Performance Artists Opportunity: "mo - men - tum" ARC's 1st Annual Performance Festival

A call for performance artists to be included in mo-men-tum, the First Annual Performance Festival on Fri., Aug. 25, at ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, 2156 N. Damen Ave., is open until July 21. 

Among entrants urged to apply are those who give durational, timed or start and stop performances, dance, sound, music, cabaret, interactive or a combination of all the above. 

Jurors
Two Chicago-based women performers, Karen Lange and Elena Katsulis, will be the jurors. 

Lange, in the last 20 years, has performed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing, festivals and at gallery openings. She holds two Masters, one from the Art Institute (2004) and the other from Northern Illinois University (2007). 

Katsulis has a BFA from Columbia College and has performed in numerous galleries and festivals in Chicago and Boston. A member of the performance group named KEN, she has performed with them all around the City for the last ten years. 

Applications
Applicants are required to send a video clip, up to three minutes, of their performance, photographs of their performances or any other visual means to best convey their performance concept.

For applicants planning to perform this art piece for the first time, send a detailed performance storyboard, practice footage or any other visual means to best convey the performance concept.

In the applications, performers must estimate the amount of space needed, the performance time and any necessary materials that will be used.