Submit proposal for ANTI Festival 2021 by 15th Jan, 4 pm. (EET) – See also Reality Research Center’s Call for Applications

Media release 11.1.2021

The 20th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 14th and 19th September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. We now invite artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with the theme of gifts and giving.

As we approach our 20th festival, amid these challenging times, we turn to an idea that sits at the heart of ANTI Festival’s mission – free to attend for audiences, the festival is framed from within; its name translates from the Finnish as ‘gift’.

In addition see below for Reality Research Center’s call for applications to the Residency for Impossible Performance initiative.

“What better time, as we celebrate two decades of activity, to think through the founding principle of the festival – to give, to be in the act of giving. When working on ANTI we have often returned to the idea of the pure gift – an act which is not elicited, not bought, not reciprocated, not anticipated perhaps, but instead breaks our more usual models of exchange, it disrupts and often makes us uncomfortable. It doesn’t require anything in return, its value is not expressed by what might be offered back, instead it sets up a different kind of exchange, a different kind of encounter. Ideas of giving evoke similarly challenging acts – to give care, to give attention, to give one’s self,”

Artistic Directors Gregg Whelan and Johanna Tuukkanen write.

We are seeking to identify between two and five small scale projects, through the open call. Supported projects will sit within a broader programme of invited works.

Successful projects will engender engagement with audiences and publics and will have a physical manifestation on the ground in Kuopio – remote and digital projects can be proposed however an element of the project must engage directly with the festival’s local audience and environment.

Submitting a Proposal for ANTI Festival 2021

Read the application guidelines carefully before submitting your proposal.

Send your proposal by using this electric form.

The proposal deadline for all proposals is 15.1.2021 at 16.00 (EET/Finnish time). PLEASE NOTE time differences!

Reality Research Center: Call for Applications

The Residency Program for Impossible Performance invites applications from artists at the beginning of their career or people with an otherwise utopian agenda who work in performing arts in Finland and who have dreams that haven’t come true yet.

The program is part of the main programme of Reality Research Center in 2019-2021.

Reality Research Center will select the artists for the residency through an open application process and each year the Artists in Residency will produce an “impossible”, unprecedented performance for the ANTI Festival in September.

The application period for the 2021 residency is 15 Dec 2020 – 17 Jan 2021. Read further instructions from Reality Research Center’s webpage!