NORDIC CONFERENCE

This year ANTI Festival hosts a Nordic conference. This is an oppor- tunity for Nordic artists, curators, critics and academics to discuss the various challenges of creating and supporting contemporary performance and live art in our region and beyond.

Conference presentations and discussion themes include:
• Text-based performance and the Nordic context; what does it mean to create language-based work in ‘The North’ where languages do not have the same level of internationalism as, for example, English?
• What are the present challenges to the international visibility of con- temporary Nordic performance practice?
• What collaborative models of support and co-commissioning might best facilitate the creation and touring of contemporary Nordic per- formance practice?
• What modes of circulation and networking can best support individu- als, venues and arts organisations involved in contemporary perform- ance practice across the Nordic region?

Presentations and talks are given by a wide range of Nordic organisa- tions and artists including Pilvi Porkola (Esitys –the Finnish performance journal, Finland), Maija Hirvanen (Edge of Europe, Finland), Living Art Museum (Iceland), Agnes Nedregard (Nordic Tantrum, Forum for Nordic Performance Art, Norway), Suvi Nurmi (Finland), Annette Arlander (Theatre Academy, Finland), SU-EN (Sweden), Johannes Blomqvist (Sverigefinska folkhögskolan, Sweden) and the Nordic keðja project.

Daily ticket: 10€, 8€ for students, the unemployed and members of artists’ associations.
Registration by 24th of September at +358 50 3052 005 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

PROGRAMME:

TUE 28.9.
13.00 - 15.00 What are the present challenges to the international visibility of contemporary Nordic performance practice?
Pilvi Porkola, Esitys Journal, Finland & Agnes Nedregard, Nordic Tantrum Journal, Norway

15.00 –  17.30 What models of circulation and networking can best support individuals, venues and art organisations involved in contemporary performance practice across the Nordic region?
Gunnhildur Hauksdottir, Living Art Museum, Iceland & Rickard Borgström, curator, Sweden & SU-EN, Friction Festival, Sweden
 & Konsta Weber, City Art Festival Olohuone 306,4 km², Finland

17.30 – 18.00 Discussion

WED 29.9.2010

09.00 – 10.15 Text based performance and the Nordic context: what does it mean to create language-based work in ‘The North’ where languages do not have same level of internationalism as, for example, English?
Maija Hirvanen, artist, Edge of Europe project, Finland & Suvi Nurmi, artist, Fine art Academy, Finland & Johannes Blomqvist, Sverigefinska folkhögskolan, Sweden & Annette Arlander, Theatre Academy, Finland


10.30 – 11.30 What collaborative models of support and co-commissioning might best facilitate the creation and touring of contemporary Nordic performance practice?
Kamma Siegumfeldt, Kedja project, Denmark & Louise Höjer, Hybris Konstproduktion, Inpex, Sweden

11.30 – 12.00 Discussion & final words