Video Art Miden has been invited to present a selection of Greek video art in the frame of the Spanish festival PROYECTOR in Madrid, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with a rich program, taking place in various venues in Madrid from 7 to 18 of September 2022. Along with Miden, renowninternational festivals such as the collaborative festival network Loops.Expanded, FONLAD (Portugal) and PLAY (Argentina) participate in this year’s PROYECTOR with their selections.

Video Art Miden will present the video art program “Greece is a state of mind”, curated by Gioula& Olga Papadopoulou. The screening is scheduled for September 17, 2022, 17.30, at SalaEquis (Calledel Duque de Alba, 4, Madrid).

The title of the selection is a direct reference to the Greek official tourism campaign that was released just while exiting the coronavirus first strict lockdown. 7 well-known Greek video artists synthesize through their videos and their personal visions an alternative approach to contemporary issues of identity, culture, self-definition and self-placement in the world.

Participant artists:

YiorgosDrosos, Anna Vasof, MakisKyriakopoulos, GioulaPapadopoulou, Leda Patta, Margarita Stavraki, Nikos Giavropoulos

More info about PROYECTOR, as well as updates about this year’s events, can be found on the official website of the organization: https://proyector.info/project/17-09-2022-sala-equis/

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Video Art Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.