International Forum of Performance Art

28/04/2026

PERFORMANCE

Polychromatic White by Agape Kossidou

A ritualistic emergence of form from the formless.

«Polychromatic White» explores the friction of the «summer soul»—the clash between the vibrant world outside and the internal weight of discomfort. It is a psychomatic journey of feeling like an «alien» in a hyper-realistic reality, where sensitivity becomes both a sanctuary and a struggle.

Inspired by the Platonic «Chora» from Timaeus, the body acts as a living vessel for sound, image, and word. Shaped by memory, trauma, and nature, the performer becomes a transitional landscape where emotions arise and dissolve in a constant state of becoming.

A world of perpetual flow, where sensitivity is the raw matter of creation.

27/03/2026

📢 OPEN CALL VIEWING ROOM ❗
🗓️ 24-27 September 2026 | Drama

⛔ The 8th International Forum of Performance Art seeks for artists who experiment and express themselves in the field of:

● Digital Performance
● Video Art
● Experimental Film

🔺 This year’s theme: “Post-Anthropocene: Libidinal Foldings”

📌 The selected works will frame the Viewing Room, serving as a global stage for artistic dialogue and hybrid storytelling.

🚨 The call encourages innovative visual languages that challenge the traditional limits of the screen and redefine the “living” experience through the prism of scientific and technological evolution.

⏳Deadline by 14 June 2026

🔗 Find out more and apply here: https://www.ifpa.gr/open-call-for-participation-in-the-viewing-room-of-the-8th-ifpa/?lang=en

23/03/2026

📢 OPEN CALL PERFORMANCE❗
🗓️ 24-27 September 2026 | Drama

⛔The 8th International Forum of Performance Art returns with an open call for live performances. If you are an artist or a group active in the field of performance art, this is the time to present your work in the context of an international meeting with this year’s theme: “Post-Anthropocene: Libidinal Foldings”.

🔺 The call focuses on the redefinition of identity, desire, and the living experience as a radical poetic-political act in the face of scientific and technological evolution. We encourage performances that navigate the fluid boundaries between the human and the non-human, the physical and the artificial, reflecting on the (re)construction of subjectivity through the “foldings” of the body—whether in physical space or through technological mediation.

We welcome experimental, interdisciplinary, and hybrid formats that challenge normative perceptions, deconstruct binary structures, and propose new performative languages within the emergent territories of the Post-Anthropocene.

‼️ATTENTION‼️ The open call for the Viewing Room will be announced soon❗

🔴 Participation requirements:

● The proposed performance must not exceed 45 minutes
● Title and short description of the work (up to 300 words)
● Artist/team biography (up to 200 words)
● Short Portfolio or link to previous actions

⏳Deadline by 14 June 2026
📌 Proposals will be evaluated by the IFPA Artistic Director.

🔗 Find out more and apply for participation here: https://www.ifpa.gr/open-call-for-participation-in-the-live-performances-of-the-8th-ifpa/?lang=en

17/03/2026

📢 OPEN CALL FORUM ❗
🗓️ 24-27 September 2026 | Drama

⛔ The big moment has arrived! The 8th International Forum of Performance Art officially opens its doors to artists, researchers and academics who want to share their perspective, thought and work on this year’s theme: “Post-Anthropocene: Libidinal Foldings”.
🔺The forum will investigate the transition to a post-digital reality where the body is redefined in its hybrid essence.

If you are an academic, artist or researcher interested in participating in the forum now is the time to submit your application!

‼️ATTENTION‼️ Open calls for live performances and the Viewing Room respectively will be announced soon❗

🕒 Duration of Presentation: Up to 20 minutes
🇬🇷 🇬🇧 Language: English or Greek
⏳Submission Deadline: By June 14, 2026
🛑 To submit your application, please send the following documents:
● Abstract
● CV
● Contact details

🔺Forum applications are evaluated by a scientific committee and selected for presentation at the forum.

🔗 Find out more and apply for participation here: https://www.ifpa.gr/open-call-for-participation-in-the-forum-of-the-8th-ifpa/?lang=en

26/02/2026

É(d)ros & Helen

An audiovisual lecture-performance

Inspired by Greek folk rituals and reimagined as a contemporary multimedia narrative, É(d)ros & Helen bridges cinema and vernacular performative traditions.

Presented by Renata Dalinoudi, Associate Professor of Musicology & Audiovisual Culture, Ionian University and Panagiotis Sdoukos, Performer & PhD Candidate, Ionian University

A dialogue between myth, desire, and moving image.
Tradition reframed through sound, body, and screen.

18/02/2026

PERFORMANCE

CHORA FEEDBACK — noise in the cavity of the Idea
POST FLUXUS BROTHERS in noise

Where language fractures and noise becomes origin.
A sonic collision between the semiotic and the symbolic.
Feedback as rupture.
Chora as shifting ground.

Not structure.
Not order.
But the tremor before meaning.

11/02/2026

INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE

INTERFACE by Ioanna Skantzeli

The body as Chora: the primal territory where memory, desire and trauma are inscribed.
A return not to geography, but to the somatic and psychic landscape — where the unconscious whispers and images emerge between dream and reality.

Not nostalgia.
A descent.

Into the body.
Into memory.
Into what never truly disappears.

05/02/2026

Countdown to the 4th Scientific Performance Conference! 📍 Patras, Greece

Starting tomorrow, the heart of performance research beats in Patras, and the International Forum of Performance Art (.drama) is proud to be part of this significant scientific dialogue. We are bringing the methodology and vision of our organization to the forefront of the discussion on the body and the Anthropocene. 🏛️✨

Representing IFPA at the conference:

👥 Yannis Mitrou (), Artistic Director of IFPA and member of the conference’s Scientific Committee, with a dual presence:

As a keynote speaker, delving into the philosophy and practice of performativity.

As the facilitator of a specialized workshop, translating his extensive research into embodied practice.

🔍 Vicky Konstantinidou ( , Director of IFPA, presenting the paper:

“The Body as Spectacle: Digital Performance and the Ecology of Presence”. An in-depth analysis of IFPA’s innovative Viewing Room methodology and the ontological shift of the body within the digital habitat.

Through this active participation, IFPA reaffirms its role as a vital link between artistic evolution and academic discourse, shaping the future of performance art in Greece and beyond. 🤝

🗓️ Starts: Tomorrow, February 6th, 2026 📍 Patras

30/01/2026

Sit back, relax, and let move you — once again 👀

The aftermovie of 7th International Forum of Performance Art 25 - 28 September 2025Drama, GreeceThe theme of the IFPA #7 was "Homelands / Return to Xora".More...

27/01/2026

is on the way

A first glimpse into the questions shaping this year’s edition.
More soon.

21/01/2026

PERFORMANCE

At the Byzantine Walls, Lab-Performance by Maro Theodosiou and Maria Harela unfolded as an open laboratory of bodies in action.

A performative encounter taking shape in real time, where gesture, repetition, and presence became tools of exploration. The body emerged simultaneously as material, process, and archive — testing limits, relationships, and shifting states of being within the charged historical landscape.

A shared terrain of listening, friction, and transformation.