Shortlist LIVE! 2020
Geumhyung Jeong (KR): HOMEMADE RC TOY
Photo: Evelyn Bencicova.
In Homemade RC Toy Geumhyung Jeong creates choreographic assemblages with self-made robotic sculptures.
In a series of intimate live encounters and sensual interaction with her homemade partners, she uses her body to communicate with them. Moving between moments of connection and disconnection, she incites the question: Who is driving the action? The human or the machine?
At the dawn of a technologically endorsed future, “Homemade RC Toy” is both a curious, mechanical ballet and an invigorating sexual fantasy that explores the ever-shifting boundaries of the animate and inanimate in the age of the cyborg.
Schedules and seat reservations: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/geumhyung-jeong-kr-homemade-rc-toy/
W A U H A U S (FI): Flashdance
Photo: Samuli Laine.
When we stare at darkness, we struggle to understand what we see and what we think we see. Background and foreground begin to blend. When our perception is limited our minds begin to wander, and the unknown occupies more and more space.
Flashdance is a performance where darkness materializes into sculptural landscapes and forms impossible for the human body. The audience is faced with their limited ability to see and the boundless terrain of their imagination.
In our society where illumination inevitably creates more and more self-control and light penetrates everything, darkness can open open up a path to not-knowing. From the outside, we cannot know what the inside is like, and standing in the light, we cannot see into the darkness.
Schedules and seat reservations: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/w-a-u-h-a-u-s-fi-flashdance/
INgri fiksdal & fredrik floen (NO): Spectral
Photo: Fredrik Floen.
Spectral takes shape as a choreographic exploration of a staged and moving landscape of different organisms and things. Within this multitude of human and non-human bodies, a series of micro-movements can be experienced, and the configuration deforms and changes over the time. The viewer experiences a concentrated, moving, breathing, pulsating, growing ecosystem, which blurs the boundaries between the different materialities.
This emerging performative ecosystem is inspired by molluscs, tardigrades, the sci-fi literature of Nnedi Okarofor, jungles, damp basements, the Annihilation alien, garbage dumps, visual artist Pierre Huyghe, kidney stones, Mandelbrot fractals and much more!
In Kuopio - due to traveling challenges caused by the global pandemic - we present a screening of the Spectral film shot during a live performance in Oslo, Norway, in September 2020.
Schedules and seat reservation: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/ingri-fiksdal-no…loen-no-spectral/
Brian Fuata (AU): APPARITIONAL KEYNOTE LECTURE
Photo: Louis Lim.
Apparitional Keynote Lecture, is a ghost lecture-performance that speculates on the future we are moving toward: a moment to gather together and collectively imagine what's next.
The work is based on Brian Fuata’s structured ghost improvisation. A capital element of Fuata's practice is one of absorbency allowing what artist and the Mother of House of Slé, Bhenji Ra notes as being one that reads the room, from which the constituent actors of a given site or context are reconfigured into an open text of poesis, sense, non-sense, and emotion.
In Apparitional Keynote Lecture, Fuata will bear witness to all Liveworks Festival’s works: filtering the dreams, speculations, disruption and propositions presented over the five days of Liveworks through the unique lens of his artistic practice.
Due to the current mobility challenges, caused by the global pandemic, Brian Fuata’s Shortlist LIVE! presentation will be experienced at the Liveworks Festival, Sydney, Australia. In Kuopio, we will present his practice in a film screening event.
Schedules and seat reservations: https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/brian-fuata-au-apparitional-keynote-lecture-2/