Willoh S. Weiland Returns to Kuopio with a Magical Artefact

A new work, Artefact by Willoh S. Weiland, the winner of the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2015, will premiere in Kuopio, Finland in only one week on Friday 28th October!!! The Australian artist and her collaborator, musical director JR Brennan have already returned to the city to work on the project with the community of Kuopio, its best loved choirs and a group of death metal singers including Antti Boman from Demilich and Markus Laakso from Chaosweaver.

Artefact is a memorial ceremony for obsolete technology.

It commemorates the mysterious phenomenon of brand disappearance from Blackberry, to Nokia. It is a tribute to the immortal consumer icons we have internationally adored and the intimate and fickle ways we worship them. At this interdisciplinary event, we will farewell the products that have formed us with performance, sound, documentary and pathos.

How to Get There?

Make sure that your location is Kuopio, Finland. Artefact 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 – free of charge!

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

Please wear black at the Church, if possible.

We recommend using the public transport, cycling or walking to the Puijo Church. There are free parking lots next to the venue.

From the Puijo Church, we will walk together to the “Technopolis Park”. In case you come by car, the access to the Teknia parking area is via Savilahdentie Street 6. Please notice that the burial of our Artefact takes place outdoors. Wear warm clothes!

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

Full credits on our website!

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!