Newsletter 10/2017 – From ANTI with Love
The 3rd video postcard from videographer Kim Saarinen and ANTI Festival 2017 takes us back to touching experiences, multicultural encounters and moments of peace and quiet and purification;
outstanding artworks by the water!
The works on the video:
French & Mottershead (UK): Waterborne (in the image)
River Lin (TW): Cleansing Service
Ernest Truely (US) & New Start Finland: Kuopio Encounters
Terike Haapoja (FI): Gravitation
Mark Pozlep (SI): Island
Kaaos Company (FI): Pond
Artefact film premiering in Australia
The Artefact film was premiered at ANTI Festival 2017, and the Australian premiere will be experienced on 3rd November 2017 in ACMI’s ART + FILM programme in Melbourne!
In 2016, the Australian artists Willoh S. Weiland and JR Brennan created the unforgettable production Artefact, performed with hundreds of local participants in Kuopio. The work has now been edited into a remarkable film!
The Artefact film has been created by collaborators Weiland and Brennan with Finnish editor and ANTI Festival’s well respected videographer Kim Saarinen!
Artefact is a co-production by ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and Aphids Events. The project is supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and the HIAP residency program, Helsinki. The Artefact film screening is supported by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria.
Kuopio Lab #2: Back to the Pinari Youth Center
Communications manager Virna Setta visited the Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio’s Petonen and reports on the wild and warm moments of the Lab at the Future DiverCities website.
The artists working in the Kuopio Lab were Joseph O’Farrell (AU), Nastja Säde Rönkkö (FI), Davor Sanvincenti (HR) and Anne Roquigny (FR) and the local associate artists Anniina Aunola, Emma Fält,
Eerika Jalasaho and Ilkka Kivelä.
Open Calls for Artists
While waiting for the open call for ANTI Festival 2018, check out the open calls
of our partners around the world!
SITUATE Arts Lab
ANTI Festival is a partner festival of the Australian SITUATE Art in Festivals. SITUATE supports outstanding early career artists and creative practitioners to develop new experimental artworks for the festival environment.
Apply to SITUATE Artst Lab ONLINE by 27th November 2017! For Australian artists only.
The purpose of the SITUATE Arts Lab is to support artists in developing strong and well-resolved project ideas and concepts that respond to a variety of festival sites, audiences, conditions and economies.
International Call for Projects Chroniques 2018
Seconde Nature, our partner in Future DiverCities project, has opened a call for projects to be presented as a part of the Chroniques 2018 programme.
Artists and projects using digital tools and technologies in different forms, and projects responding to the theme of “Levitation” are encouraged to apply by 17th December 2017.
Application guidelines HERE! For artists from around the world.
All photos by Pekka Mäkinen.
Newsletter 9/2017
Thank you for ANTI Festival 2017!
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival took place between 19th and 24th September 2017 in Kuopio, Finland. The festival brought together artists and audience from across Finland and almost 10 different countries.
13 000 participants attended festival events in Kuopio and over 30 000 people followed us on social media.
Thank you to the festival artists, staff members, volunteers, partners, audience members –
everyone who was involved!
In the image: River Lin (TW): Cleansing Service
Return to the festival through images!
Videographer Kim Saarinen and photographer Pekka Mäkinen documented the festival events
during the festival week.
See the best video clips on our Vimeo page!
More amazing images below and on our Facebook page!
Many festival guests posted images and videos of the festival with #antifestival2017 !
A rare double CD curated in 2008 by artists Alan Dunn and Jeff Young distributed around the festival events! Piia Jokivarsi and Emmi Tuppurainen photographer each recipient!
Tania El Khoury is the 2017 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art!
Future DiverCities Lab #2 with the artists Joseph O’Farrel (AU), Nastja Säde Rönkkö (FI), Davor Sanvincenti (HR), Anne Roquigny (FR), Anniina Aunola (FI), Emma Fält (FI), Eerika Jalasaho (FI) and Ilkka Kivelä (FI).
Photos above, unless otherwise mentioned, by Pekka Mäkinen.
Thank you for ANTI Festival 2017!
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival took place between 19th and 24th September 2017 in Kuopio, Finland. The festival brought together artists and audience from across Finland and almost 10 different countries.
13 000 participants attended festival events in Kuopio and over 30 000 people followed us on social media.
Thank you to the festival artists, staff members, volunteers, partners, audience members – everyone who was involved!
ANTI in images
Videographer Kim Saarinen and photographer Pekka Mäkinen documented the festival events during the festival week.
See the best video clips on our Vimeo Page! More amazing images can be found on our Facebook Page. See, for example, Best of ANTI 2017!
More information
Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005
Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury announced winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art
Media release 23.9.2017
Tania El Khoury is the winner of the 2017 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, announced at the ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio, Finland (Saturday 23rd September 2017).
The Prize – now in its 4th year – is the world’s only International Prize for Live Art, and at €30,000 it is also one of the richest in the arts, underlining the importance of live art.
The Lebanese artist beat three other outstanding contemporary artists from across the globe who were all competing for the top prize – Sethembile Msezane (South Africa), The vacuum cleaner (UK) and Alexandra Pirici (Romania).
Tania was picked as the winner by a jury consisting of international art professionals. In the Chair is Fiona Winning, formerly the Head of Programming at the Sydney Opera House, alongside Lois Keidan (co-founder of the Live Art Development Agency, previously Director of Live Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) and Paris-based Taiwanese artist and curator, River Lin.
Jury Chair Fiona Winning explains why they picked Tania as the winner:
“The sensitivity of this artist’s work in orchestrating audience experience is extraordinary. It stays with us, is sometimes literally written onto us. She has foregrounded some of the burning questions of our time by creating resonant experiences that generate conversation and exchange. Tania’s work is urgently needed and we thank her for it.”
Tania El Khoury receives a cash prize of €15,000 and the same amount in the form of a production grant for bringing a new work to the ANTI Festival in 2018.
Tania El Khoury (LB)
Tania El Khoury is a feminist Arab live artist based in London and Beirut, whose work aims at engaging with the politics of space, the ethics of the encounter with audience, and the writing of history from below.
Her work has been shown across five continents, in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. Previous performances include Jarideh, an intervention in a public space which asked audience members to identify the most suspicious person present, according to criteria listed in a Metropolitan Police awareness report and Maybe If You Choreograph Me, You Will Feel Better, which won both the Total Theatre award for innovation and the Arches Brick award when it was presented in Edinburgh in 2011.
Tania is currently working on a practice-based PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, focusing on interactive Live Art after the Arab uprisings
www.taniaelkhoury.com
Commenting on her win, Tania said in Kuopio:
“I am very excited and deeply honoured to receive this award. It means a lot to be recognised by such an inspiring and accomplished group of jury members. I’m very much looking forward to making work with ANTI Festival; I know I will feel at home in such a space that encourages the intertwining of art and politics.”
More information
on our website and Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival, +358 50 305 2005.
Press photos: antifestival.com/media
Images
River Lin & Tania El Khoury – Photo: Pekka Mäkinen
Tania El Khoury – Photo: Ibrahim Fakhri
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art funded by:
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art – Jury Statement 2017
As Jury members of this extraordinary and unique prize, we begin with an expression of our admiration and respect for all the 2017 shortlisted artists.
Tania El Khoury, Sethembile Msezane, Alexandra Pirici and The vacuum cleaner, your diverse range of experiences and practices – created across and between social, environmental and political contexts is exemplary. Your sophisticated work – whether created for public space, in collaboration with institutions, or as activism at the frontline of the refugee crisis or mental health services demonstrates that Live Art is a powerful platform for artists to talk about the urgent issues of our time. To ask audiences to re-think, to re-imagine, and to make demands.
Each of these four artists, whether creating work in South Africa, Europe, the Middle East or the UK, rigorously analyses and engages with their respective political landscapes to dig, to strip back, to provoke, to create a space for dissent and anger. Each creates work that is participatory, that fundamentally invites conversation – using different pathways to exchange, reflect and contest.
Collectively, their practice is testament to what Live Art can do – who it can speak for and with. People we don’t or can’t see in the public domain, voices we don’t hear or are misinterpreted or obscured in our culture.
While each of these artists creates aesthetically and formally very different works, the jury recognized a recurring and urgent project to address and contest the formal practice and memorialization, and of power. To explore the corporeality of memory. To ask who is remembered, why and how? And in turn, who is not?
Each of the artists uses intimacy and interaction as strategies to ask these and other burning issues of our time. While some draw on their own lived experiences as core material for their work, they all call on ethical research and collaborative models to create resonant truthful work.
They trust their audiences and are careful to create the conditions in which their audiences trust the work. All display extraordinary courage in the public realm. As the activist John Jordan would say their work is ‘not about politics it is politics’.
As a Jury, we’ve been delighted to be introduced to or get to understand more deeply each of these artists’ practice. It’s been a privilege and an honour to read the artists’ own reflections on their work offering precious insights into their process.
Sethembile Msezane’s work has a singular legible focus – to reinscribe black South African women into public space and history as a counterpoint to ‘official’ patriarchal, British colonial and Afrikaner nationalist representations in public sculpture and monuments. Her work, created through a series of live actions and tableaux in public space, extends to a series of photographic images – artifacts that in turn create a new visual language of self-representation and a repositioning of the place of black women in a nation’s history and political economy. It is courageous work and to be nominated at this stage of her career is testament to the strength of practice.
Alexandra Pirici’s work critiques the environment and impulses around the display of formal, traditional art and its physical contexts. Using the body as a vehicle to investigate time – past and present, she creates choreographic responses and interventions in galleries and public spaces. Her sensitivity to the protocols of public spaces as she intervenes in them engenders a delicate dialogue. Her live work is an interpretation or a re-inhabiting, of historical sensibility, and institutionalism and gives formal propriety to our sense of culture, expression and creativity. Her work critiques power and monumentalism directly – it is stripped back, unadorned and quiet.
The vacuum cleaner’s activist practice asks us to re-consider the efficacy of art itself – what can or should it do? What, as artists, are our social responsibilities now? There is an ethical question at the heart of this work – an ethics of engagement and responsibility. He uses his own experiences of precarious mental health as the point of departure for his work to engage with wider realities. Recently he his direct activist art operating outside the system shifted to collaborate with health service providers, their users and institutions to redesign ‘ideal’ spatial and aesthetic places for care. This engagement with the people at the centre of a wicked problem – as a means to shift old thinking and practice has had significant impact on individuals and institutional practice. In a world where mental health issues were until recently taboo, he has been on the right side of history – creating work and interventions that are simultaneously critical, playful and profound.
Tania El Khoury orchestrates live experiences in an exquisite relationship between content and form. She has a sophisticated and delicate relationship with the individuals and communities touched or terrorized by violent, politically driven unrest. She works with people’s stories to share/restore the voice of individuals and communities. Her relationships with the subjects of her work, her trusted collaborators – the bereaved or the displaced, are deeply ethical and inclusive. Tania in turn invests enormous generosity and trust in her audiences. Whether hearing from the dead as we nestle into dirt or having our inner arm marked with journeys unimaginable to most, this artist orchestrates experiences that are intimate, visceral and sensory. Where liveness is embodied through the audience experience.
So, Alexandra, James, Sethembile and Tania, the job of selecting a single winner has been incredibly hard. Your work is astonishing. It is brave and intelligent, connected to the contemporary world, finding new forms, new collaborators and audiences, new sites and contexts for intervention.
After a lot of discussion, a single winner has emerged. For making artworks on the right side of history, that seek to mark us with the experiences of others, lightly but nevertheless indelibly, for creating intimate, emotional and ethical live experiences the 2017 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art goes to Tania El Khoury.
The sensitivity of Tania’s work in orchestrating audience experience is extraordinary. It stays with us, is sometimes literally written onto us. She has foregrounded some of the burning questions of our time by creating resonant experiences that generate conversation and exchange. She creates acts of remembering, of marking, of ourselves in the position of others.
Tania says in her artist statement that while activism knows its endpoint, a live artist, does not –suggesting her process is open-ended and exploratory. We congratulate her on her detailed exploration and thank her for the works created so far. This award will facilitate further work and we look forward to seeing it.
In closing, the Jury members – Lois Keidan, River Lin and Fiona Winning would like to congratulate all the shortlisted artists Sethembile Msezane, Alexandra Pirici, The vacuum cleaner and Tania El Khoury. Your practice is urgently needed, deeply appreciated by this jury, and rightfully celebrated around the world.
We also sincerely thank both the ANTI Festival and the Saastamoinen Foundation for their vision and ongoing support in creating this unique international Prize for Live Art. In this, its fourth year, we can see the increased visibility of both award winners and shortlisted artists. As a sector, we sincerely thank you for that. Art making is a precarious existence, so recognition backed up with real support is immensely appreciated by live artists and their audiences. Thank you.
Fiona Winning (chair)
Lois Keidan
River Lin
Artist Talk with the Live Art Prize Nominees and last year’s winner on Sat 23rd at 12 pm.
Media release 22.9.2017
Welcome to meet with the winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2016, Terike Haapoja (Finland) and the 2017 short listed, presented by two nominees, Sethembile Msezane (South Africa) and Tania El Khoury (Libanon).
Artist Talk on Saturday 23rd Sep at 12.00 pm. in the restaurant Intro (Kauppakatu 20)!
The other nominees are the vacuum cleaner (Great Britain) and
Alexandra Pirici (Romania).
More information
on our website and Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival, +358 50 305 2005.
Press images: antifestival.com/media
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art
Pertti Martikainen: Global Flood – How a scientist sees the work
Pertti J. Martikainen Prof. emeritus Biogeochemistry
Science and Art
Science has created the basis for the development of the modern society with the innovations used e.g. in technology and medicine. Unfortunately, this development has created also global scale environmental problems, increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration as an example.
Therefore, science and technology have a great responsibility in solving environmental problems. But science and technology can’t do this alone because everything happens in a broader cultural and societal context: how the public perceives the situation and how we make everyday and political decisions. Values and emotions play an important part in the decision-making processes and there art can have a role. Propably every one has an experience of the personal/collective emotional state when, for example, an excellent movie ends and the audience starts to leave the cinema. As if, for a moment, one would have realized something deeper and more meaningful. I have attached below a figure of our recent publication. The figure presents a conceptual model how scientific knowledge is transmitted to societal and political decision- making. It has been completed here by indicating a potential place of art in the decision-making – process.
The Earth, water and life
When searching for the life in the universe, we are first looking water. All organisms require water. The Earth is a living planet resulting from the development of water depended physical-chemical environment supporting life. After development of life, the organisms of the Earth have changed the environmental conditions in the Earth by their living processes.
The atmosphere of the Earth would be very different without the ability of organisms to produce and consume gases. Oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by plants, algae and microbes able to photosynthesis.
The content of the important greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide is largely regulated by the function of organisms of terrestrial ecosystems, oceans and freshwater ecosystem. The reason for the global warming is not only the use of fossil fuels but also land use (agriculture, cutting of tropical forests) affecting vegetation and function of soil microbes.
In the regulation of microbial processes water has even greater importance than temperature. An good example is the huge storage of organic matter (peat) accumulated in the tropical and northern peatlands of the world. The reason to the accumulation of peat is the lack of oxygen in water-saturated soil. Microbes are not able to decompose effectively plant derived organic matter in soil lack with low oxygen content. Drying of the peatland .e.g. for agriculture enhances oxygen availability in peat which favors activity of peat decomposing microbes. Peatland looses its ability to fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the stored carbon reservoir is released as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. A further negative atmospheric impact is that microbes in drained peat start to produce nitrous oxide, a strong greenhouse gas.
Climate change affects strongly the hydrological cycle of the Earth. Severe drought will be more common in many areas making wood production more difficult for the growing population. Drought causes also great wildfires. On the other hand there are more heavy rains and floods. The sea level is rising more than 3 mm in a year resulting from the thermal expansion of sea water and melting of glaciers. Many of the dense settlements of the world are located in the low coastal areas or islands. There the sea level rise will require expensive technical constructions to prevent damages. This is economically and technically not possible in all risk areas which leads to massive migration.
Global Flood
Global Flood installation is an abstraction about the function of the Earth before and after human induced climate change. There water describes following things: energy which the Earth gets from the Sun, greenhouse gases, thermal equilibrium of the Earth and its disturbance resulting from the greenhouse gases, fossil fuels and water/ocean. When the atmosphere/climate was in the “equilibrium” before the industrial revolution, the Earth was able to emit back to the space the solar energy so that the mean temperature of the Earth was constant. Now greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap more and more solar energy leading to disturbance in the heat balance of the Earth, temperature increases causing rise in sea level.
Pine logs are used in the basic construction of the installation. Wood construction is a way to fix atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide taken by trees from the atmosphere can be stored in wooden constructions for hundreds of years in contrast to the short-lived paper products.
When constructing the Global Flood installation and considering the “waste materials” produced during the work, I got some side ideas associated to water (Local Flood video) and time (“spiral hourglass”). Time is essential in the climate change – the mitigation options have to be realized soon. There is a need for creative and openminded solutions.
Download the article “Global Flood – Background from a scientist” (pdf)!
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!
Join our Facebook event!
Only a week to ANTI Festival – Book you seat to these performances!
Media release 12.9.2017
ANTI Festival is free to attend, yet this year we have several performances that require bookings. Read more about these peformances and book you seat in time!
Bookings to booking@antifestival.com or +358 50 303 7565 !
Inform your name, email address, phone number and the performance you want to participate in.
Performances with limited seats:
Willoh S. Weiland, JR Brennan (AU) & crew: Artefact (film) & Festival Opening
Tuesday 19.9.
17:00 Maria stage of Kuopio City Theatre | Niiralankatu Street 2
Welcome to enjoy the Artefact screening as well as the festival opening!
Terike Haapoja (FI): Studies on Freedom
Wednesday 20.9. – Friday 22.9.
13:00 & 17:00
The Law Office Karvinen, Sarkkinen & Sallinen | Kuninkaankatu Street 22 A, 5th floor
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?
Participatory encounter for one participant at a time. Duration c. 2 hours.
Politics and Poetics of Water Seminar
Wednesday 20.9.
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. READ MORE
Coffee service for the registered seminar participants. Please register by filling this form!
Minty Donald & Nick Millar (UK): Watermeets Kuopio
Thursday 21.9. & Friday 22.9.
13:00 Start at the Market Square
15:00 Start at the Market Square
17:00 Start at the Market Square
Audience members attending Watermeets Kuopio will be invited to bring along a sample of water from their everyday routines in a specially supplied container.
Limited number of seats – the bus will accommodate only 15 people.
River Lin (TW): Cleansing Water
Thursday 21.9. & Friday 22.9.
15:00 – 20:00
Saturday 23.9.
12:00 – 17:00
Hotel Puijonsarvi | Minna Canthin katu 16
Cleansing Service is a performance-based installation for one-on-one encounter.
Book your 10 min performance!
Kaaos Company (FI): Pond
Sunday 24.9.
14:00 Hotel Scandic pool | Satamakatu Street 1
Pond is a small retreat, where we gather around water and give ourselves into it.
Bring your own bathing suit, towel and other things you need for a good bath. You can go to sauna and bath during the performance.
Join our Facebook event!
INVITATION: ANTI Prize Party, Sat 23rd Sep – ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art
Media release 11.9.2017
The ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded again in Kuopio, Finland. The world’s only International Prize for Live Art is 30,000 euros, with the winning artist receiving a cash prize of 15,000 euros and the same amount in the form of a production grant for bringing a new work to the ANTI Festival in the following year.
The winner 2017 will be announced at ANTI Prize Party
on Saturday 23rd September at 8 pm.
in restaurant Intro (Kauppakatu Street 20), welcome!
The nominees Sethembile Msezane (South Africa) and Tania El Khoury (Lebanon) will arrive to the Prize Party. The other nominees are the vacuum cleaner (United Kingdom) ja Alexandra Pirici (Romania). Besides the nominees, ANTI Festival presents the work of the previous winners of the Prize; the winner 2017, Terike Haapoja’s (in the image) series of works, Studies on Freedom and exhibition, Gravitation will be experienced in the festival programme.
The winner 2015, Willoh S. Weiland presents Artefact, a movie created during the Artefact spectacle 2016, in the festival opening.
ANTI Prize Party & ANTI-Humu club
Saturday 23rd September at 8 pm.
Restaurant Intro, Kauppakatu Street 20
The prize ceremony will be followed by a magical party, arranged in collaboration with a local music collective Humu-klubi! READ MORE
Prize Nominees in Kuopio
The prize nominees, Sethembile Msezane and Tania El Khoury will be arriving to the Prize Party.
Besides the nominees, a representative of the Jury, artist and curator Rivel Lin will take part in the ceremont,
This year’s Jury consists of Fiona Winning (chair), Lois Keidan and River Lin. READ MORE
Terike Haapoja (FI): Studies on Freedom I-II & Gravitation
Tuesday 19th – Saturday 23rd Sep
The 2016 winner Terike Haapoja returns to Kuopio and ANTI Festival with a series of new works; Studies on Freedom I-II and Gravitation (image).
After more than a decade of working on our relationship with nature and the nonhuman world, Haapoja is turning her gaze to the figure of the human. How are we, as people, bound to the binaries of freedom and subjectivity? Studies on Freedom is a commissioned series of works for ANTI Festival. The two studies discuss
freedom and it’s limits.
marks a turn to a more intimate, direct approach in Haapoja’s practice. The series of c. 80 photographs are born from a personal urgency that bypasses discourse. Created at fast pace during a time of severe physical and emotional distress, the images reveal moments of desire, mortality, abandonment and agency, objectification and the desire to become an object. The exhibition presents selected prints from the series alongside a preview of the upcoming publication Gravitation (2017). READ MORE
Willoh S. Weiland & JR Brennan (AU) & crew: Artefact (elokuva)
Tuesday 19th Sep at 5 pm.
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! READ MORE
More information
on our website and Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival, +358 50 305 2005.
Press photos: antifestival.com/media
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art funded by:
