The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network
present the 8^th International Video Poetry Festival 2019

at Free Self Organised Theatre Embros Riga Pallamidi 2 Psirri

DEADLINE 20 November 2019 – Athens / Greece

The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the 2019 International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. The annual festival will be held at the free, self-organized theatre EMBROS this winter, with the precise dates yet to be determined. Approximately 1200 people attended the festival last year.

The 8th International Video Poetry Festival will run for two days in two different zones. The first day will be the Video Poetry Show Room, a unique zone that will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second day will be the Live Improvisation Zone with multimedia poetry readings, concerts with experimental music, and performances.

We are inviting artists – poets, video artists, directors, producers – who want to visit the festival to present their art project at the Theatre. We can provide accommodation for three days (one day before the festival, during the festival and one day afterward).

The International Video Poetry Festival 2019 attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.

It is very important to note that this festival is a part of the counter-culture activities of Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be a non-sponsored, free-entrance, non-commercial and nonprofit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment) from the income of the bar at the festival. All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate on a volunteer basis.

The Institute [for Experimental Arts] invites the artists and creators of video poems to participate from their side in our effort to cover the expenses of the festival without private or state sponsorship. For this reason, we propose to the artists the suggested donation of 5 euros for the submission of their video poems.

Void Network began organizing multimedia poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multimedia poetry nights and video poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of the metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry, and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists and create high-quality, self-organized exhibition areas and showrooms. We work with professional technicians, and we offer meeting points and fields of expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream culture.

HOW TO SUBMIT

1. Click here to download and complete the application form
2. Your participation is FREE. Please, if you can, add the suggested donation of 5 Euro (or more) to the following bank account:
   National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA
3. Please, send the submission material via email as following:
   +++ via email:
   your video poems in mp4 or mov file, definition(720 x 576, 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080)
   the submission form and photos in .jpg file
   (all these in a single wetransfer file)
   Email: theinstitutecontact [at] gmail.com
   *please replace [at] with @ symbol to send email
   You can use wetransfer.com or any other FREE SERVICE to send us big files.
4. It is very important to name your files (videos and still images, photos) as it is shown below:
   Title of video poem
   Artist’s name
   Country
5. Be careful, you have to send only one email with the application form, the link to download, the video poems or the video poems archives, the still images of the video poems and any website of your art work projects
6. We recommend you add English or Greek subtitles to your video poems even if the spoken language is in English as it will be easier for people outside the English speaking world to understand it.

We recommend you send your video poems over the internet. But if you prefer, you can also mail your DVD file to the following address:
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL
TASOS SAGRIS
159 KREONTOS
SEPOLIA ATHENS
GREECE 10443
Please post it no later than November 20, 2019 (date of postmark) to the International Film Poetry Festival, Athens.
+ the Institute [for Experimental Arts] will inform you about your participation in late November 2019.

Documentation of previous events

Review of the 7th International Video Poetry Festival by Michael Mantas, Film Director

Photos of previous poetry nights organized by Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]:
International Poetry Festival London Financial Consequences Festival- 9/2/2019 at LSE- Reviews & Photos
5th International Video Poetry Festival
SPEAK NO EVIL / poetry event in WEN. 21/10/2015 Thessaloniki
More photos from Void Network art, events and actions

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Sissy Doutsiou

Sissy Doutsiou is an international multidisciplinary artist residing in Athens, Greece. Sissy is an actress, spoken word artist, curator, educator, artivist and host. She has hosted and produced numerous intergenerational poetry, spoken word events as well as performed at festivals; including 1st Biennale in Athens, Sardam Literature Festival in Cyprus, Weimar Poetry Award and Vienna Art and Poetry Video Festival. She co-founded and curated the annually International Video Poetry Festival since 2011 and the International Experimental Film Festival since 2023. Sissy was a featured artist for 2019 in Financial Consequences: an International Poetry Festival in London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Sissy will be releasing her first LP, “Insult of Public Modesty” in the Fall of 2025. Sissy’s work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma utilizing art as the medium.

www.sissydoutsiou.com/

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