Welcome to Celebrate the Winner of ANTI Prize for Live Art!

ANTI Prize Weekend will take place in Kuopio, Finland between 27th and 29th October 2016. ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art is the core of the event. During the weekend, we will celebrate both the new work by the last year’s winner and the winner 2016!

On Saturday 29th October, we will announce the 2016 winner of the ANTI Prize for Live Art. Four outstanding contemporary artists or collectives are competing for the world’s only Prize for Live Art; the nominees are Action Hero (UK), Terike Haapoja (FI), My Barbarian (US) and Public Movement (IL). The Prize is funded by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

Welcome to the Prize Ceremony and ANTI Prize Party to the restaurant Puikkari (Maaherrankatu Street 5) on Saturday 29th October at 8 pm!

The event is open to everyone and there is no entrance fee before 8 pm. Please see the programme of the evening on our website!

In the year 2015 the Prize was won by Willoh S. Weiland. The Australian artist and her working group have now returned to Kuopio to work on Artefact which will premier in Kuopio on Friday 28th October.

Willoh S. Weiland (AU): Artefact

Artefact is a ceremony for obsolete technology.

At this interdisciplinary event, we will farewell the products that have formed us with performance, sound, documentary and pathos. It will take place in Kuopio’s Puijo Church and from there we will move to a mysterious no-one’s land on the city’s outer edge to witness the burial of our own Artefact.

Friday 28th October

6 pm. The Puijo Church
(Taivaanpankontie Street 3)
7.30 pm. “The Technopolis Park”
(next to the skate park on Savilahdentie Street 4)

No entrance fee. For more information, go to our website!

Artists

Conceived and Directed by Willoh S. Weiland (AU)
Performance created by Willoh S. Weiland and JR Brennan (AU)
Music Direction and Composition by JR Brennan
Artefact by Susan Cohn (AU) and Willoh S. Weiland
Cinematography by Kim Saarinen (FI)
Photo by Bryony Jackson (AU)

Artefact is a new commissioned work for ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and a co-production with the Australian Aphids Events. The project is supported by the Finnish Saastamoinen Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts.

For more information, go to our website or contact Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005!