Politics and Poetics of Water -seminaari ke 20.9. klo 12-15

Tiedote 4.9.2017 ANTI-festivaali järjestää vuoden 2017 tieteellis-taiteellisen seminaarin, Politics and Poetics of Water yhteistyössä Our Water-Conscious Land -projektin, Itä-Suomen yliopiston ja mainostoimisto Ad Kiivin kanssa. Seminaarissa kuullaan puheenvuoroja monialaisilta asiantuntijoilta, tutkijoilta ja taiteilijoilta, joita yhdistää kiinnostus veteen. Seminaari järjestetään keskiviikkona 20.9.2017 klo 12.00 – 15.00 Itä-Suomen yliopiston Snellmanian pääluentosalissa (Yliopistonranta 1 E, Kuopio). Seminaari on […]


NEWSLETTER 8/2017

ANTI Festival taking over the public spaces of Kuopio again ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 19th and 24th September and takes over the public spaces of Kuopio again. The festival has built a programme of projects around water as, this year, it has partnered with projects and organisations working around it, […]


Future DiverCities Lab goes suburb

Media release 1.9.2017 ANTI Festival will be hosting the second Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio between 14th and 20th September, prior and during the ANTI Festival 2017. Four international artists will be exploring how digital technologies can augment socially engaged arts practices. The Future DiverSocieties Lab will pair performance makers, who are socially engaged with participatory frameworks, […]


Only a month to ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival

Media release 23.8.2017 ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival starts in only one month on 19th September and takes over the public spaces of Kuopio again. The festival has built a programme of projects around water as, this year, it has partnered with projects and organisations working around it, such as Our Water-Conscious Land project and Kuopio Water Company. Artists, from around the world, work […]


Terike Haapoja turns her gaze to human at ANTI Festival

Media release 10.8.2017 The 2016 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, Terike Haapoja returns to Kuopio and ANTI Festival 19-24 September 2017 with a series of new works; Studies on Freedom I-II and Gravitation (images). After more than a decade of working on our relationship with nature and the nonhuman world, Haapoja […]


Terike Haapoja: Everything comes back to the body

Our relationship with technology, nature and the nonhuman world has been the focus of my practice for more than a decade. The boundary that I have explored for so long has never been only about ‘interspecies connection’, but about connection in general. It has been driven by the question of how to connect with what […]


Jury and Shortlist announced for world’s only International Prize for Live Art

Media release 28.7.2017 The ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival returns to Kuopio, Finland this September and the highlight of this year’s event will be the announcement of the 2017 winner of International Prize for Live Art. The Prize – now in its 4th year – is the world’s only International Prize for Live Art, and […]


Newsletter 6/2017

Enjoy the summer! The ANTI Festival team will be having summer holidays in July. Between 1st and 16th July, we are all on holiday. We will stay silent for a while but will be back and loud soon again! Dive into our watery world ANTI Festival has built a programme of projects around water, and […]


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 […]


ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2017 – Politics and Poetics of Water

Media release 5.6.2017 ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 19th and 24th September 2017 in Kuopio, Finland. The festival has built a programme of projects around water as, this year, it has partnered with Our Water-Conscious Land, A project that proposes Finland, in its centenary year, should work as a global advocate for clean […]