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, with artists whose primary space of engagement is digital technology and digital culture. The Lab artists are Joseph O’Farrell (Australia), Nastja Säde Rönkkö (Finland), Anne Roquigny (France) and Davor Sanvincenti (Croatia).
The Lab is hosted by ANTI in partnership with creative facilitators The Map Consortium (UK)
and artists local to Kuopio.
This year, ANTI Festival takes the 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. For example, the young people in Petonen are invited to participate in the process.
For more information, go to our website or contact Elisa Itkonen: +358 50 305 2005, info@antifestival.com.
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Public sharing on 20th Sep at 6 pm.
At Pinari youth centre,
Pyörönkaari Street 19
The Lab process and its outcomes will be shared in a public event during the ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2017.
Welcome!
Lab Artists 2017
Joseph O’Farrell (AU)
Joseph O’Farrell (JOF) is a multi-art performer, producer, curator, musician and lecturer making work between Melbourne and London.
JOF creates large-scale installation/theatre works with, and for, community that celebrates diversity and brings people together in hilarious and unlikely situations. READ MORE
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (FI)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (b.1985) is an artist working internationally. She creates projects that explore presence, intimacy and love across human interactions and social rituals, from the everyday to the profound. Performance, video, text, the Internet and various social interventions are used as an extension or outcome of the projects. READ MORE
Anne Roquigny (FR)
Anne Roquigny is an independent French media art curator specialised in hybrid digital projects; networks, Internet, and sound and visual arts. She is the creator of the Webjays project, an innovative public display for curating and exhibiting online projects. Her performances, shows, workshops, conferences and publications have been presented internationally at renown venues, festivals and museums. READ MORE
Davor Sanvincenti (HR)
Davor Sanvincenti (b.1979) is a International multimedia artist from Croatia specifically interested in a field of audiovisual phenomenology and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. READ MORE
