ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland, 29 September -3 October
Deadline: 19 Feb
ANTI is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space. ANTI is inviting artists to submit textual, written and language-based responses to site specificity.(deadline: 19 February)
Over the past eight 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 Festival 2010 will focus on textual, written and language-based responses to site specificity. ANTI encourages artists working across a range of media to consider the following areas of enquiry, these include, but are not limited to:
* Page and screen-based responses to site - contextual approaches to publication and dissemination
* Mapping and mark-making - geographic and topographic textual processes
* Inscription - the materiality of writing
* Language and translation – nationhood and place
* Writing as performance - live writing as contextual and site-based practice
* Performance texts and site-based processes – spatial/contextual engagement and live utterance
As ANTI festival takes place in public space it is essential that proposals consider a site’s pre-existing ‘audience’; be they passers-by, customers or residents. Alongside those who purposely visit the festival, a substantial part of ANTI’s audience are members of the public who come across the works by chance.
More information about the call
More information about the festival
