IV Edition_International Festival of Minimal Urban Performances (polarized) in Video

"URBAN BODY IN EXTREME ACTION”

 

From its beginnings, the practice of performance has been linked to the extreme, since its main objective is to provoke, to make people reflect and to transgress the limits (corporal, physical, political, social, artistic...): the DADA movement sowed the seeds of non-art and the absurdity of the world war; Fluxus opted for an art that must be lived as a game in which life is at risk.

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Now we find ourselves in a historical moment, characterized by polarizations and contradictions, since, as in a battery, the positive and negative poles are needed for the energy to flow and not short-circuit. The overabundance of information and communication caused in the digital age has caused extreme opinions to proliferate. This situation is amplified in social networks, which are a loudspeaker for the polarization of opinions, where dialogue and commitment seem to have given way to confrontation and social inequalities.

 

Faced with extreme contexts such as the climate crisis, movements emerge at the other extreme: that of denial. On the other side of technological hyperconnectivity, there is loneliness and isolation. On one side, the over-exposure and over-labeling of the “I”; on the other side, identity crises. On one extreme, overproduction and over-stimulation; on the other, the paralysis produced by anxiety and depression.

 

In this context, we seek actions that not only reflect the time we live in, but that go beyond it. That cross the limits (our own and others), that do a pirouette that flies over the extremes, that cross borders (internal and external), that discover horizons not thought of, possible or impossible, implausible, absurd, incoherent, eccentric, maladaptive.

 

Deadline for submission of proposals: November 20, 2024

 

THIS FESTIVAL IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR EXTREME ACTIONS

 

Instructions for participation

 

1. Artists or non-artists from any discipline or without one may participate with an audiovisual piece that captures a performance/action that mediates between the extremes. The language of the video can range from a simple urbanbodyinaction@gmail.com documentary to the creation of a video performance.

 

2. The maximum duration of the videos is 1 minute. If there is a spoken part, it must be subtitled in English.

 

3. The works will be sent in mp4 format to the following email address: urbanbodyinaction@gmail.com

 

4. Along with the email, a text document must be attached with the following information (they must appear -at least- in Spanish and English):

 

> Title:

> Duration:

> Year:

> Place of the action (City, Country):

> Name of the artist or collective:

> Postal address, telephone number, email and website/social networks:

> Statement of the artist (maximum 50 words):

> Brief description of the video (maximum 50 words):

> Descriptive image of the action in .jpg for dissemination on the website, social networks and catalogue.

 

5. The deadline for receipt will be until November 20, 2024, inclusive.

 

6. Selected participants will be informed by email before January 30, 2025.

 

7. A joint video compilation will be made with the selected videos to be exhibited and a digital publication.

 

8. The selected videos will be disseminated in different exhibition spaces, screening rooms internationally, and digital dissemination through networks, planned from March 2025.

 

9. The selected artists or non-artists will become part of the database of the festival website, so they must authorize the use of their works for dissemination and promotion purposes in print or digital media, without profit motive.

 

10. Participation in this festival implies full acceptance of its rules.

 

Send us your proposal(s) until November 20, 2024

to urbanbodyinaction@gmail.com