RUNONART presents MARIA SIDERI

PROJECT “IDENTITY IN BETWEEN”
A film on identity and its multiple prisms
Rhizhotomikon, MARIA SIDERI

'...The experimentation and exploration of the relationship between man and nature are the key elements in Maria Sideris’ performance Rhizhotomikon, in which she personifies the plant mandrake, referring to its multifaceted identity. “I am broadening the debate around identity and gender, for something that is not two, but multiple. By resembling the mandrake with my own body, I am interested in understanding the Other. How much space do you actually leave open for something you do not know, in order to understand it, to manage it, to respect it, and finally to coexist with it?” she mentions, broadening [...] the wide field of discourse, of revisions and new narratives about the polyphonic conceptual depth of the term “identity”. Words by Charis Kanellopoulou, Curator-Art Historian

THE PROJECT
The term ‘identity’ is evidently used today in order to describe the characteristics, choices and activities which allow us to discern ourselves, sometimes by joining and other times by separating ourselves from others. Now more than ever, we are living in an era composed of identities, admitting that there is not a single self and that identity does not concern something singular, impervious and stable, but rather a notion with multiple meanings, polyphonic and flowing, opening a broad field of conversation, reevaluation and new narration.

Attempting to delve into the multiple terms (social, cultural, psychological) on the basis of which identities are formed, the project IDENTITY IN BETWEEN is organized by RUNONART, inviting five women artists to create new performance projects and to share their artistic expression and ideas on the notion of the multiple prisms of one’s being.

CREDITS
Production: RUNONART NPO
Project Concept ‒ Film Director: Efi Spyrou
With the support of: Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art Collections, NEON Organization for Culture and Development

Creative team
Artist: Maria Sideri
Texts ‒ Interviews: Charis Kanellopoulou, Paraskevi Tektonidou
Cinematographer: Pavlos Mavrikidis
Assistant Director: Sokratis Morfonios
Dir.Production: Haris Michaloyiannakis
Camera: Jo Capralou, Costas Goulas
Still photography: Emma Louise Charalambous
Sound: Iason Theophanou
Props curator and styling: Milena Panagiotova
Make-up & Hair: Beehive artists | Anna Mpakatsaki
Make up-body painting: Vasiliki Kita
Props master: Socratis Papadopoulos
Costume design: Christina Lardikou
Editing: Giorgos Alefantis
Coloring: Marios Stylianou
Sound composition and sound editing: Dimitris Tsoukas
Αudiovisual translation-subtitling: Myrto Koromantzou
Poster: Yannis Mantzaris

Support by:
Manos Georgakopoulos, Spyros Karanasios, Savvas Theoharakis, Marilena Lakioti, Αthina Lampropoulou, Areti Leopoulou, Christina Paraskevopoulou, Yannis Perrotis, Eva Rapti, Alexandros Stanas, George Zervides, Christos Dogas, Isabelle Kountoure, Peter Hadersdorfer, Georgios Tsiogkas, Paolo Marzano, Christina Rydberg, Chrysa Zarkali

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