MIRFESTIVAL Athens 2010

Ida Hajdari of Fox&Squirrel received an email a few days ago about this upcoming festival in Athens. She has decided to share it with all of you out there. The festival is a great opportunity you for those interested in performance, sound and light installations, live media and image. Unfortunately the deadline for applications is approaching soon but come on be inspired and submit your proposals!

Please let Ida know your progress.

Here goes:

"The mission crew will be artists who wish to explore new horizons proposing unique and adventurous projects on performance/ live media/ image.

MIRfestival welcomes experimental and adventurous creation at the meeting point of arts: performing arts / live media / image. It enables meeting between artists of different provenance and between artists and the audience. It is a place where artists share their vision of the world and of the reality with audiences ready to make a shift, to question their views, to be propelled to new horizons and to see new realities emerge.

MIRfestival presents innovative, experimental artistic projects.

You are welcome to submit:

* performance and small scale dance or theatre performances, researching on the co-existence of the performer’s presence, image and media

* live media projects, electronica and image projects

* urban projects and interventions in the city

* installations, video-installations, or other visual arts projects, including interactive ones

* experimental film and video in which the emphasis is not on verbal narration, but on image, movement and the language of the camera.

MIRfestival is not thematic. However, for its 2010 edition, apart from the other projects to be presented in the frame of the festival, it is searching for projects and actions intervening to Athens squares, under the title HERE/ NOW.

Your proposals on this subject can be actions of different types (performance, actions, happenings, lighting or sound interventions, or other). We are looking forward to receiving your proposals!"

After the selection procedure, some of your projects will be part of the programme of MIRfestival 2010.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 26, 2010

For more information regarding MIRFESTIVAL 2010 check out their website here

We leave you with some images from the previous festival. For more images please click through here

Image 1: copyright: arsondpi.gr

Image 2: copyright: arsondpi.gr

All images used were kindly provided by MIRFESTIVAL website