Newsletter 2/2020
A sculpture buried by ANTI Festival to be removed from its grave – welcome to take your own piece of Artefact!
An Impossible Performance Examines Coexistence and Relations of Codependency
New multiannual cooperation agreement with the City of Kuopio
A sculpture buried by ANTI Festival to be removed from its grave – welcome to take your own piece of Artefact!
In 2016, the Australian artists Willoh S Weiland and JR Brennan created the unforgettable production Artefact, performed with hundreds of local participants in Kuopio, Finland. The work was being edited into a remarkable film that was screened in the 2017 programmes of ANTI Festival and Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.
As a part of the Artefact performance we buried a 12 tonne stone into a wasteland of Kuopio. The Artefact saga will continue next week as the stone has to be removed due to a building project in the area.
We now invite the participants of the Artefact project as well as other audiences to the grave of the Artefact to witness the stone coming up and disappearing again. For technical reasons we will crush the stone into pieces and bury it into another location.
Welcome on Wednesday 11th March at 4 pm.
Address: “Technopolis park”, Savilahdentie 4, Kuopio, Finland
An Impossible Performance Examines Coexistence and
Relations of Codependency
Samuli Laine’s Nurture has been selected to the Reality Research Center’s Residency Program for Impossible Performance. Nurture will premiere at ANTI Festival between 8th and 13th September 2020.
Nurture is a one-on-one performance where Samuli Laine investigates the politics of gender, nurturing and coexistence through the act of breastfeeding. The performance emerged from a desire to suggest new perspectives softly and tenderly and study nurturing as a radical driver of change.
Nurture will create a space for a delicate encounter that deconstructs the traditionally gendered practice of breastfeeding. In the performance, Samuli Laine nurses the spectator-experiencer. This event will create a temporary bond between two people and provide a space where social norms can change. Nurture reaches towards an alternate state of being and invites the experiencer to daydream. At the same time, the performance challenges the standardized gender and body related expectations for breastfeeding.
Image above: Samuli Laine
New multiannual cooperation agreement with the City of Kuopio
Our Chair of Board Jenni Rissanen and Artistic Director Johanna Tuukkanen met in February to sign, from our side, a multiannual cooperation agreement with the City of Kuopio for the years 2020-2022! Thank you, City of Kuopio!
