Gregg Whelan – Chair of Shortlisting Committee 2022 for ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art

17.2.2022

In October 2021, Gregg Whelan stepped down from the position of Co-Artistic Director of ANTI Festival. Gregg joined Trinity College London as Director of Performance in 2020.

We are sad to see Gregg go but incredibly happy to work with him in the process of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art once more; Gregg is the Chair of Shortlisting Committee 2022. We will announce the other members of the Committee later this week.

Gregg and Johanna Tuukkanen’s 15 year collaboration as co-Artistic Directors saw ANTI Festival develop into an internationally acknowledged, award-winning arts organisation; we established the Live Art Prize – followed by the Shortlist LIVE! Programme and began year-round programmes of projects and artist residencies.

Thank you and congratulations for the pioneering work for live art, for ANTI, for Kuopio, Gregg!

Gregg Whelan is best known as co-founder, with Gary Winters, of the performance company Lone Twin. Since 1997 the company’s work has been shown across the world to critical and popular acclaim. From 2007 to 2021 Gregg was Co-Artistic Director of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Finland. In 2010 Gregg began a Research Fellowship at King’s College London and held the position of Professor of Performance at Falmouth University from 2013 to 2020.

Photo: Kate Mount