New openings and discussion at ANTI Festival
Media release 27.9.2018
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is running in Kuopio, Finland. We open new works and host discussion meetings today and tomorrow, see below!
Also remember the programme which opened in the beginning of the week and continues till Saturday.
For more information: Elisa Itkonen, +358 50 305 2005, elisa@antifestival.com.
ANTI Live Art Prize Shortlist 2018, Helsinki
Thursday 27.9. 17.00
Publics | Sturenkatu Street 37-41 4B) Helsinki
Welcome to meet with the 2018 shortlisted artists for ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art! All The Queens Men(Australia), Nic Green (United Kingdom), Jeanne van Heeswijk (Netherlands) and Sonya Lindfors(Finland) will present their work and discuss with Publics’ artistic director Paul O’Neill and the audience.
The event is organised in collaboration with Publics.
We announce the 2018 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art in an online short film and ANTI Prize Party on Saturday 29th in restaurant Panza, Kuopio!
How do we talk about games?
Thursday 27.9. 18.00
Restaurant Malja | Kauppakatu Street 29
Discussion and network meeting.
The working language of the evening is Finnish.
How do we talk about games (in Finland)? What kind of conceptions do we have of video and mobile game-playing? How is gaming used in our everyday life and, for example, in arts? How could we benefit more from gaming in different social fields? How could we create operational models and communities through gaming?
We have invited specialists on games and gaming from different contexts to discuss these questions. After the panel discussion we will continue with informal networking!
The event is organized in collaboration with IGDA Kuopio, Games for Health Finland and The Finnish Critics’ Association (SARV).
Meetlab (HU): TRON
TRON continues from Petonen to the city centre!
Thursday 27.9. 18.00 – 22.00
Friday 28.9. 18.00 – 24.00
Saturday 29.9. 18.00 – 22.00
Koljonniemenkatu Street 3
We invite people of Kuopio to play TRON, the legendary and simple one-on-one video game, laser projected on a wall of a building. TRON takes us back in time to the creation of our first video games. Let’s play, cheer and challenge the winners all night long!
A Kuopio based dj, DJ Tesno adds party vibes to TRON on Friday and Saturday evenings!
John Court (FI/UK) & Mark Harvey (NZ): Drop Kick
Friday 28.9. 10.00 – 16.00
Snellmanin puisto Park
Saturday 29.9. 10.00 – 16.00
Kuopio Market Square & streets around
Drop Kick will involve playful endurance/durational actions performed by John Court and Mark Harvey together with apparatuses that they develop in workshops with local youth through a process of guided collaboration. Notions of play will be explored through a sense of free-association in the development of these large objects with participants and the way in which Court and Harvey choose to respond to them through their actions.
Theatre of Research (DE): Playing Up
Friday 28.9. – Saturday 29.9. 11.00 – 17.00
ANTI pop-up play space | Hallikatu Street 14
Make clothes out of food, lie on top of cars, dance with animals, have a ketchup fight, follow a random passerby, invent your own form of sport, search for miracles. Drawing on key Live Art themes and seminal works, PLAYING UP takes the form of a game played by adults and kids together.
Anna Maria Häkkinen, Lotta Suomi, Emil Uuttu (FI): Wrestling Club
Friday 28.9. 19.00 – 21.00
Saturday 29.9. 18.00 – 20.00
Element Studio | Maaherrankatu Street 21
The Wrestling Club is a workshop and performance installation. The artists gather to wrestle with local workshop participants to prepare participants’ bodies for the performance. Audiences are invited to follow the pre-written but unrehearsed performance, featuring a loud bass-driven DJ set, and feeling the bodily experience of wrestlers in their own bodies.
Photo above: Kristian Palmu
Tania El Khoury (LB): The Search for Power
Friday 28.9. 19.00
Saturday 29.9. 19.00
Railway workshop | Pohjolankatu Street 1
Ask for possible open seats: booking@antifestival.com!
Installation performance by Tania El Khoury in collaboration with Ziad Abu-Rish.
On a night with a sudden electricity outage in their Beirut neighbourhood, the artist and her historian husband discussed the history of power cuts in Lebanon…
Tania El Khoury, the 2017 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art returns to Kuopio with her new commissioned work!
