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[ITS LIQUID] Call for Submissions: Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival - Deadline: June 10, 2015



.art news June 08, 2015

Call for Submissions: Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice: June 17-27, 2015 Deadline: June 10, 2015 It's LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo and Ca' Zanardi, is selecting all interesting experimental films, video-art works and art performances to include in the next 2015 exhibition: Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival, international festival of experimental cinema, video art and performance art, that will be hosted in Venice, at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi from the 17th to the 27th of June 2015. It will be the first event of a cycle of 3 appointments organized in June, July and August 2015. FREE SUBMISSION and PARTICIPATION for PERFORMANCE ART! The event is organized and curated by Luca Curci (director of It's LIQUID and International ArtExpo) and Andrea Chinellato (director of Ca' Zanardi and Venice Art House). The festival's program will include video art screenings, movies' projections, live performances and meetings with artists involved. The festival is focused on the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time. People, backgrounds, societies, progress, cities and all their inputs create hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world. The Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival aims to conduct a research and to offer to artists and audience a complete experience about the body. Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival is part of SELF festival, organized in Venice at Palazzo Ca' Zanardi and Venice Art House, from the opening day of Venice Art Biennale (May 9, 2015), with a rich program of different events until November 2015. More: www.itsliquid.com/self/ To take part in the selection, send your works' submissions with a CV/biography, some still images, links of your video/films/performances to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to: It's LIQUID Group c/o Luca Curci Architects Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari, Italy Deadline for applications is June 10, 2015 (11.59 PM of your local time). The number of works you can submit is unlimited. The participation in the festival requires an entry fee only for selected art videos and films. Participation is open to: artists, photographers, video makers, performers, architects and designers, associate groups and studios. For more information or to take part in the selection, send an e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com Palazzo Ca' Zanardi (Cannaregio 4132, Venice) is a residential palace dating back to the 16th century which, over the centuries, has been added on to by various noble Venetian families and is one of the most evocative and beautiful palaces in the city of Venice. Sumptuous and possessing particular charm, Ca' Zanardi is located in a most peaceful setting and has its own delightful private garden as well as a magnificent terrace full of sun and colour. Ca' Zanardi is located close to the Ca' D'Oro, the splendid 15th century gothic palace along the Grand Canal. It is easily reachable by foot, after a two minute walk from the Ca' D'Oro water bus stop, or by boat using the palazzo's private pier positioned along the fetching Santa Caterina canal. The refined elegance of the palazzo's halls and common areas and the delicacy of its original 16th century furnishings create a fascinating setting. Starting from 2001, Luca Curci with International ArtExpo and It's LIQUID Group, have curated and organized more than 80 contemporary art events, with the participation of about 2.500 international artists from all-over the world (UK, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, Portugal, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Poland, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Israel, UAE, Russia, Thailand, etc.) with an average of 45 artworks exhibited in each show (with a maximum of 108 artists involved in the great MORPHOS festival held in Venice during the Architecture Biennale 2014). The organization has international partnerships with art venues in Italy, Turkey, USA, Spain, Argentina, UK, Middle East, etc., and collaborates with museums, galleries and institutions such as MuMo – Museum Montanelli in Prague, Laura Haber Gallery in Buenos Aires, MIXER gallery in Istanbul and MECA art center in Almeria. For more information or to take part in the selection, send an e-mail to lucacurci@lucacurci.com It's LIQUID Group c/o Luca Curci Architects Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari (Italy) +39.0805234018 +39.3387574098 lucacurci@lucacurci.com www.itsliquid.com This e-mail is sent by It's LIQUID Group. It is confidential and protected by law. Any un-authorized use or distribution of information here contained is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, notify the sender immediately. This e-mail address is strictly of use and property of the author. To unsubscribe click here and send a blank email.