Shortlist LIVE! Celebrates the Live Art Prize Nominees
Media release 10.9.2020
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is thrilled to present the four shortlisted artists for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art and their performances in the Shortlist LIVE! Programme – a unique set of artists and artworks for a unique year.
The nominees for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live are: Geumhyung Jeong (South Korea), W A U H A U S (Finland), Ingri Fiksdal (Norway) and Brian Fuata (Australia).
This year’s ANTI Festival marks the 2nd edition of Shortlist LIVE! and the nominees’ performances are presented through a mix of live, digital and remote showings during the festival taking place in Kuopio, Finland between 27th October and 1st November 2020.
World’s Only Prize for Live Art
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art is an extraordinary award that marks, celebrates and supports extraordinary artists. On Saturday 31st October we will award the Prize for the 7th time in Kuopio.
An international jury considers the nominees’ work from the past few years and experiences their recent works in the Shortlist LIVE! Programme together with other audiences.
The world’s only International Prize for Live Art is 30,000 euros, making it one of the richest cultural prizes in the arts. The winning artist receives a cash prize of 15,000 euros and the same amount in the form of a production grant for presenting a commissioned new work at the following year’s ANTI Festival.
The Prize is supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation, and the Shortlist LIVE! is supported
by the Kone Foundation.
Shortlist LIVE! Programme 2020
Geumhyung Jeong (KR): Homemade RC Toy
Friday 30.10. 19.00
VR Konepaja, Kuopio
In Homemade RC Toy Geumhyung Jeong creates choreographic assemblages with self-made robotic sculptures. In a series of intimate live encounters and sensual interaction with her homemade partners, she uses her body to communicate with them. Moving between moments of connection and disconnection, she incites the question: Who is driving the action? The human or the machine?
Geumhyung Jeong is a South Korea-born choreographer and performance artist whose practice began in the theatre and has extended to encompass installation and film. In her work, she constantly negotiates the relationship between the human body and the things surrounding it.
W A U H A U S (FI): Flashdance
Friday 30.10. 21.00
Lumit Stage, Kuopio
Flashdance is a performance where darkness materializes into sculptural landscapes and forms impossible for the human body. The audience is faced with their limited ability to see and the boundless terrain of their imagination. When we stare at darkness, we struggle to understand what we see and what we think we see.
W A U H A U S is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary arts collective that was formed in 2016. The collective creates contemporary theatre, performance art, and dance productions, as well as social choreography, lectures and workshops. The collective is known for their comprehensive audio-visual stage aesthetics and methods of shared authorship.
Ingri Fiksdal (NO): Spectral
Saturday 31.10. 15.00
ITAK Stage, Kuopio
Spectral takes shape as a choreographic exploration of a staged and moving landscape of different organisms and things. Within this multitude of human and non-human bodies a series of micro-movements can be perceived, and the configuration deforms and changes over time. The viewer experiences a concentrated, moving, breathing, pulsating, growing ecosystem, which blurs the boundaries between the different materialities.
Spectral is created by Ingri Fiksdal and Fredrik Floen. In Kuopio, due to traveling challenges caused by the global pandemic, we present Spectral as a film version shot during a live performance in Oslo, Norway, in September 2020.
Ingri Midgard Fiksdal is a choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. She is currently working on a number of projects addressing the intersection between the post-anthropocentric and the decolonial from a feminist perspective. Ingri is concerned with how practise and theory are entangled in her work in a way where neither is perceived as anterior to the other.
Brian Fuata (AU): Apparitional Keynote Lecture
Thursday 29.10.
Liveworks Festival, Sydney, Australia
Apparitional Keynote Lecture is a ghost lecture-performance that speculates on the future we are moving toward: a moment to gather together and collectively imagine what’s next. The work is based on Brian Fuata’s structured ghost improvisation.
Due to the current mobility challenges, caused by the global pandemic, Brian Fuata’s Shortlist LIVE! presentation will be experienced at the Liveworks Festival in Australia. In Kuopio, we will present his practice in a film screening event.
Brian Fuata works in the improvisation of performance and objects employing the image of the ghost as a structural device. His live works are in situ timed pieces that vary in period blocks. They integrate multiple genres and registers of performance and public speaking, to engage a new narrative that he makes in/of each site incorporating his material surrounds as potential subject matter.
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Shortlist LIVE! is an entity built around the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art which presents the annual award nominees extensively. One part of the entity is the bilingual Shortlist LIVE! publication.
