Open Call: Miami Performance Festival
The Miami Performance International Festival is held in a hybrid format, combining in-person and online film screenings and events. The in-person components of the festival will take place at in Miami Beach, FL and at Edge Zones Art Space, Miami, FL.
The online components will be hosted through Edge Zones virtual YouTube and Facebook platforms, and archived in our Vimeo Channel with most screenings accessible globally. This year we will consider the impacts of social tension and unrest, reflecting on the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, war and peace within Western countries, and inequality and prejudice in all levels of society and politics. These situations require a new perspective on global earthly politics, which also implies our policies for performances and festivals.
Building on its reputation as the most important performance festival in South Florida, the festival seeks to has further its efforts to broaden public understanding and access to art across Miami. The festival opens with a one-day virtually streaming program consisting of performance videos and video works. It will culminate with two days of in-person live performances, curated with local Miami, national and international artists at Miami Beach, FL, and at Edge Zones Art Center. This festival puts artists at all career stages in critical dialogue with one another and with audiences. Each year, an audience from Miami and the broader US gather to enjoy the varied ways that M/P artists represent and montage their social realities. In this multidimensional, multichannel communication its aim is to turn receivers into active transmitters and to support submissions of performance from all over the world. The festival will become an echo chamber, a resonating space of symbiotic forms of communication—a response to the symbiotic planet. The recognition that life on Earth arises and endures through the symbiosis of all life forms demanding new modes of communication.
Through a hybrid online and in-person program of exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, talks, and community events, this 3-day festival invites artists and audiences to come together in celebration all the potentials of performance.
We look forward to reviewing your submissions.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to us via our Contact Us page. We are happy to answer any further questions you may have.