to play TRON, the legendary and simple one-on-one video game, laser projected on a wall of a building! TRON takes us back in time to the creation of our first video games. Let’s play, cheer and challenge the winners all night long!
John Court (FI/UK) & Mark Harvey (NZ): Drop Kick
Friday 28.9. 10.00 – 16.00
Snellmanin puisto Park
Saturday 29.9. 10.00 – 16.00
Kuopio Market Square & streets around
Drop Kickwill involve playful endurance/durational actions performed by John Court and Mark Harvey together with apparatuses that they develop in workshops with local youth through a process of guided collaboration.
Notions of play will be explored through a sense of free-association in the development of these large objects with participants and the way in which Court and Harvey choose to respond to them through their actions.
Theatre of Research (DE): Playing Up
Friday 28.9. – Saturday 29.9. 11.00 – 17.00
ANTI pop-up play space
Make clothes out of food, lie on top of cars, dance with animals, have a ketchup fight, follow a random passerby, invent your own form of sport, search for miracles. Drawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together.
Richard DeDomenici (UK): The Swivelympics
Saturday 29.9. 10.00 – 15.00
ANTI pop-up play space
Welcome to The Swivelympics – your chance to achieve international sporting greatness without standing up! The aim of Swivelympics – other than world peace and human understanding – is to complete the most number of spins in one self-propelled push in a standard office swivel chair.
point and place (UK etc): Hexagons
Tuesday 25.9. – Saturday 29.9.
ANTI pop-up play space
Hexagons is a game created by the artist collective point and place, exploring landscape, the body and acts of communication. Drawing on an archive of images created over 10 years of collaborative practice, the game is made of 33 paired images, printed on beautifully crafted hexagonal pieces.
An invitation to play and explore, Hexagonscan be played as the traditional memory game ‘Pelmanism’ or used as a starting point for creative interaction and improvised play.
Games for Health Finland & IGDA Kuopio: Retro Game Corner
Tuesday 25.9. – Saturday 29.9.
ANTI pop-up play space
ANTI Festival’s local partners will set up a spot to play retro video games in good company. Retro Game Corner is a platform for intergenerational sharing and a review of the history of video games!
Detailed festival programme on our website!
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For more information, contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005.
