Crossing Boundaries: Artists In Search of Identity

Modern reality has taught us that the identity of each person is not sealed but rather a dynamic set of identities: national, cultural, social, gender, and professional. Any social tensions, all the more catastrophes, destabilize their delicate balance in the individual and interfere with the understanding of oneself as a part or product of something specific. A modern artist, entering into arguments with tradition and school, with society and power, with themselves and their art, inevitably faces questions — especially since the catastrophic challenges of recent years’ request answers. How is the identity of a modern artist constructed, what does it consist of, what shapes it? Composers of different generations, as well as experts from various areas of the modern art scene — from visual arts to theatre — will try and offer some answers to these questions.