Usually the beginning of July is marked by desolation of this city, long vacations and a stillness that settles over the dusty streets. Traditionally, at the end of of that same month in various parts of that same city, obscure to some where and why exactly then, a series of events dedicated to the innovative approach and collaboration in the arts happen, organized around the common ground of conversation and experiment.
A preliminary conversation between participants (or the so called 180 degrees – Community Lab) became an open discussion and space for a wide range of individuals with similar interests, similar questions and different practice – as context and experience, which managed to introduce some of the participants, give a direction for the festival and the explorations inherent in this format, as well as to engage the audience by blurring the line between participants and audience. In fact, in this fluid transition from participant to audience and vice versa, the informal atmosphere around each performance and exchange in the form of conversation or experience is one of the key elements of the 180 Degrees – Innovative Art Lab festival. In an effort to communicate vividly with its audience, the festival actually relies on the innovation in the interaction between a live performance and its, also live, experience by the other.