NEWSLETTER 8/2017
ANTI Festival taking over the public spaces of Kuopio again
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 19th and 24th September and takes over the public spaces of Kuopio again. The festival has built a programme of projects around water as, this year, it has partnered with projects and organisations working around it, such as Our Water-Conscious Land project and Kuopio Water Company. Artists, from around the world, work in the framework of politics and poetics of water.
Updated programme and schedule on our website!
The festival is free to attend.
For more information, go to our website or contact Elisa Itkonen: +358 50 305 2005, info@antifestival.com.
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Future DiverCities Artist Lab in Kuopio 14.-20.9.2017
ANTI Festival will be hosting the second Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio prior and during the festival. Four international artists will be exploring how digital technologies can augment socially engaged arts practices.
The Future DiverSocieties Lab will pair performance makers, who are socially engaged with participatory frameworks, with artists whose primary space of engagement is digital technology and digital culture.
The Lab is hosted by ANTI in partnership with creative facilitators The Map Consortium (UK) and artists local to Kuopio.
Lab Artist 2017
Joseph O’Farrell (AU)
Joseph O’Farrell (JOF) is a multi-art performer, producer, curator, musician and lecturer making work between Melbourne and London.
JOF creates large-scale installation/theatre works with, and for, community that celebrates diversity and brings people together in hilarious and unlikely situations. READ MORE
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (FI)
Nastja Säde Rönkkö (b.1985) is an artist working internationally. She creates projects that explore presence, intimacy and love across human interactions and social rituals, from the everyday to the profound. Performance, video, text, the Internet and various social interventions are used as an extension or outcome of the projects. READ MORE
Anne Roquigny (FR)
Anne Roquigny is an independent French media art curator specialised in hybrid digital projects; networks, Internet, and sound and visual arts. She is the creator of the Webjays project, an innovative public display for curating and exhibiting online projects. Her performances, shows, workshops, conferences and publications have been presented internationally at renown venues, festivals and museums. READ MORE
Davor Sanvincenti (HR)
Davor Sanvincenti (b.1979) is a International multimedia artist from Croatia specifically interested in a field of audiovisual phenomenology and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. READ MORE
Volunteer for ANTI Festival!
We are looking for voluntary assistants to help us preparing and carrying out ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2017. We offer task between 14th and 25th September but your help is, especially, needed during the festival September 19-24.
Please sign up by filling this form! Welcome to enjoy the ANTI community and the event!
For more information, please contact elisa@antifestival.com or +358 50 305 2005 !
