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MIRfestival: Performance/Live Media/Image |
mir2010 / Athens, September 9-18, 2010
About • 18, Miaouli st., Monastiraki
Qbox Gallery • 10, Armodiou st., Monastiraki
Exile room • 2, Athinas st.,3rd floor, Monastiraki
art.act.area • 12, Athinas st., 6th floor, Monastiraki
Chora Theatre • 20, Amorgou st., Kypseli
MIRfestival is a satellite, a system in orbit, parallel to other systems, like the Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station it shares its name with. Passing by artists, creators of ephemeral and unique works, stop on MIR for a while to emit their signal before they continue their trip in time and space. MIRfestival is situated on the cutting edge of the new creation, on the provocation of the unexplored, on the violence of birth, on the acuteness of claim.
MIRfestival is happening in the city, securing a breathing space for the artistic creation.
A space where people do have an identity, but what they do does not bear a label. Where no one tries to persuade the others that what they do is “this” or “the other”, because what is more important is the fact that they create and because they have something urgent to transmit. MIRfestival is happening where the experiment takes place, where the arts meet, where encounters happen, where thought on reality is being produced.
The city is the system in which MIR operates.
The planet is its natural environment (in Russian MIR means “world” and “peace”).
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.
2010 mission to MIRfestival orbital station takes off on September 10, 2010.
The mission crew will be artists who wish to explore new horizons proposing unique
and adventurous projects on performance/ live media/ image.
If you wish to take part in the mission, press MIR instructions and follow the subMIRssion instructions.
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 artistic projects which will be included in its programme, it is also 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!
http://www.mirfestival.gr/en/
