Open Call for Participation in the Live Performances of the 7th International Forum of Performance Art (IFPA)
September 25 – 28, 2025 / Drama, Greece
Theme: Homoio-topias / “return to the chōra”
“In Plato’s Timaeus, ‘chora’ is an intermediate essence – a transformative space where Ideas take on physical form. A site of transition, becoming, and consciousness. A political and ontological act of return. This year’s theme draws inspiration from this Platonic notion of ‘chora’ as a space of embodied thought and creative emergence. The ‘homoio-topias’ are formed through the intersections of various heterotopias—local or digital, real or imaginary. Within them, performance becomes a living body of meaning, reinvention, and re-inhabitation.” — Ioannis Mitrou, Artistic Director of IFPA
As part of this year’s edition, the International Forum of Performance Art (IFPA) invites artists and collectives from Greece and abroad to submit proposals for live performances.
Submitted works are expected to engage creatively with the central theme: “Homoio-topias / return to chora”, reflecting on issues of transition, identity, language, the body, memory, ritual, and the (re)inhabitation of space—whether physical or immaterial. We welcome experimental, interdisciplinary, and hybrid formats that explore the boundaries of performance and propose new performative languages.
Guidelines for Submission:
- The proposed performance must not exceed 45 minutes
- Submissions must include the following:
- Title and a short description of the performance (up to 300 words)
- Artist biography (up to 200 words)
- A brief portfolio or link to previous work
- Proposals will be evaluated by the Artistic Director of IFPA.
Deadline for submissions: June 15th, 2025
Fill in your application on this form: https://forms.gle/iUrXaREH4zntWnnb6
You can read the analytical theme of the 7th IFPA Here
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Terms and Conditions
* The submission of a proposal does not guarantee its inclusion in the program of the International Forum of Performance Art.
* The IFPA Artistic Directorate is not obliged to justify the reasoning of its choices regarding the rejected proposals.
* The information submitted is binding.
The IFPA acts in complete confidentiality regarding the personal data of the interested parties, as they are collected through the applications-files of artistic proposals that are sent to it. The rights of artistic proposals belong exclusively to their creators. It is clear that the interested parties have, in addition to direct access to their data, the possibility of correcting inaccurate personal data, of completing them, as well as are entitled, in any case where the legal conditions are met, to exercise the rights of deletion, restriction of processing, portability of objection to their processing, as well as the right to withdraw the given consent at any time. To exercise any of the above rights, anyone interested can contact the Festival Manager (ifpa.drama@gmail.com). The dossier submitted for this call will be retained for up to four (4) months after the relevant application deadline in the IFPA archives. Submitting an application means consenting to the retention of data in the IFPA database for the next four (4) months and will only be accessible to authorized IFPA employees.