MIRfestival is an international contemporary art festival, on the experiment at the crossroads of performing arts and visual new media. Simply put, MIR is a festival bringing together the scene and the image (where image represents all the research on the contemporary visual expression and respectively scene all the research on the human body and performance in every sense).
The festival includes performances, projections, video installations, experimental live media events, concerts, exhibitions, interventions in the city will take place. Guest artists and collectives from Greece and abroad will be proposing a wide range of ideas, of interesting and weird artistic projects worth seeing and perhaps participating into.
MIRfestival is a non-profit and non-commercial festival. There is no entry fee for the artists
and no entrance fee for the spectators to the screenings, but there might be an entrance fee
for the live media performances.
There is no competition department and there are no prizes. However, during the last day of
the festival, at the Best of! procedure, spectators vote for their favourite films and ask to see
them once more (during the last 90 minutes of the programme). The results will be posted at
our site.
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, it is searching for projects and actions intervening to Athens squares, under the general 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!
In order to submit your projects, please follow these instructions:
1. Read carefully the document Instructions for participation and festival regulations
2. Download the correct entry form and fill it in
3. Submit your form by e-mail
4. Print it and post it to our mailing address together with a DVD containing your performance recorded, or the visual part of your project, or your film and a CD with stills or photos of 300 dpi resolution or more.
After the selection procedure, some of your projects will be part of the programme of
MIRfestival 2010.
