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.
REGULATIONS:
1. Applicants must submit by e-mail to performanssi2011@muu.fi or by post to MUU ry / Performance 2011 Video Screening, Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki, Finland:
- Completed application form (download the form: Performance 2011)
- CV of the artist or the group (max 1 MB; txt, doc, rtf, pdf, zip, if sent by e-mail)
- Video work (formats accepted: DV, DVD or URL link of the proposed work; no video file attachments if send by e-mail!)
Note: If you wish to have your tape/disc returned, please enclose a self-addressed envelope. Please do not send master tapes/discs, as we cannot accept liability for loss or damage.
2. The deadline is 31st March 2011.
3. Selected artists will be contacted by e-mail latest 15th April 2011. The list of selected artists will be published by 30th April 2011 at www.muu.fiProject and eventos, Performance 2011.
4. Selected artists will be asked to send a DVD hardcopy of the selected work (DVD-video or video file is acceptable) by the end of April 2011.
Further information:
Producer Essi Ojanperä, performanssi2011@muu.fi, +358 (0)9 625 972
www.turku2011.fi
