At the ANTI Festival in Kuopio Finland at the moment. The highlights so far for me have been Stephen Hodge's Artists Statement at the Seminar yesterday morning, introducing the work of Wrights and Sites; and taking part in Tim Knowles' extraordinary inventive piece Live Windwalks. For this last work, a group of us set off from the centre of the Market Square, guided by wind veins ingeniously fixed with helmets on our heads. We were then pushed and blown around the city like urban flotsam and jetsam - finding ourselves in strange eddies and cross-currents - endlessly circling and bumping in to each other, sometimes holding up the traffic at cross roads, as we followed our contrary wind-directed patterns. Thinking in terms of the Practitioner Study, the subject of this journal, this is one of the ways the contemporary practitoners practices - taking part in Festivals of this kind - enlivening a city (out-of-season), and providing an unusual probing kind of entertainment.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
At the ANTI Festival in Kuopio Finland at the moment. The highlights so far for me have been Stephen Hodge's Artists Statement at the Seminar yesterday morning, introducing the work of Wrights and Sites; and taking part in Tim Knowles' extraordinary inventive piece Live Windwalks. For this last work, a group of us set off from the centre of the Market Square, guided by wind veins ingeniously fixed with helmets on our heads. We were then pushed and blown around the city like urban flotsam and jetsam - finding ourselves in strange eddies and cross-currents - endlessly circling and bumping in to each other, sometimes holding up the traffic at cross roads, as we followed our contrary wind-directed patterns. Thinking in terms of the Practitioner Study, the subject of this journal, this is one of the ways the contemporary practitoners practices - taking part in Festivals of this kind - enlivening a city (out-of-season), and providing an unusual probing kind of entertainment.
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