One week to ANTI Festival 2020!
Media release 20.10.2020
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival starts in one week in Kuopio, Finland. The festival, with a theme of food, will take place between 27th October and 1st November 2020 as a part of the European Region of Gastronomy Kuopio celebration.
The safety of our audiences, artists and staff members has been at the centre of the festival production this year. It has been encouraging to notice that audiences consider our festival safe to attend; many events are already fully booked. Below some examples of events where there are still seats left.
Download the 2020 Programme and Daily Schedule
(pdf) HERE. Booking is not required in all cases, see where you can simply pop in!
ANTI events are all free of charge.
For more information, contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005.
Marja Viitahuhta (FI): Cakes for thought workshops
Wednesday 28.10. 15.00
Thursday 29.10. 18.00
You may buy and enjoy cakes for though in Café Kaneli in Kuopio (Kauppakatu 22) during the festival week!
Reality Research Center & Samuli Laine (FI): Nurture
Wednesday 28.10. 15.00 – 21.00
Thursday 29.10. 12.00 – 20.00
Saturday 31.10. 12.00 – 14.00 (public)
20 min. / participant
Nurture is a one-on-one performance investigating 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.
Future DiverCities: Interludes
Wednesday 28.10. 14.00
The international Future DiverCities (2016-2020) presents a series of remote Interludes at the end of the project.
We focus on issues related to near-future prospects for diverse and growing cities, the change of use of public spaces – incurred by the current sanitary crisis, for example – as well as to the urgent need to make our cities ecologically, socially, culturally and economically more sustainable and more livable.
In Kuopio, artists Anniina Aunola, Lauri Hei, Emma Fält, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Timo Kokko, Veera Launonen and Eevi Tolvanen will present perspectives to the themes of the Interludes series.
Debuty Mayor Pekka Vähänkangas, City of Kuopio, and Project Manager Sari Kaasinen, Saimaa Phenomenon 2026, will join the concluding discussion.
Eero Yli-Vakkuri (FI) & Tea Andreoletti (IT/FI): Encountering taste
Thursday 29.10. 14.00
Friday 30.10. 14.00
Saturday 31.10. 10.00
Sunday 1.11. 12.00
Encountering taste is a field excursion to a wild water source, followed by a culinary water tasting and discussions.
The performance aims to heighten the participants’ skills in identifying subtle tastes resulting from water’s reaction to modern
habitats.
Tasting can be considered as a geological or technological analysis of the site. Participants will also have an opportunity to experiment with synthetic mineral waters using natural and artificial mineral samples.
Shoji Kato (JP/FI) & Jani Mikkonen (FI): Descending
Friday 30.10. 11.45 – 18.30
Saturday 31.10. 10.15 – 17.30
Sunday 1.11. 10.15 – 13.30
45 min. / participant
Descending invites us to a pilgrimage to the outdoor site of a coffee ceremony.
To unleash our imagination and to encounter the invisible around us, the tasting will be carried out discreetly and quietly. The scenery, caffeine, wind, sounds, gestures and flavours will send us to a meta-journey. The bio-chemical, ecological, philosophical and social aspects all come together in this moment.
Balancing reasoning and intuition, being here and reaching there, Descending aims to open up new dialogues and to cultivate sensitivity. A cup of coffee invites us to descend
to something meaningful and surprising.
