Tuomas Laitinen – Life Is Temporary
The performance lecture Life Is Temporary deals with thoughts that arise when looking through the ANTI FEstival's archive. During the past 25 years ANTI Festival has offered thousands of performance experiences in urban space of Kuopio and its surroundings. What is the function of these performances? What does their disappearance mean? Or… are they disappearing?
The performance lecture has been produced within The Vanishing Art Collection, a new collaborative project between the ANTI Festival, the Reality Research Center Center and Mad House Helsinki, which reimagines the ways in which Live Art is created, presented, and experienced within the context of public art. As part of the project, Laitinen is preparing a new performance piece for 2027.
Tuomas Laitinen is a live artist, researcher, and pedagogue. His artistic work focuses on questioning the role of the audience, experimenting with it, and consequently developing new forms of performance. He performed at the ANTI Festival in 2014 with his son Ilari. Laitinen’s doctoral dissertation, How Audience Bodies Form, was examined at the Theatre Academy of the University of Arts Helsinki in autumn 2025.
Photo by Eeva Anundi
