ANTI � Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space in Kuopio, Finland. ANTI presents live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today�s most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland�s foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes the spaces of everyday life.

In September 2015 ANTI Festival will collaborate with the Kuopio Marathon to present a unique series of cultural events created in response to the race. We invite proposals for projects that engage with one or more of the following areas:

� Duration, longevity and time; the long and short of time-based activities
� Sport and culture, sporting culture, cultural sport
� The body and endurance � expanded ideas of endurance: political, social, cultural forms of endured activity; the social agency of endurance
� The quantified self: fitness culture, technology and performance
� The race, racing and competitive frameworks
� Participation and mass events � the individual and the many
� The enthusiast and the amateur: the cultural agency of the �trained� every-person
� Topographic trajectories and spatial intervention: running/reading/using the city

In 2015 the ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will be held from 1.-6.9.2015.