ANTI Festival starts in a month – Celebrated live artists come together in Kuopio, Finland

Media release 28.8.2018

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2018 is getting closer and we enjoy the festival opening after a month exactly, on 25th September. Internationally celebrated, award-winning artists from around the world will present projects engaged with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming.

A playful engagement with the spaces of Kuopio, ANTI Festival’s host city, has been at the heart of our approach to bringing vital, exciting and surprising contemporary art to this inquisitive community. For 2018 we’re focusing our attentions properly on play and gaming.

On 29th September, we will award ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, one of world’s most exciting cultural prizes. We’ll also host the third Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio between 21st and 27th September.

Updated festival programme and schedule on our website!

Join our 2018 Facebook event to follow the festival news!

The festival is free to attend.

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

Opening day 25th Sep 2018

11.00 – 18.00
ANTI pop-up play space & info
Shopping Centre Aapeli, Kauppakatu Street 28

11.00 – 17.00
Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey (AU): Pivot
Park next to the Kuopio City Hall, Tulliportinkatu Street 31

12.00
Festival Opening
ANTI pop-up play space, Shopping Centre Aapeli, Kauppakatu Street 28

12.00 – 13.00
Sanna From & Riina Hannuksela (FI): I Love Me Lunch Play
Mobile application, participant’s current location

13.00 – 17.00
Action Hero (UK): Oh Europa
Kuopio Market Square

18.00 – 21.00
Meetlab (HU): TRON
Ylä-Pyörö school yard, Blominkatu Street 2