ANTI Prize Weekend will take place around the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art between 27th and 29th October 2016 in Kuopio, Finland. The event celebrates today’s most explosive live artists and international collaboration projects.

Programme of the Weekend

ANTI Festival will also host an experimental artist residency “Lab” as a part of the Future DiverCities project in Kuopio between 23rd and 30th October. The Lab Artists will share
the working period during the ANTI Prize Weekend.

See the completed programme on our website: www.antifestival.com!

Thursday 27.10.
17.00 – 18.30 PechaKucha Kuopio vol. 12: After Work
Bistro Wine & Deli (Minna Canthin katu Street 16)

The Future DiverCities Lab Artists and their creative facilitator The Map Consortium will share their practice and after work moods in images!

Friday 28.10.
Starting at 18.00 Willoh S. Weiland (AU): Artefact
The Puijo Church (Taivaanpankontie Street 3) & “Technopolis Park” (Savilahdentie Street 4, next to the skate park)

The 2015 Winner of the ANTI Prize for Live Art has created a new work for Kuopio. At this interdisciplinary event, we will farewell the technology that has formed us, with performance, sound, documentary and pathos!

Saturday 29.10.

17.30 – 18.30 Future DiverCities: Launching to Kuopio
Kuopio Academy of Design (Piispankatu Street 8)

Future DiverCities project will take part in the Curators’ Day event organized by the local artist association Ars Libera. We will discuss about the co-curation and Artist Labs of the project.

20.00 till late ANTI Prize Party
Restaurant Puikkari (Maaherrankatu Street 5)

The 2016 Winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be announced, and a Massive Party will be followed by the prize ceremony!

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

A new work, Artefact by Willoh S. Weiland, the winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2015, will premiere in Kuopio, Finland in only one week on Friday 28th October!!! The Australian artist and her collaborator, musical director JR Brennan have already returned to the city to work on the project with the community of Kuopio, its best loved choirs and a group of death metal singers including Antti Boman from Demilich and Markus Laakso from Chaosweaver.

Artefact is a memorial ceremony for obsolete technology.

It commemorates the mysterious phenomenon of brand disappearance from Blackberry, to Nokia. It is a tribute to the immortal consumer icons we have internationally adored and the intimate and fickle ways we worship them. At this interdisciplinary event, we will farewell the products that have formed us with performance, sound, documentary and pathos.

How to Get There?

Make sure that your location is Kuopio, Finland. Artefact will take place in Kuopio’s Puijo Church and from there we will move to a mysterious no-one’s land on the city’s outer edge to witness the burial of our own Artefact.

Friday 28th October – free of charge!

6 pm. The Puijo Church (Taivaanpankontie Street 3)
7.30 pm. “The Technopolis Park” (next to the skate park on Savilahdentie Street 4)

Please wear black at the Church, if possible.

We recommend using the public transport, cycling or walking to the Puijo Church. There are free parking lots next to the venue.

From the Puijo Church, we will walk together to the “Technopolis Park”. In case you come by car, the access to the Teknia parking area is via Savilahdentie Street 6. Please notice that the burial of our Artefact takes place outdoors. Wear warm clothes!

Artists

Conceived and Directed by Willoh S. Weiland (AU)
Performance created by Willoh S. Weiland and JR Brennan (AU)
Music Direction and Composition by JR Brennan

Full credits on our website!

Artefact is a new commissioned work for ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and a co-production with the Australian Aphids Events. The project is supported by the Finnish Saastamoinen Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts.

For more information, go to our website or contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005!

ANTI Prize Weekend will take place in Kuopio, Finland between 27th and 29th October 2016. ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art is the core of the event. During the weekend, we will celebrate both the new work by the last year’s winner and the winner 2016!

On Saturday 29th October, we will announce the 2016 winner of the ANTI Prize for Live Art. Four outstanding contemporary artists or collectives are competing for the world’s only Prize for Live Art; the nominees are Action Hero (UK), Terike Haapoja (FI), My Barbarian (US) and Public Movement (IL). The Prize is funded by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

Welcome to the Prize Ceremony and ANTI Prize Party to the restaurant Puikkari (Maaherrankatu Street 5) on Saturday 29th October at 8 pm!

The event is open to everyone and there is no entrance fee before 8 pm. Please see the programme of the evening on our website!

In the year 2015 the Prize was won by Willoh S. Weiland. The Australian artist and her working group have now returned to Kuopio to work on Artefact which will premier in Kuopio on Friday 28th October.

Willoh S. Weiland (AU): Artefact

Artefact is a ceremony for obsolete technology.

At this interdisciplinary event, we will farewell the products that have formed us with performance, sound, documentary and pathos. It will take place in Kuopio’s Puijo Church and from there we will move to a mysterious no-one’s land on the city’s outer edge to witness the burial of our own Artefact.

Friday 28th October

6 pm. The Puijo Church
(Taivaanpankontie Street 3)
7.30 pm. “The Technopolis Park”
(next to the skate park on Savilahdentie Street 4)

No entrance fee. For more information, go to our website!

Artists

Conceived and Directed by Willoh S. Weiland (AU)
Performance created by Willoh S. Weiland and JR Brennan (AU)
Music Direction and Composition by JR Brennan
Artefact by Susan Cohn (AU) and Willoh S. Weiland
Cinematography by Kim Saarinen (FI)
Photo by Bryony Jackson (AU)

Artefact is a new commissioned work for ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and a co-production with the Australian Aphids Events. The project is supported by the Finnish Saastamoinen Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts.

For more information, go to our website or contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005!

ANTI Festival will host an experimental artist residence “Lab” as a part of the Future DiverCities project between 23rd and 30th October 2016. Four artists from the field of urban, digital, sound and community art will gather together in Kuopio to work in collaboration.

The Kuopio Lab is the first of the 19 Artist Labs which will test and develop the practical approaches of Future DiverCities’ vision and mission during the project (2016-2020).

The Lab will provide an opportunity for artists to experiment, collaborate and engage with the citizens and urban context of Kuopio. The results and non-results of the working period will be shared in different forms during the ANTI Prize Weekend between 27th and 29th October 2016. ANTI Festival will communicate about the public performances and interventions by the Lab Artists on its website and social media during the event!

The Lab will be hosted by ANTI Festival in partnership with creative facilitators The Map Consortium (UK).

Lab Artists in Kuopio

Anniina Aunola (FI)
Finnish, Kuopio based dance artist and pioneer in community art.

Antye Greie-Ripatti (DE/FI)
Digital songwriter, sound composer, poetress, curator and educator from Germany, based in Hailuoto, Finland.

HC Gilje (NO)
Norwegian artist working in installation, experimental video, live performance and set design.

The Constitute / Jens Beyer (DE)
Creative collective working on visual language for public space using digital and physical expressions.

Open Discussion in Kuopio!

The Lab Artists will meet with local artists and creatives of Kuopio already on Monday 24th between 6 and 8 pm. in a casual discussion meeting!

Join the Artists & Creatives Meet in Kuopio event on Facebook!

Future DiverCities

Future DiverCities – Creativity in an Urban Context is an innovative international collaboration between 9 cultural organisations from 8 countries. Future DiverCities is co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.

From September 2016, this 4 years experimentation will aim at exploring new models of creation and dissemination that support the future, cultural diversity and alternative ecosystems.
For more information, contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005.