A radical forum of youth-led expression bridging art, science, and activism.
Curated for the youth of tomorrow.

We ARE NOT A

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we are a youth-driven engine for cultural critique, creative intervention, and civic change

About ICEY ARTS

A Radical Youth Platform for Art, Research & Civic Imagination

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International Commentary Expo of Young Artists/Researchers/Technocrats/Scientists

ICEY ARTS is a transdisciplinary, academically grounded youth movement operating at the intersections of art, science, architecture, urbanism, performance, and public policy.
We support creators, researchers, and thinkers under 40 — enabling them to rethink the systems shaping our futures: urban, ecological, social.

Where others exhibit art, we stage critical inquiry.
Where institutions speak from above, ICEY speaks from within — the street, the classroom, the lab, the forum.

our mission

Collapse barriers between art, science, and civic life

We dismantle disciplinary walls for hybrid practices: where performance meets policy, data meets design, and theory becomes intervention.

Turn creative thought into civic dialogue

We treat creativity not as output but as inquiry, a tool to question, provoke, and engage the systems that shape everyday life.

Democratize cultural participation

We rewire how culture is accessed and produced, shifting power from institutions to individuals with ideas worth hearing.

Turn public space into a platform

Streets, squares, and screens become our stages, reclaiming the commons as places for visibility, resistance, and collective imagination.

Amplify youth commentary on societal systems

We support under-40 creators to speak to and disrupt narratives around identity, governance, climate, memory, and urban change.

Support research-based, real-world cultural production

We are rooted in method and meaning, fusing experimentation and evidence to impact the social, spatial, and political realities we inhabit.

Athens 2021: Voices on the Edge

A Radical Youth Platform for Art, Research & Civic Imagination

Portfolio

ATHENS 2021

Contemporary Lifestyle: Under Public Review.

In the wake of lockdowns and unrest, Athens became a stage for re-entry — into public space, collective thought, and radical imagination.

ICEY ARTS 2021 brought together young creators, thinkers, and researchers from across Europe for a hybrid edition of installations, interventions, and critical dialogue — all asking: What does it mean to live now?

From urban tension to digital dissonance, living itself became a subject of memory, conflict, and proposition.

Copyright Credits:
Upper Middle: Axel Savvides
Lower Middle: Axel Papantoniou

ICEY ARTS 2021 took over Athens with a bold curatorial focus on idols, crisis, and collective memory. Youth from over 8 countries co-created installations, provocations, and speculative panels exploring contemporary lifestyle and the realities of sociopolitical burnout

Upper Middle: Raphael Charalambous
Lower Middle: Andreas Panayiotou

Upper Right: ‘Union’ – Aristea-Evagelia Koukounouri
Middle Right: Theodoros Kouros
Lower Right: Antonia Nicolaou

our ethos

The principles beneath the platform.

Radical Accessibility

We eliminate academic and institutional gatekeeping. No credentials required. No insider circles. If your idea challenges, questions, or proposes something real, you belong here!

Interdisciplinarity

We don’t believe in silos or extreme specialization. A project might be part science, part protest, part performance. The work is allowed to spill across boundaries, because real life already does.

Commentary as Strategy

It responds, resists, reframes. Every project is a statement of dissent, a cultural disruption, and a proposition for how things could be rebuilt.  We don’t aim for applause; we aim for the possibility of change.

Youth Ownership

This is not a borrowed platform. ICEY is conceived, curated, and created by people under 40, not represented, but in control. No tokenism. No translation. Full authorship.

Structural Friction

We work in the pressure points, where systems fail, where memory erodes, where power hides in plain sight. Our projects create tension on purpose. Not to provoke for provocation’s sake, but to expose what resists change and imagine what could take its place.

Temporal Urgency

We work in real time. Our projects respond to now not in hindsight, but in the middle of unfolding crises. We don’t wait for the system to catch up, we promote the themes to exam.

our Methods

From concept to confrontation.

Cultural Disruption

We use art not to soothe, but to interfere. ICEY ARTS hosts projects that are ruptures, breaking patterns, confronting norms, and demanding attention to what matters today.

We reframe identity, politics, and digital culture through commons, sports, transdisciplinary art practices, installations, and visual interventions.

Dialogical Platforms

Our events are conversations, not monologues. Through panels, public interventions, and street-level dialogue, we treat discourse as a shared civic tool, not a performance.

Through talks, workshops, and symposiums, ICEY opens space for critical youth commentary and speculative futures.

Societal Interventions

We don’t do symbolic gestures. Every ICEY initiative is a real-time insertion into public, political, or urban systems, proposing tangible cultural, spatial, or civic shifts.

We activate public space and institutional frameworks to challenge exclusion, reimagine urbanity, and influence policy-making.

ICEY ARTS EXPO

International Commentary Expo of Youth Artists, Researchers, Technocrats & Scientists
International Commentary Expo of Youth Artists, Researchers, Technocrats, and Scientists ICEY ARTS is a transdisciplinary, youth-led initiative reimagining the intersections of contemporary art, academic research, and political speculation. Founded by the Association of International Relations Students (AIRS) in Cyprus, the platform engages creators aged 18–35 in a critical and poetic practice of collective commentary. From urban silences to climate collapse, data colonialism to memory fatigue — we don’t just react. We respond by constructing archives, interventions, exhibitions, and discourse that shape future civic imaginaries.

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Our Foundations

🎨 Artistic Counter-Narratives We support emerging interdisciplinary artists exploring marginal aesthetics, post-crisis storytelling, and new visual grammars. Through glitch video, speculative object design, and zine culture, ICEY ARTISTS turn political rupture into creative invention. This is a space for disobedient media, hybrid identities, and poetic resistance. 🔊 Dialogical Architectures We don’t host events. We stage frictions. ICEY runs panels, labs, and discussion formats that blend youth philosophy, critical theory, and embodied knowledge. Our forums include academics, dancers, poets, architects, and activists — often in the same room. Or the same field. Or online at 3AM. We reject extractive intellectualism. Our goal: narrate futures that institutions can’t. ♿ Radical Accessibility & Inclusive Practice Accessibility is not charity. It’s design. We embed accessibility from the ground up — tactile archives, quiet rooms, multi-sensory exhibitions, live captions, and wheelchair-adapted installations. ICEY ensures full participation of D/deaf, neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled artists and audiences. Inclusivity is not the goal — access is the infrastructure. 🏟 Kinetic Cultures & Sport Activism Sport is more than play — it’s public choreography. ICEY activates futsal courts, running tracks, and street arenas as stages for social dialogue. We support gender-diverse games, choreographed protest, embodied performance, and sport-based installation. By merging movement with meaning, ICEY reclaims sport as a civic and cultural act. 🧪 Cultural & Scientific Translation Science is not neutral — and art is not elite. ICEY creates platforms where research becomes public ritual: from climate sonification and algorithmic poetry to citizen science walks and biohacked sculpture. We translate data, memory, and speculation into new shared grammars — poetic, participatory, and sometimes edible. 🏙 Urban & Civic Interventions Cities are palimpsests — full of ghost plans, lost futures, and architectural silence. ICEY reclaims civic voids, unfinished developments, and neglected heritage through spatial installations, sonic maps, tactical performances, and ephemeral structures. We collaborate with municipalities, universities, collectives, and ministries — not to decorate cities, but to re-script them.

Get Involved

Are you a creator, researcher, urbanist or rebel thinker? ICEY invites international youth aged 18–35 to shape the next iteration of the Expo.