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AUTUMN 2026
Tuomas Laitinen – Life Is Temporary
Sat, Sept. 19, 2:30 p.m.
Anti-Festival, Kuopio
"Life Is Temporary " is a lecture-performance by Tuomas Laitinen that examines the 25-year history of the ANTI Festival and the disappearance and traces of the performances created during that time. What happens to performances once they’re over—do they really disappear?
The work is part of a collaborative project between the ANTI Festival, the Reality Research Center, and Mad House Helsinki’s “Collection of Vanishing Art,” which reimagines the ways in which performance art is created, presented, and experienced in the context of public art. As part of the project, Laitinen is creating a new public-space performance piece for the year 2027.
Emil Santtu Uuttu et al. – From Photographs
Fri, Oct. 9, 7:00 p.m.
Sat, Oct. 10, 3:00 p.m.
Parvisali Stage, Helsinki
Emil Santtu Uuttu’s work*Et alin* On Photographs examines image archives, metadata, and research publications from the perspective of absences and small gestures. What is left out?
The premiere follows the research project's Picture Me: Presenting Queer Visual History first international conference, Visual History Now, held at the Tampere University in October 2026.
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