Search Party
Eva Weaver
Akashapushpa
Curious
Christa Donner
Chris Dupuis
Paul Gazzola
Werther Germondari
Davida Hewlett
Katherine Hymers
Johanna Lecklin
Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Anu Pennanen & Laura Horelli (FI)
xxx group
Frank Bolter
plan b
24/9/2008
ANTI Festival
Different venues, Kuopio
An international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. Over the past six years ANTI has presented live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today's most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland's foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces of everyday life.
ANTI is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. Over the past six years ANTI has presented live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today’s most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland’s foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes and responds to the places and spaces of everyday life. Free of charge to all visitors
The 7th edition of the ANTI Festival will be as playful, social, challenging and surprising as it ever has been. Performance and installation, sound works and text pieces, all created in response to public sites around Kuopio, a welcoming lakeside Finnish city. For ANTI 2008 Kuopio’s residents open their homes to audiences and host works made for domestic space. Other projects take place in a sports stadium, on a public stage, across the network of city streets and on, and under, the Rönö bridge. Completely free to visit this year’s festival presents some of the most exciting artists from Finland, Europe North America and Australia.
Artists:
* Search Party (UK)
* Eva Weaver (DE/UK)
* Akashapushpa (FI)
* Curious (UK)
* Christa Donner (US)
* Chris Dupuis (CA)
* Paul Gazzola (AU/DE)
* Werther Germondari (IT)
* Davida Hewlett (CA/UK)
* Katherine Hymers (UK)
* Johanna Lecklin (FI)
* Hanna Pajala-Assefa (FI)
* Anu Pennanen & Laura Horelli (FI)
* xxx group (FI)
* Frank Bölter (DE)
* plan b (DE/UK)
Every year we thank those who help us realise the festival, especially those who grant us access to the sites we use. This year we acknowledge the immense generosity of those who are literally opening their homes to the festival and inviting artists to create projects in their own living space. We can look forward to the unique prospect of entering these private worlds and experiencing projects in these quite everyday, but nonetheless extraordinary circumstances. To those who afford us this possibility in allowing artists and audiences into your home, we offer our most sincere thanks.
The meeting of public and private space feels very much to be at the heart of ANTI which for seven years has investigated how contemporary art might react to and shape the spaces we live in. This year is no exception with projects taking place across the city, on its streets, squares, offices and bridges. Stories will be collected and filmed in Kuopio’s own Story Café, your problems will be solved by the Problem Guy, a pop song will be written and performed for Kuopio, giving the town its own temporary anthem, among many inspiring projects from some of the world’s most inspiring artists.
In this Olympic year, ANTI stages its own games, of sorts. Motorists will be alerted to the end of a race they had no knowledge of competing in, laps of honour will be run in the name of local causes as ANTI visits the Väinölänniemi stadium and the entire town, every man, woman and child is challenged to a marathon game of ping-pong. It’s ANTI festival again. Let the games begin!
Johanna Tuukkanen & Gregg Whelan
http://www.antifestival.com
September 25th - 28th 2008, Kuopio, Finland