One month to ANTI Festival 2020 – book your seats!
Media release 29.9.2020
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 27th October and 1st November 2020 in Kuopio, Finland. The 19th edition of ANTI Festival celebrates Kuopio’s winning nomination as the European Region of Gastronomy.
The festival programme takes on food from provocative and unique perspectives. Projects range from the intimate to the communal, we’ll be offered a window into the lives of strangers and be given opportunities to make new friends, we’ll eat together, think together, walk together and be together in ways that perhaps we haven’t for some time now.
The full festival programme and schedules are now available on our website. We have also published the ANTIZINE magazine which covers the festival programme and offers insightful perspectives, such as articles and recipes, on the festival themes. Pick up your printed copy, for example, at the Festival Centre in Kuopio.
We have of course designed this festival to take into account everything needed for us all to be safe. Please find our instructions for a safe festival experience here.
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For more information, contact:
Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005.
Book your seats!
Participation in our performances and other events requires booking (0€) in advance or registration at the venues. Bookings can be made through our online booking system at antifestival.com/en/programme!
Below we present events with a very limited audience capacity. Book your seat now!
Marja Viitahuhta (FI): Cakes for thought workshops
Tuesday 27.10. 16.00
Wednesday 28.10. 15.00
Thursday 29.10. 18.00
Cakes for thought is a project led by artist Marja Viitahuhta, where cakes and pastries are designed and made in honor of prominent feminist thinkers!
In the Cakes for thought workshops we will both bake cakes and discuss the theme of each workshop. Fragments and readings from the production of the person who inspired the cake in question will be heard as well.
The workshops will open perspectives of feminism in relation to climate politics, gender diversity and intersectionality.
You may buy and enjoy cakes for thought in Café Kaneli in Kuopio (Kauppakatu 22) during the festival week!
Tatu Rönkkö & Jyrki Tsutsunen (FI): Bones, Woods & Spoons
Wednesday 28.10. 20.00
Thursday 29.10. 20.00
An experimental dinner experience that serves meditation for all senses. Forget all the norms of Western dining.
Jyrki Tsutsunen uses hand-picked ingredients from the forest and new ways of preparing and serving the dinner, and Tatu Rönkkö creates a soundscape for the dinner using everyday objects and pieces of nature as his instruments.
Eating is a multi-sensory and multi-dimensional experience where not only tasting but also listening, smelling, looking and feeling different textures are brought to the foreground and bound together.
Dinner ticket: 10€
Eero Yli-Vakkuri (FI) & Tea Andreoletti (IT/FI): Encountering taste
Thursday 29.10. 14.00
Friday 30.10. 14.00
Saturday 31.10. 10.00
Sunday 1.11. 12.00
Encountering taste is a field excursion to a wild water source, followed by a culinary water tasting and discussions.
The performance aims to heighten the participants’ skills in identifying subtle tastes resulting from water’s reaction to modern
habitats.
Tasting can be considered as a geological or technological analysis of the site. Participants will also have an opportunity to experiment with synthetic mineral waters using natural and artificial mineral samples.
Shoji Kato (JP/FI) & Jani Mikkonen (FI): Descending
Friday 30.10. 11.45 – 18.30
Saturday 31.10. 10.15 – 17.30
Sunday 1.11. 10.15 – 13.30
45 min. / participant
Descending invites us to a pilgrimage to the outdoor site of a coffee ceremony.
To unleash our imagination and to encounter the invisible around us, the tasting will be carried out discreetly and quietly. The scenery, caffeine, wind, sounds, gestures and flavours will send us to a meta-journey. The bio-chemical, ecological, philosophical and social aspects all come together in this moment.
Balancing reasoning and intuition, being here and reaching there, Descending aims to open up new dialogues and to cultivate sensitivity. A cup of coffee invites us to descend
to something meaningful and surprising.
deufert & plischke (DE): A Worn World – Club Night
Thursday 29.10. 19.00 – 21.00
A Worn World – Club Night invites people to come dressed into something special: a garment they have a very, very personal relation with. Be it a secret desire, a memory, a challenge. All together we take these clothes out for a night of dance, celebrating hidden desires, dear memories and transgressing the power of the rules and regulations that surround us.
A Worn World is produced by the Future DiverCities project, and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Goethe-Institut Finnland & German Federal Foreign Office.
Shortlist LIVE! -programme
This year, we can offer a limited number of seats also in the performances by the nominees of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. These are “must see” experiences!
Friday 30.10. 19.00
Geumhyung Jeong (KR): Homemade RC Toy
Friday 30.10. 21.00
W A U H A U S (FI): Flashdance
Saturday 31.10. 15.00
Ingri Fiksdal (NO) & Fredrik Floen (NO): Spectral
Brian Fuata (AU): Apparitional Keynote Lecture will be experienced at the Liveworks Festival, Australia.
