Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival 2020

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TQAF 2020 | VIRTUAL
“?? ????? ?????; what is fear?”

Through a series of online interventions, TQAF 2020 aims to offer the opportunity for underrepresented LBGTQIA artists, writers and activists from across the world to reveal their practice to a spectating audience from 20-28 June, 2020. This year, TQAF will be showcasing selected works, performances and workshops digitally.

We welcome proposals across disciplines, such as, visual artworks, poetry and writing, workshops, performances, video and film presentations, community interventions and talks or lectures that investigate the question: what is fear? These will be presented through a curated series of social media, blog and website posts and live streamings, according to the needs of each selected project.

While climate emergencies are posing greater threats to survival; economic and political responses have been slow. International trade is expanding markets whilst capitalism continues to thrive. Balancing our finite resources with the ongoing pressure we impose on ourselves is one of the main challenges we face as a global community and through our individual queerness. What is fear? invites cultural practitioners to investigate what fear is to them on a personal and communal level.

Queerness itself seems to be an outcome of and an exercise in alternate temporalities, creative life plans, and eccentric financial strategies that stand against the structures that led us to today’s increasing conservationism and environmental crises. Being queer encapsulates the potential of a liberatory relationship with time, space and society. We aspire that the lack of topospecificity in this year’s edition of TQAF will not only help us share the work of queer artists with a wider audience, but will subsequently open new pathways for connecting and collaborating with LGBTQIA organisations across the Balkans and internationally. We are therefore inviting artists, performers, writers and academics to design proposals that can be displayed, shared and distributed online.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

- Name, contact details and artist statement (150 words maximum).
- Submission of up to 3 works (please send WeTransfer link in submission email for completed works).
- Supporting statements for each artwork or project proposal outlining the media you are working in (100 words maximum, including any guidelines that you would like us to adhere to in terms of the work’s online presentation).
- All materials should be provided in Greek or English.
- Link to your website, Instagram or other social media accounts (optional).
- We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, race, age, sexual orientation or gender identity.

* Please note that this this year’s festival will primarily take place online and will be shared on digital platforms.

Please email your submission to the following address: submissions.tqaf@gmail.com

The organising committee will review the submitted proposals, select the projects that will be presented and notify selected artists by email. Entries that do not meet the specifications will not be considered.