Newsletter 03-04/2021
The 20th ANTI Festival
Global City Local City Lab Reykjavík
ANTI Festival’s new board
The 20th ANTI Festival
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival takes place in Kuopio between 14th and 19th September 2021. As we approach our 20th festival, amid these challenging times, we turn to an idea that sits at the heart of ANTI Festival’s mission – free to attend for audiences, the festival is framed from within an idea of a gift. We celebrate two decades of activity, to think through the founding principle of the festival – to give, to be in the act of giving. As usual, the festival participates in various topical discussions and shakes our notions on the human, the society and the arts.
The leading work of the 2021 ANTI Festival is A Great Mess by the Helsinki based art collective, WAUHAUS. The site-sensitive performance transports us to a waste disposal site – the largest landfill in the Eastern Finland. It offers a glimpse into a world where humans no longer see themselves as the centre of the universe.
We’ve also released the new work by Dana Michel, the 2019 Winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. VANESSA VECTOR WILLIAM DODGER is a live film project by the Canadian Dana Michel and Tracy Maurice.
The full festival programme will be released during the spring.
Global City Local City Lab Reykjavík
The second Global City Local City Lab is organised by the Reykjavík Dance Festival between 8th and 18th April 2021. The first GCLC Lab was organised in October 2020, in the context of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival.
Artists and curators in Reykjavík and around the world work together to explore hyper-localised or locally-responsive approaches to place, local histories, situations or conditions. They experiment, research and share knowledge and practices together.
Global City Local City (link) is a collaboration project between ANTI Festival (coordinator) in Kuopio, Finland, Reykjavík Dance Festival in Iceland and The Map Consortium in the United Kingdom.
The Reykjavík lab participants are:
Wiola Ujazdowska – Reykjavík, Iceland
Gígja Jónsdóttir – Reykjavík, Iceland
Nína Hjálmarsdóttir – Reykjavík, Iceland
Erik DeLuca – Reykjavík, Iceland
Andrea Vilhjálmsdóttir – Reykjavík, Iceland
Rima Najdi – Berlin, Germany
Chiara Organtini – Terni, Italy
Taija Jyrkäs – Oulu, Finland
Tiina Pehkonen – Kainuu, Finland
Anna-Maria Väisänen – Kuopio, Finland
Erin Boberg Doughton – Portland, US
Subashini Ganesan – Portland, US
Hosted by the Reykjavík Dance Festival, and facilitated by Chris Higgins, Martin Gent and Karen Da Silva
from The Map Consortium.
ANTI Festival’s new board
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival Association organised an annual meeting on 30th March 2021. The members of the association selected new board members who represent various fields of the the society.
CEO Jenni Rissanen (in the photo) continues as the Chair of Board,
and the other members of the board (2021-2022) are:
Director Johanna Haapakorva
Activist Savu Kimalle (new)
Advocate Karoliina Partanen
Youth Counselor Janna Savallampi
Project Manager Sanna Sutinen
R&D Specialist Jyri Wuorisalo
You as well may join our association, read here (link) how to apply for the membership!
