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Lacina 6 - 88000 Mostar –
Bosna i Hercegovina.
www.mifoc.org - mifoc@mifoc.org - Tel/Fax ++387 36 552
039/552 185
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7th Edition of Mostar Intercultural Festival
Call
for Applications
Date of festival : July 12 – July
22, 2003
Departure from Toulouse with convoy : July
5th (this date may change)
Return in Toulouse : 25th (this date may
change)
MIFOC (Mostar Intercultural Festival Organizing Committee) is a non-partisan,
non-profit, non-government, volunteer federation of associations working on
creations, development and manifestation of cultural, social and economic
alternatives, as well as providing space and support to all those who wish to
creatively express themselves and take part in changes on local and wider
level, under the idea “another world is possible.”
MIFOC is Alternativni
Institut, Skart Art, Mladi Most (Mostar, BiH),
RAI (Barcelona, Spa),
Drugi Most (Grenoble, Fra),
Guernica ADPE (Toulouse, Fra),
CRAMS (Monticello, Ita)
and many informal groups
and individuals.
More information on MIFOC, its projects and
initiatives at
www.mifoc.org
Intro
MIF is a multi-media festival of performances,
exhibitions, happenings, music, sound and visual installations, video and
cinema, urban interventions,
animation, workshops, solidarity and engagement with the aim of supporting
the infiltration of cultural, artistic and socially engaged activities in the
urban life and creating the ground for meetings of young artists and activists.
Its aims are both artistic performances
and exchanges. Exchange means to create, to provide, to support, to discover
and to promote the common aims and convictions. Consequently the festival is from and to everyone; all
the people who will decide to give time, tools, work and part of their lives to
the idea of the MIF.
We don’t provide the performance space to artists
only, but to engaged art also.
MIF presents alternative ways of art and expression
and gives an opportunity to local young artists and activists to express their
ideas and a different vision of the world....
In the past six years, more than 600 artists, from ten
European countries, took part in this festival.
Mostar Intercultural Festival 2003
7th edition of MIF will present the need for creative space in Mostar (see
after MIF 2003 concept for further information).
The festival will have its central location in Santiceva street (former division line), and a task
to use the creative potential to intervene in and transform the destroyed and
neglected part of town turning
it into a creative and artistic laboratory. Locating
the festival in this place symbolically represents the civic and cultural
reconstruction of the city.
Application Criteria
We invite artists and activists to apply with their ideas and projects in
accordance with the theme «space» (lack of space / need for space).
·
Exhibitions
and happenings
Exhibitions and happenings sector has the wish to
gather artists from different fields to exchange skills and experiences, in order to create a common space. We
invite you on a residence, to intervene actively and collectively in our two “zones”:
No-weapon zone: We
are looking for artists and activists who want to state a strong sign of
non-violence and anti-militarism, to find creative solutions for peaceful
communication and exchange.
Sexual identity/ies- zone: We are particularly looking for artists working in
the field of gender issues. Our goal is to question role models based on
biological genders, to cross borders which are not given by nature but made by
us and to stress the fact that we are first of all human beings and not only
“men” or “women”.
Apart from this also exhibitions and happenings, such
as pictures, installations, site-specific projects, multimedia performances, …
working on different topics related to the aims of the Mostar Intercultural
Festival are welcome!
If you need more information, feel free to contact us:
izlozbemif@no-log.org !
·
Theater and street spectacles
Performing arts and dance, with the accent on, but not
exclusively, use of space, importance of space, security of the space and
identification with it.
All sorts of street spectacles (juggling, circus,
marching bands etc.) that can provide direct link with the audience and bring
the art to the streets.
We are also searching for performing artists working
in the field of gender issues and human relations.
·
Music
Concerts, free sessions, sound installations and
DJ-ing, of all music styles welcome.
We are also looking for musicians ready to experiment
and create together with other artists during the festival as well as give
music support to street spectacles, video, exhibitions and happenings and urban
interventions.
·
Video and cinema
The cinema and video sector aim to propose a mix of
different approaches of film production. To support this aim, the cinema sector
presents recent long length international features in 35mm in open-air
screenings, as a dream and emotion provider for any generations. The selection
of these movies will be done by mifoc.
In the same time, the video sector is a collective
space of expression for every artists who wish to present their works by the
video media, so presentation and/or retrospectives of short films
(animation, experimental, documentary, activists movies, etc…) in video
(VHS, DV or CD only) for indoor and/or outdoor screenings. We invite artists to
join for the video nights, which are dedicated only to video works, (pictures
and sound together as a complete art) or for various happenings, which are
connecting exhibitions concerts and performances, (pictures being a support and
a link with concrete movement of performers, live music, picture installation,
civil society zones, etc.)
·
Workshops
Active, productive, constructive and educational
workshops, using recycled, natural or other materials with the aim to share and
teach skills, create collective exhibitions and creatively transform the
central location and the street.
·
Actions and interventions
We invite everyone to create together urban interventions
daily during the festival, manifest the cultural and civic action and create
the visual image of the festival. In this aim we will organize thematic street
actions, media presentations and round tables.
Selection
A full application should contain:
-
presentation
materials (CDs, pictures, video or any materials you have that can show us
about your work)
-
filled out
application form with complete and correct information
-
technical sheet
(where possible=
Please send your e-application to mifoc@mifoc.org,
and all presentation materials (photos, CDs, video tapes...) to: MIFOC U.G.,
Lacina 6, 88 000 Mostar, Bosna i Hercegovina
Application deadline: April 1st, 2003
You will be notified of the selection on April 15th, 2003
The selection criteria are based on artistic value,
human engagement, technical and material needs.
We also put advantage on artists that can
stay all along the festival and on projects which enable collaboration with
artists and people.
Since the festival is of non-commercial character, and
access to all events are free of charge, we expect the volunteer approach of
artists and activists.
The organization will take care of your travel costs (bus or car only), provide a catering service during the festival and contribute to materials for work and accommodation at the local schools.