Experience A Thousand Ways by 600 HIGHWAYMEN at ANTI Festival
Media release 11.6.2021
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 14th and 19th September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. We are thrilled to announce a new addition in the festival programme: A Thousand Ways by the world’s most acclaimed theatre companies, the New York based
600 HIGHWAYMEN.
A Thousand Ways is a performance about communion, distance, and reconnection. An enthralling, imaginative, and profound social experience that delivers us from isolation to congregation. It is a concept that has been touring in several live art events around the US and Europe during the past year, and ANTI is excited to bring the work
also to Finland!
ANTI presents two parts of the three-part performance, Part One: A Phone Call and Part Two: An Encounter. In both parts you are the actor and you are the audience. Your words, actions, gestures, silence, thoughts, and willingness are the tools. You need no training. You are the expert.
For the exact performance times, go to antifestival.com. Please hold the line,
we will open the booking system in August!
A THOUSAND WAYS (Part One): A Phone Call
8.-18.9.2021
@ YOUR LOCATION / REMOTE
100% COVID safe
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.
A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Two): An Encounter
14.-19.9.2021
@ KUOPIO ART MUSEUM, WORKSHOP SPACE
You and a stranger meet on opposite ends of a table, separated by a pane of glass. Using a script and a few simple objects, a simple exercise of working together becomes an experience of profound connection with another person.
Working group
Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Line Producer: Cynthia J. Tong
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher