Open Call For Video Art
Videoholica 2012
International Video Art Festival 5th Edition
25–30 July 2012, Varna, Bulgaria
Deadline: June 30th 2012

Videoholica Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria is accepting now video art submissions for its 5th anniversary edition.

The 5th Videoholica is planned to take place between 25th and 30th July 2012 in Varna within the framework of the International Biennial for Visual Arts AUGUST IN ART.

The 5th Videoholica will animate again with evening video art projections the Varna public and outdoor spaces, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina Open-Air Stage in the Varna Sea Garden, Music Café ‘LOOK’, the Roman Baths, Cultural House ‘Harmony’ yard and others. Along with the evening video art screenings, VIDEOHOLICA 2012 will introduce to the Varna public established local and international video art partners’ activities and honored video artists’ talks, in parallel with discussions and exhibitions to take place in gallery, museum and alternative spaces in Varna, presenting the video art on a global scale.

Surplus/Lack
Call For Entries
Deadline: May 15, 2012

Surplus/Lack is an experimental film-video exhibition, curated by Peter Freund and Jaimie Baron

“The image as such is already a defense against its own beyond.”

We are seeking short experimental films and video art (under 15 min) that engage the inescapable impossibility of representation. We welcome works that explore loss, absence, surplus, and lack in the very nature of the image and its endeavor to capture the real, the ethical, the beautiful, the missing, the disappeared, the desired and so forth. Works may present or combine narrative and documentary elements, however should do so through an overarching experimental strategy.

Completion date for submitted work should be 2010 or later.

There is No Entry Fee for submissions.

Sequence is an artist-run publication devoted to contemporary film and video art, published by no.w.here (London), edited by Simon Payne. It aims to promote and disseminate ideas and debates concerning contemporary artists? film and video - primarily from the perspective of its practitioners - in the form of artists? statements, project proposals, interviews, manifestoes and contextual essays.

Proposals for Sequence (no.3) are eagerly sought. In the first instance please send brief proposals (300 words) and images (if appropriate) by the 9th of March to SequencePublication@gmail.com for consideration.

Guidelines: Contextual essays, interviews etc. - addressing contemporary film and video art - should be no longer than 4000 words. Artists? pages are usually one or two (A4) pages. Finished articles will need to be submitted by mid June. Sequence (no.3) will be published in Autumn 2012.

The first two issues of Sequence include articles by and contributions from: Rob Mullender, Simon Payne, Sandra Schäfer, Helga Fanderl, Peter Gidal, Takahiko Iimura, Adam Kossoff, Sarah Pucill and Margherita Sprio, William Raban, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Maxa Zoller, A.L. Rees, Lis Rhodes, Cathy Rogers, Duncan White, Ken Jacobs, Erica Scourti, Caroline Bergvall, Annabel Nicolson, Louis Henderson, Bob Cobbing, Dieter Meier, Kim Knowles, Pip Chodorov, Samantha Rebello, Jeff Keen, Nicky Hamlyn, Angela Allen, Shama Khanna, Lucy Parker, Andrew Vallance and Luke Aspell.