ANTI Contemporary Art Festival 2016: Winter
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Whelan, Gregg 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5434-5985 and Tuukkanen, Johanna
(2016)
ANTI Contemporary Art Festival 2016: Winter.
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| Item Type: | Exhibition |
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| Event Summary: | ANTI Contemporary Arts Festival 2016: Winter/Kuopio, Finland /22–28/2/2016 |
| Creators: | Whelan, Gregg and Tuukkanen, Johanna |
| Abstract / Summary: | This curatorial practice research asks how performance makers and academics are exploring the personal, social and ecological concerns that connect individuals and communities to shared narratives and experiences of the weather with specific focus on winter. Produced by ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio, Finland) in partnership with Tahko Wilderness Centre (Kuopio), the research presented four publicly sited outdoor performance works and one international seminar; the outdoor nature of the performance programme meant audience and performance negotiated and participated in the sub-zero conditions of North Eastern Finland’s February. In bringing together artists working directly with the creative affordances/limitations cold weather offers their specific set of performance-based enquiries with academics working in the related fields of performance studies, meteorological and atmospheric research, film and anthropological studies (Sámi culture) the international programme offered artists, public audiences and academics a participatory, discursive, framework to physically and cognitively inhabit the cultural resonances and creative potentials encoded in our relationship to winter. The performance programme presented: Terje Isungset (NO), Ice Music; Tomi Paasonen (FI), World Cup Bling Troopers; Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey (AU), Shriek: Other Spaces (FI), Winter Wandering. An international seminar, Weather and the Imagination (a homage to Lucian Boia’s book of the same name) asked to what extent is the space of our collective and individual cultural identity shaped by the climate we inhabit, visit or watch from afar, with contributions from Professor Carl Lavery (UK, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Glasgow), Dr. Eimear Dunne (IE/FI, Senior Research Scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland), Dr. Reetta Karjalainen (FI, specialist in Sámi and indigenous people’s film practices) and artist/researcher Tuija Kokkonen (FI, practice-based research on the relationship between performance and the non-human agencies of animals, plants and weather). |
| Contributors: | Contribution Name Falmouth ID (DO NOT USE) Artist Isungset, Terje UNSPECIFIED Artist Paasonen, Tomi UNSPECIFIED Artist Flynn, Madeleine UNSPECIFIED Artist Humphrey, Tim UNSPECIFIED Artist Other Spaces, (Collective) UNSPECIFIED Contributor Lavery, Carl UNSPECIFIED Contributor Dunne, Eimear UNSPECIFIED Contributor Karjalainen, Reetta UNSPECIFIED Contributor Kokkonen, Tuija UNSPECIFIED |
| Official URL: | https://antifestival.com/en/programme-2016/ |
| Date: | 22 February 2016 |
| Funders: | City of Kuopio, Taike (Arts Promotion Centre Finland) |
| Additional Information: | Programme compilations: https://vimeo.com/156242146 https://vimeo.com/156520348 https://vimeo.com/156848411 https://vimeo.com/157167494 Madeleine Flynn & Tim Humphrey: https://vimeo.com/169254658 Tomi Paasonen: https://vimeo.com/168643005, https://vimeo.com/antifestival Terje Isungset: https://vimeo.com/167438027 Other Spaces: https://vimeo.com/166541062 Weather and the Imagination (seminar): https://vimeo.com/167448611 |
| Subjects: | Geography & Environment > Climate Change Performance > Theatre > Drama Arts > Geographic Philosophy & Psychology Performance > Theatre |
| Courses by Department: | Academy of Music & Theatre Arts > Theatre |
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| Depositing User: | Gregg Whelan |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2020 14:34 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2022 16:22 |
| URI: | https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/4083 |
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