DISCORD / POLARITIES

IRIDA VISIONS
POLARITIES
8th February 2025, 8.30 pm
Irida Theatre, 55 Acadimias str. & 15 Ippokratous str.

The art group POLARITIES by artists, Jim Hobbs (UK/USA), Jono Crabbe (UK), Maria Glyka (Greece), Vassilis Vlastaras (Greece), Maria Karantzi (UK/Greece), Fotini Kalle (Greece) and Jorge Cabieses-Valdes (Chile) who create live expanded cinematic works using 16mm film, digital projection, sculptural elements, performance and various acoustic tools in collaboration with the artists Anastasia, Alexandra Apsokardou, Arileia Buséu, Tatiana Choremi, Thanos Despotopoulos (Soulis), Markos Kampourakis, Constantinos Koulakmanidis, Silia Oikonomidou, Elena Stiga and Maritina Tselepi presents:

ΔΙΧΟΝΟΙΑ
(DISCORD)

For this year´s event, the artists are working with the concept of discordance as it relates to political, social, cultural and economic structures. The programme will see the artists explore the performative nature of their own individual works and create a new collaborative piece which responds specifically to the idea of discordance as structures of opposition, social dichotomies and its more poetic and symbolic extensions.
There will be multiple projections/screenings/performances/installations throughout the entire physical space of Irida Theater.
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Polarities is the name of a working group of artists from around the world that represent multiple academic and artistic backgrounds: The Sound/Image Research Centre at The University of Greenwich, the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Chile, the ASFA Athens School of Fine Arts, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Vakalo Art and Design College. Polarities has recently performed and exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago, Chile), Sound/Image 2023 Festival, University of Greenwich (London, UK) and the Contemporary Museum of Crete in Rethymno (Crete, GR). This will be the second time the group has developed a specific programme for Irida Visions.
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Irida Visions is organized by the four sections of the Cultural Club of Students of the University of Athens (Π.Ο.Φ.Π.Α.): The Film, Photography, Dance and Theatre sections. The festival, starting dynamically in November 2022, now counts more than 100 events, with the uninterrupted and fervent support of the Athenian artistic community.