Sunday, April 11, 2010

Re: POW! ACTION art festival 2010 call for artists!

POW! POW! POW! 2010 ACTION art festival wants some ACTION!

“The most radical Arts Festival I have experienced in San Francisco in many years”. Performance artist Guillermo Gomez Peña, commenting about POW!POW! 2009.

If you have a low tech body-based or time-based performance piece that is risky, outrageous, provoking and/or adventurous we are looking for YOU!…it just has to be pinche good!

POW!POW!POW!, the 3rd annual ACTION art festival in San Francisco is searching for fresh and original "cutting-edgy" action art works for 2010.

Are you willing to take more risks in your performances? Is there any performance/action art piece you always wanted to do, but couldn’t, because it didn’t fit into your funding organization’s agenda? Did you limit your artistic vision because you thought it might "offend" your PC grandmother or someone else? If so, your prayers have been answered! POW! POW! POW! 3rd annual ACTION art festival opens a free expression space for ANY kind of performance art!

About the festival:
The only festival of its type, POW! POW! POW! encourages and supports performance artists to do…whatever they want! Unlike other funded festivals, POW! POW! POW! is a grass roots open-ended festival run by artists and for artists themselves. Triple POW! believes in radical and FREE expression and experimentation with no particular aesthetic, moral, political or social limitations. Since we are not funded, there are "no strings attached."

In the spring of 2008 the first POW! mini-performance art festival was a huge success. We received press in the San Francisco Chronicle and numerous other local publications. In 2009 POW! POW! sold out every night (the audience tripled from 2008) and received press from local publications. The 2010 version promises to take the festival to a new level of national and international recognition.

Selected works will be performed at a well-known performance venue (TBA) in San Francisco, California during our 3rd Annual ACTION art festival on October14th-17th, 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/POWACTIONart
http://www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival

What we ARE looking for:
-Artists willing to speak up and talk back and who are not afraid to express themselves freely
-Low tech or no tech, original, out of the box, risky, outrageous, provoking, adventurous, creative action work based on action and the human body… your imagination is the limit. (The curatorial criteria is originality not “quality”!)

You may submit:
- Continuous installations (preferably interactive), no more than 4 hours in length
- 20 minute or less live performance pieces
- Video action art pieces

What POW!POW!POW! DOES NOT want to view:
Anything that looks like conventional theater, dance, choreography, music or media work. If this is what you make, there are already hundreds of venues and festivals you can submit your work to.

The co- founders/curators/directors/producers of the festival are:
gal*in_dog AKA Guillermo Galindo
Alyssa Lee (of group A)
Guest curator:
Guillermo Gomez Peña

For questions please contact powsf@yahoo.com www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
For the full application visit http://www.groupadance.com/POW!.htm

To apply, follow 3 easy steps below!
Online Application – found at
http://www.groupAdance.com/POW!.htm

* Don’t forget to forward this call to interested loco/loca artists! *

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POW!POW!POW! ACTION art festival
www.myspace.com/powminiperformanceartfestival
www.youtube.com/POWACTIONart
san francisco, CA
october 2010
co-founded/produced/curated by: guillermo galindo AKA gal*in_dog + alyssa lee
guest curator: guillermo gomez peña

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ok! How about a twenty minutes piece, AN UNLIMITED COMMUNICATION OF INTIMATE TRIBAL BODY, AN ADVENTURE INTO UNCOMFORTABLE JOY a participation exploration?

And /or THE CAVE OF THE EROTIC BEAST, a four hour installation?

In Freedom,
Frank Moore

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