Call for proposals:
Video Screening program for PERFORMANCE 2011 Festival
Artists’ Association MUU invites artists to submit performance video works for the Video Screening program of the International Performance Art Festival PERFORMANCE 2011. The festival will take place in Turku, Finland 27.-29. May 2011. The festival is a part of the official Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture program.
PERFORMANCE 2011 festival will stage planned and impromptu performances – indoors, outdoors and on the web. During the year 2011 the event will extend from Turku to the Baltic cities of Helsinki, Hamburg and Tallinn. The defining characteristics for the Finnish and international works in the festival are optimism, unexpectedness and directness.
PERFROMANCE 2011 is being produced and organized by the national Artists’ Association MUU in cooperation with the Barker and TEHDAS theaters, the FLUXEE Club, the Regional Arts Council of South-West Finland, Ehkä-production and the Artists’ Association Arte.
Festival’s Video Screening program will provide an opportunity for artists to showcase video performance work in various locations such as galleries, theaters, private homes, day-cares, schools, sheltered homes, offices and business premises. The Video Screening program will have an emphasis on recent and short video works (max 10 min) with performative elements.
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