The third edition of Shortlist LIVE! Publication is out
Media release 26.8.2021
Shortlist LIVE! Publication is a bilingual essay publication focusing on Live Art. It presents the annual nominees for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art and strengthens the offer of art essays in Finland, and globally.
In 2021, the nominees are Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (PL/UK), Florentina Holzinger (AT), keyon gaskin (US), and Narcissister (US). The publication is part of Shortlist LIVE! entity, which presents the nominated artists and their works extensively, also live in Kuopio at the ANTI Festival on September 14-19, 2021.
The nominated artists have suggested the authors for the essays themselves. The texts show how diverse group of artists is presented in Shortlist LIVE!, but also how the idea of an artist essay can be approached in many different ways. Some writers have worked with the artists who they are writing about in their essays, and the reader gets to experience the unique sharpness and warmth generated by the familiarity between the writer and the subject.
In addition to artist essays, Shortlist LIVE! #3 features an interview with Brian Fuata, the 2020 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. As a guest writer-critic and essayist Maaria Ylikangas provides an elegy for performance in a form of lyrical essay.
Buy your copy of the Publication at liveartprize.com (link) and at ANTI Festival, Kuopio 14.-19.9.2021!
Georg Döcker: Florentina Holzinger
Doctoral candidate, researcher Georg Döcker provides a comprehensive overview of Florentina Holzinger’s artistic career and practice with a humorous twist.
sidony o’neal: keyon gaskin
The meaningfulness of the artist biographies is also reflected by sidony o’neal, who writes about the art of keyon gaskin. gaskin does not want to contextualize their own work with their credentials. Why so and what does it produce for the audience-artist or audience-art relationship? And how to write a fruitful artist essay in this case?
Ariel Osterweis: Narcisissister
The essay on Narcisisster is an excerpt from the article Public Pubic: Narcissister’s Performance of Race, Disavowal, and Aspiration by professor of performance studies Ariel Osterweis, published originally in 2015 in TDR / The Drama Review.
Katarzyna Słoboda: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
The questions of choreography, touch, and intimacy are in the core of the art of Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, and thus also curator, researcher, and writer Katarzyna Słoboda addresses them in her essay Choreographies of Queer Intimacy – On Alex Baczynski-Jenkins’ Prcatice.
Editorial Staff & Publishers
Shortlist LIVE! publication #3 has been edited by Heidi Backström, translated by Essi Brunberg, and the visual layout is by Tomi Leppänen. The magazine is published in collaboration with ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and Live Art Development Agency (LADA).
Shortlist LIVE! is supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Kone Foundation.
