INVITATION: ANTI Prize Party, Sat 23rd Sep – ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art
Media release 11.9.2017
The ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded again in Kuopio, Finland. The world’s only International Prize for Live Art is 30,000 euros, with the winning artist receiving a cash prize of 15,000 euros and the same amount in the form of a production grant for bringing a new work to the ANTI Festival in the following year.
The winner 2017 will be announced at ANTI Prize Party
on Saturday 23rd September at 8 pm.
in restaurant Intro (Kauppakatu Street 20), welcome!
The nominees Sethembile Msezane (South Africa) and Tania El Khoury (Lebanon) will arrive to the Prize Party. The other nominees are the vacuum cleaner (United Kingdom) ja Alexandra Pirici (Romania). Besides the nominees, ANTI Festival presents the work of the previous winners of the Prize; the winner 2017, Terike Haapoja’s (in the image) series of works, Studies on Freedom and exhibition, Gravitation will be experienced in the festival programme.
The winner 2015, Willoh S. Weiland presents Artefact, a movie created during the Artefact spectacle 2016, in the festival opening.
ANTI Prize Party & ANTI-Humu club
Saturday 23rd September at 8 pm.
Restaurant Intro, Kauppakatu Street 20
The prize ceremony will be followed by a magical party, arranged in collaboration with a local music collective Humu-klubi! READ MORE
Prize Nominees in Kuopio
The prize nominees, Sethembile Msezane and Tania El Khoury will be arriving to the Prize Party.
Besides the nominees, a representative of the Jury, artist and curator Rivel Lin will take part in the ceremont,
This year’s Jury consists of Fiona Winning (chair), Lois Keidan and River Lin. READ MORE
Terike Haapoja (FI): Studies on Freedom I-II & Gravitation
Tuesday 19th – Saturday 23rd Sep
The 2016 winner Terike Haapoja returns to Kuopio and ANTI Festival with a series of new works; Studies on Freedom I-II and Gravitation (image).
After more than a decade of working on our relationship with nature and the nonhuman world, Haapoja is turning her gaze to the figure of the human. How are we, as people, bound to the binaries of freedom and subjectivity? Studies on Freedom is a commissioned series of works for ANTI Festival. The two studies discuss
freedom and it’s limits.
marks a turn to a more intimate, direct approach in Haapoja’s practice. The series of c. 80 photographs are born from a personal urgency that bypasses discourse. Created at fast pace during a time of severe physical and emotional distress, the images reveal moments of desire, mortality, abandonment and agency, objectification and the desire to become an object. The exhibition presents selected prints from the series alongside a preview of the upcoming publication Gravitation (2017). READ MORE
Willoh S. Weiland & JR Brennan (AU) & crew: Artefact (elokuva)
Tuesday 19th Sep at 5 pm.
Kuopio City Theatre, Niiralankatu Street 2
In 2016, Willoh S.Weiland and JR Brennan created the unforgettable production Artefact, performed with hundreds of local participants in Kuopio. The work has now being edited into a remarkable film! READ MORE
More information
on our website and Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival, +358 50 305 2005.
Press photos: antifestival.com/media
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