ANTI will take a head start to the festival – experiences available starting from 6th Sep!
Media release 1.9.2021
The 20th ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 14th and 19th September 2021 but we will open two festival works next week already!
On Monday 6th Sep, we start with The Collectors by Veera Launonen and Ilkka Kivelä, a series of video pieces scattered across Kuopio’s urban spaces, on advertising screens.
Starting from Wednesday 8th Sep, we invite you to participate in
A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call by 600 HIGHWAYMEN from your own location, via phone.
There are several performance times available to A Phone Callbut only one seat per performance. Please book your seat (0€) in advance, and act now at antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/600-highwaymen-us-a-thousand-ways-part-one-a-phone-call!
More about the two artworks below!
600 HIGHWAYMEN (US): A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call
8.-18.9.2021 (multiple performance times)
@ YOUR LOCATION / REMOTE (Phone)
A performance about communion, distance, and reconnection from one of the world’s most acclaimed theater companies!
A Thousand Ways is an enthralling, imaginative, and profound social experience that delivers us from isolation to congregation. A treasure hunt. An essential reckoning.
Pick up the phone. Someone is on the line. You don’t know their name, and you still won’t when the hour is over, but through this exchange – as you follow a thread of automated prompts – a portrait of your partner will emerge through fleeting moments of exposure.
Duration: 45-60 min.
Book your seat (0€) to the performance: antifestival.com/tapahtuma/600-highwaymen-us-a-thousand-ways-part-one-a-phone-call
Veera Launonen & Ilkka Kivelä (FI): The Collectors
6.-19.9.2021
The Collectors is a series of video pieces scattered across Kuopio’s urban spaces dealing with memories, emotions and dreams for the future related to urban spaces and outdoor areas.
You can come across the piece on advertising screens around Kuopio’s public spaces; around the market square, shopping centres as well as local universities:
@ SOKOS KUOPIO SHOP WINDOW
address: Haapaniemenkatu 24-26
@ LARGE SCREEN AT THE KUOPIO MARKET SQUARE
address: Kauppakatu 45
@ SHOPPING CENTRE APAJA
address: Kauppakatu 45 (under the Market Square)
@ UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, SNELLMANIA BUILDING
address: Yliopistonranta 1
@ SAVONIA UNIVERSITY
address: Microkatu 1
@ MATKUS SHOPPING CENTRE
address: Matkuksentie 60
@KANTTI KUOPIO MUSEUM
address: Museokatu 1
@ONLINE