This article presents the artistic research project Polarity 01: Clytemnestra vs Agamemnon as a case study of practice-based research in performance. The research is structured around polarity as a methodological tool rather than a thematic opposition. Through two distinct yet interrelated parts, the project investigates ancient tragedy across two different cognitive and sensory regimes: embodied, collective musicality and physical presence on the one hand, and digital mediation, fragmented subjectivity and the use of screens and artificial intelligence on the other. The article examines how knowledge is generated through the sustained tension between analogue and algorithmic systems, without aiming for their synthesis. Particular emphasis is placed on the screen as an active dramaturgical and epistemic agent, as well as on artificial intelligence as a collaborative cultural logic rather than a technical instrument. Through detailed reflection on artistic practice, the article proposes a transferable methodological model for artistic research and repositions ancient tragedy as a dynamic field of contemporary research, where human and non-human agencies co-produce meaning.
Stamatopoulou et al. (Tue,) studied this question.