ANTI Festival starts tomorrow in Kuopio, Finland!
This year’s festival theme is water. The city of Kuopio hosts the festival; site-specific artworks by artists from around the world inhabit the spaces of public life – shopping centres, hotels, city squares and ponds – and directly engage audiences in the making and showing of their work.
The festival is free to attend!
Programme for the beginning of the week:
TERIKE HAAPOJA (FI): GRAVITATION
Welcome to the opening on Tue 19th at 12 am!
Tuesday 19.9. – Thursday 21.9.
12:00 – 18:00
Friday 22.9. – Saturday 23.9.
11:00 – 16:00
G12 Gallery | Maaherrankatu 9
Photographies and book preview
Gravitation marks a turn to a more intimate, direct approach in Haapoja’s practice.
ARTEFACT FILM & FESTIVAL OPENING
Tuesday 19.9.
17:00 Maria stage of Kuopio City Theatre | Niiralankatu Street 2
In 2016, Willoh S.Weiland and JR Brennan created the unforgettable production Artefact, performed with hundreds of local participants in Kuopio. The work has now being edited into a remarkable film!
TERIKE HAAPOJA (FI): STUDIES ON FREEDOM I
Tuesday 19.9. – Friday 22.9.
15:00 – 19:00
Provincial Courthouse (the yard) | Minna Canthin katu Street 64 A
Audio in Finnish only!
In collaboration with a local high school, we asked the students to write a letter to the inmates, where they can express their understanding of freedom and responsibility, norms and punishments. The inmates of the Kuopio prison replied…
GWENDOLINE ROBIN (BE): CRATÈRE N°6899
Tuesday 19.9.
20:00 Shopping centre Sektori | Puijonkatu Street 23
Live art performance. One-time-only!
Cratère n°6899 is a performative approach to the element of Water.
MILLA & PERTTI MARTIKAINEN (FI): GLOBAL FLOOD
Wednesday 20.9.
10:00 – 13:00
Thursday 21.9. & Friday 22.9.
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday 23.9.
10.00 – 16.00
Aapeli Shopping Centre | Kauppakatu 28
Performance-installation
A collaboration between a father and a daughter, one an artist, one a scientist, an emeritus professor.
A discursive, sculptural, installation essaying the challenge of climate change.
POLITICS AND POETICS OF WATER SEMINAR
Wednesday 20.9.2017
12:00 – 15:00 University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio |
Yliopistonranta Street 1 E
This year, ANTI Festival will organise a seminar in collaboration with Our Water-Conscious Land project, The University of Eastern Finland and the brand design company Ad Kiivi.
No entrance fee.
MARK POZLEP (SI): ISLAND
Wednesday 20.9. starting at 12:00
Sunday 24.9. till 12:00
Valkeisenlampi pond
Island is a performance where the artist lives 5 days on a self-build raft, ‘the island’.
Every day at 14:00 & 18:00 Contact the artist on the Island by walkie-talkies & follow the live streaming on our website!
TERIKE HAAPOJA (FI): STUDIES ON FREEDOM II
Wednesday 20.9. – Friday 22.9.
13:00 – 15:00 & 17:00 – 19:00
The Law Office Karvinen, Sarkkinen & Sallinen | Kuninkaankatu Street 22 A, 5th floor
Participatory encounter for one participant at a time.
There can be freedom in giving away one’s freedom. What freedoms would I be willing
to give up to gain that freedom in exchange?
Fully booked, ask for cancellations!
JOSEPH O’FARRELL / JOF (AU): 10 MINUTE DANCE PARTIES!
Wednesday 20.9. – Thursday 21.9.
14:00 – 18:00
Freight container at Freedom Square | Pyörönkaari Street 24, Petonen district.
Participatory dance performance at Petonen!
JOF and a collection of young people of Kuopio welcomes you to 10-Minute Dance Parties – a celebration of art and colour, costume and community, and the universal nature of dance!
You can also participate on Friday 22.9. and Saturday 23.9. at the Kuopio Market Square!
ANOUSKA SAMMS & SOFIA PANCUCCI-MCQUEEN (UK): THE BATHS
Wednesday 20.9. – Friday 22.9.
17:00 – 22:00
Koivula Villa & Sauna | Savisaari Street 61
Short film
Made by two female filmmakers, The Baths explores masculinity in this unique setting and invites us to observe often unseen cultural traditions and social interactions.
Enjoy sauna by a lake after the film! Please bring your own towel, swimming suit and refreshments.
FUTURE DIVERCITIES LAB: PUBLIC SHARING
Wednesday 20.9.
18:00 Pinari youth centre | Pyörönkaari Street 19
Participatory performances and discussions at Petonen!
This year, ANTI Festival takes the Future DiverCities Lab artists to suburb, to the Petonen district in Kuopio. The artists work in relationship with each other, the aims of the Future DiverCities project as well as with artists and communities local to Kuopio.
Future DiverCities Lab #2 artists will share their work in a public event!
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