Urban Body in Action

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First International Festival Edition of Minimum Urban Video Performances

The International Festival of Urban Minimum Video Performances “Urban Body in Action”, is launched in its first edition through an (international) open call in order to collect a set of video works-understanding these in its broadest definition: register of actions, interventions or video performances – that reflect minimal actions carried out in the urban space.

It is short videos (maximum 2 ‘), recorded with phones, cameras … where a “minimal performance” that took place in the urban space through performative minimal gestures in everyday life. The concept of “minimal” action is not only for its duration (which may even be greater if an extract of a repetitive action), but also for its ambivalent qualitative significance (minimum-maximum, relevant-irrelevant, noticed-unnoticed, unusual or banal) that involve other ways of relating to citizenship and occasional urban environment (transit spaces, furniture and real estate) in which we live and we share every day like shooting passers-by. These urban minimum actions can be carried out individually or in groups.

Simple or more elaborate videos that show “urban bodies in action”, to be part of a festival of nomadic spirit that aims to:

• The creation of a virtual meeting space where to visualize different ways of doing and understanding performance in the city: the presence in the streets through minimal artistic action.
• Encourage the experimentation of performance in the urban space as a resignification of these spaces and their citizen relationship.
• Establish interuniversity links at the international level, as a space for the exchange of experiences and the street as a space for action.
• Extend and disseminate the projection of the proposals in different national and international spaces throughout the year, both in university areas and in art spaces and alternative centers.
• Generate a digital platform (web page) of diffusion that gathers all the selected proposals and a publication of a book-DVD, for its archive in university libraries and artistic spaces.

The International Festival of Urban Minimum Performances Video “Urban Body in Action”, is a nomadic spirit and is conceived as a portable digital device that will be screened in university halls and art spaces from different countries (Portugal, Netherlands, France, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Canada and Spain) through collaborating university professors and art gallery managers. As a final memory of this festival, a DVD-Book will be made for authors, collaborating institutions and university libraries.

This Festival is a project designed and coordinated by Elia Torrecilla and Miguel Molina and hasthe support and funding of the research group Intermediate Creations Laboratory (Departmentof Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Valencia), PAC (Platform of Activities Cultural of thePolytechnic University of Valencia) and Joventut (Council of Valencia – Spain).