The Instituto Universitario de la Danza “Alicia Alonso” of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid (Spain), in the framework of the European project ABC (Arts/Borders/Communities) the alphabet of love- an international initiative co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union (support line for Cooperation Projects in the cultural field) - and in collaboration with Astràgali Teatro - Sociedad Cooperativa Eufonia (Italy), the Grotowski Institute (Poland), the Museums and Galleries of the City of Podgorica (Montenegro), the Aykart Cultural Centre (Tunisia) and the Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory of the Department of Engineering for Innovation of the University of Salento (Italy), launches this specific call addressed to creators in the field of screendance, video art and video performance.

Awards & Prizes

The selected works will be exhibited in the two official venues of the European ABC project in Spain: San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid) and Peguerinos (Ávila) and the selection may also be presented in the respective countries of the project's international collaborators. All the works will form part of an official catalogue documenting the festival edition and will be included for dissemination in the Institutional Repository of the BURJ Digital (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), linked to the virtual libraries Hispana, Europeana, e-Science, Recolecta, OAIster, OpenAIRE and OpenDoar. It is also possible to exhibit it in other venues or locations in Madrid for its wider dissemination.

Rules & Terms

At a time when human bonds are woven, distorted and redefined through screens, platforms and algorithms, screendance, videoart and videoperformance is presented as an artistic language capable of exploring, questioning and reimagining our ways of being together. This call from the ABC Project invites creators to submit works that address the impact of technology on human relationships: how do we inhabit the digital with the body? What emotions emerge on the margins of the virtual? What forms of connection, isolation, desire or community are generated in this new technified social fabric?

Works may be submitted in the following thematic categories:

1. Explorations of affection, desire or closeness in relationships mediated by digital devices (video calls, chats, social networks, etc.).
2. Works that depict how bodies interact and express themselves in digital or globally connected environments.
3. Reflections on emotional isolation in a hyper-connected world.
4. Research on the construction of digital identities, the presentation of the body in movement in social networks and modified corporealities.
5. Works inspired by the languages of big data, algorithms and artificial intelligence applied to the body and movement.
6. Works that propose a critique, subversion or poetic re-appropriation of digital space as a way of generating new forms of community or protest.