Only a month to ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Media release 23.8.2017
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival starts in only one month on 19th 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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Opening day 19th Sep 2017
Artefact (film) & Festival Opening
Tuesday 19th Sep at 5 pm.
Maria stage of Kuopio City Theatre | Niiralankatu Street 2
In 2016, Willoh S.Weiland and JR Brennancreated the unforgettable production Artefact, performed with hundreds of local participants in Kuopio. The work has now being edited into a remarkable film to be screened during the festival week. READ MORE
Gwendoline Robin (BE): Cratère n°6899
Tuesday 19th Sep at 8 pm.
Shopping centre Sektori | Puijonkatu Street 23
Cratère n°6899 is a performative approach to the element of Water.
“I look for the link between the worlds of stars and oceans through our relationship with the water. A comet falls into the Earth. A crater is formed: different transformations appear. The landscape evolves in the rhythm of these actions.”
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Terike Haapoja (FI): Studies on Freedom I
Tuesday 19th Sep (– Friday 22nd Sep)
3 pm. – 7 pm. Provincial Courthouse (the yard) | Minna Canthin katu Street 64
In collaboration with a local high school, we asked the students to write a letter to the inmates, where they can express their understanding of freedom and responsibility, norms and punishments, and the freedoms and lacks of freedoms they experience as parts of their life outside the prison, as well as ask questions from the prisoners. The letters were read by the voluntary student class of Kuopio Prison prisoners who then responded to them in writing. These letters can be heard from headphones located outside the courthouse. READ MORE
Terike Haapoja (FI): Gravitation
Tuesday 19th Sep (– Saturday 23rd Sep)
Photographies and book preview
Gravitation marks a turn to a more intimate, direct approach in Haapoja’s practice. The series of c. 80 photographs are born from a personal urgency that bypasses discourse. Created at fast pace during a time of severe physical and emotional distress, the images reveal moments of desire, mortality, abandonment and agency, objectification and the desire to become an object. The exhibition presents selected prints from the series alongside a preview of the upcoming publication Gravitation (2017). READ MORE
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