CALL FOR ARTISTS
VENICE EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO AND PERFORMING ART FESTIVAL 2023
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello – Venice, Italy | May 19, 2023
Deadline: April 30, 2023

ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the open call for VENICE EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO AND PERFORMING ART FESTIVAL 2023, a one-night event of video and performance art, that will be held in Venice at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello (click here to learn more on this venue), on May 19, 2023, during the same period of the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

We invite performers, dancers, video makers and filmmakers to be inspired by the magical power of Venice and to analyze the hidden parts of our identities, through an immersive experience inside the fascinating universe of the complex labyrinths of our consciousness.

This year on May 19, 2023, we are glad to host Hybrid Futures – Artificial Intelligence and Architecture, a panel dedicated to artificial intelligence. Tim Fu, Architectural Designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, Lev Libeskind, Creative Director at Libeskind Studio Design and Luca Curci, Founder of Luca Curci Architects, together with other panellists and guests, will provide a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of technology and human identity, offering deep insights into how AI is shaping the awareness of self and society and into the ethical, cultural, and philosophical implications of it. By examining these complex and multifaceted issues, the panel will provide a better understanding of the potential of AI, encouraging reflections and dialogues around the role of technology in shaping our shared future.

VENICE EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO AND PERFORMING ART FESTIVAL 2023 is focused on the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary times. People, backgrounds, societies, progress, cities and all their inputs create hybrid identities, modifying each other and being mixed in prospect to shape a better world.

The human body is a changing system that connects us with other bodies and spaces to perceive the surrounding reality: a strong communication system with its own language and infinite ways of expression.

After many years of research and exhibitions about the evolution of the idea of identity, we ask artists to share their personal tales through videos and performances, to create a link between their personal experience and the audience, to tell us which are the stories and reasons beneath their works.

Deadline for applications is April 30, 2023 (11.59 PM your local time)

ITSLIQUID Group has produced until today more than 250 exhibitions worldwide and many impressive art and architecture festivals during Venice Biennale. Among the last great shows, SURFACES Festival, ANIMA MUNDI ART FAIR, BORDERS Art Fair 2021, three editions of BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, eleven editions of CONTEMPORARY VENICE, five editions of ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR and 16th editions of VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, presenting more than 5000 talented artists, from the emerging to the iconic.

Ever since 2001, ITSLIQUID Group has presented a high-quality selection of collective and solo shows in our locations, creating a unique opportunity to exchange new ideas, and increase and develop the art market and the dialogue between collectors, art critics, journalists and art lovers. Making contemporary art accessible to all.

We work in collaboration with a talented network of publishers, dealers, curators and arts professionals, providing artists with customized services and opportunities to have their works exhibited, published and represented through various platforms.

Artists interested in taking part in our shows are free to be sponsored and supported by institutions, organizations, governments and their representatives; the logos of their sponsors will be included in all the communication (digital and print) of the events.

Deadline for applications is April 30, 2023 (11.59 PM your local time)

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ABOUT US

ITSLIQUID is a web-based information platform, founded in 2001 by Luca Curci, dedicated to the worldwide distribution of information about calls for entries, exhibitions and events at some of the world’s leading art galleries, museums and foundations selected. ITSLIQUID has already built a readership of more than 250.000 qualified subscribers. Among them architects, designers, artists, collectors, art critics, curators, dealers, and other personalities of the International art, architecture and design world. It provides advertising services, press office services for events and projects, articles and specials published on the website, and media partnership services.

During the last 20 years, ITSLIQUID Group has become a cultural hub between creatives, exhibition spaces and art lovers. Among our international partners, Art Now Fair, Art Vancouver, Design Tokyo, INDEX Qatar, INDEX Saudi, The Big 5 Construct Dubai, The Big 5 Construct Qatar, Photo LA Los Angeles and international magazines like Art Style. ITSLIQUID Group supports some of the most important no-profit organizations, like UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, SSCS – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, One Tree Planted, The Ocean CleanUp and Plastic Oceans, with the goal to increase public awareness about environmental issues. Click here to find out more.

ITSLIQUID GROUP includes a section dedicated to the organization of international art events, managing exhibitions of painting, photography, video art, installation and performance; it organizes solo and collective shows, art residencies and international contests. Its object is to use new technologies to globalize the language of art, and to connect artists working in every part of the world.

ITSLIQUID Group manages a variety of art spaces all over the world; among them THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space in the heart of San Marco Square in Venice and different historical buildings, THE LINE Contemporary Art Space in London city centre and other different partners worldwide. Since its beginning, the group has organized more than 250 events all around the world, involving more than 5.000 artists, in more than 60 international venues in Italy, the USA, Canada, the UK, Spain, France, etc. Most of the last events have been realized in museums (CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in Spain, NCCA – National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, etc.), galleries and private foundations.

ITSLIQUID is based on fluidity, motion, connection and accessibility. Making things easy to do. Welcome.

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OUR LOCATION

Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello is one of the most known palaces of the Renaissance in Venice. It is a historical building dating back to the 16th century, and it has been owned by several noble Venetian families, as demonstrated by the frescoed ceilings, the artistic stuccos and the fine furniture that enriches its rooms. The Palace welcomes visitors with its beautiful private garden on the ground floor, and then it gathers the guests in its large first-floor salons, in which past and present dialogue together. The restored Old Masters’ frescoes and the contemporary art masterpieces that are periodically shown in the exhibitions hosted here, make Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello the perfect location for the balance between old and new, between ancient environment and contemporary art, architecture and design.

Today the building is managed by ACIT Venice – the Italian-German Cultural Association – which is considered one of the most important intercultural associations in Europe. Thanks to the ACIT unceasing cultural activity, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello has nowadays frequent collaborations with the Goethe Institute and with other local and international institutions, maintaining its ancient reputation. Because of these relations, it presents a huge program of memorable art exhibitions, conferences, congresses and concerts. Among the last institutional exhibitions, is its participation in the 58th Venice Biennale with the Guatemala pavilion, the Dominican Republic pavilion and the Grenada pavilion. ITSLIQUID Group already had the pleasure to hold some festivals and exhibitions in Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, such as MORPHOS Festival and the FUTURE IDENTITIES Festival, both in 2014.

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SOME OF OUR LAST EXHIBITIONS

Antonina Konopelska, Poland
“ITSLIQUID group creates such opportunities. With the program of frequent open calls for many international events, Itsliquid organizes it helps artists from all over the world to exhibit their works, connect, and meet the audience, fellow artists, critics, curators, and journalists. Thanks to my participation in London Contemporary 5 I could do all that and got already involved in some new projects with creative people I met during the event. The online platform by ITSLIQUID is a networking tool as well, it also provides a lot of art world information and promotes artists worldwide.”

Click here for the full interview.

Abi Polinsky, USA
“I think the ITSLIQUID platform is a wonderful opportunity for artists to show their work and gain powerful exposure. I think ITSLIQUID partnerships with amazing and historic venues around Europe are an incredible and unique way to present this art as well.”

Click here for the full interview.