OTHER ACTIONS
“Island In Between”
INTRODUCING
Pre-festival event
“Island In Between” | APHRODITE (CY/UK)
🗓️ Friday 29/09 🕗 14:00-19:00
📍 State Gallery of Contemporary Art
“Island In Between” is an amalgamation of traditional Cypriot textiles, sewn together by threads and communal storytelling, focusing on intersectional, queer and feminine aspects of the island’s people.
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I am a queer Cypriot British artist whose work focuses primarily on performance art and drag artistry, and on exploring and championing the inherent non-conformist essence of Cypriot culture.
The spa of the century
THE SPA OF THE CENTURY | A new production by Xarkis (CY)
🗓️ Friday 13/10 🕖 17:30 (opening)
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕖 12:30-17:00
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 12:00-17:00
📍 Potters Coop (POTTERS STREET)
Bridging self-care and community-care, the SPA of the Century is a conceptual spa experience, curated in a decentralised manner, involving a team of curators, artists and instigators of initiatives. It aims to function and evolve as a space of mutual care which hosts performative actions, gestures and events rooted in healing practices, and moments of togetherness.
With Natalie Yiaxi (CY), Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon (CY, BE) and Christina Skarpari (CY)
Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon
I am a performer, teacher and curator from Cyprus, based in Brussels. My curatorial practice and performance research focuses on the moving, speaking, seeking body, often exploring through fictions and characters.
Christina Skarpari
I am a multi-disciplinary practitioner, curator-researcher, straddling between photography, ethnographic practices and social design. My work is currently located in the sphere of public and participatory projects and community engagement in heritage contexts.
Natalie Yiaxi
I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Nicosia. Through my practice I attempt to capture the ineffable, the unnoticed, and those affectual aspects of everyday life which are not readily available for observation.
Contemporary votive offerings
Contemporary votive offerings | Vasiliki Riala
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕖 10:00-17:00
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 10:00-17:00
📍 Kafeneion Anagennisi Kornou
The contemporary votive offerings project explores the tradition of tamata and their symbolical meaning, through the contemporary needs and concerns of the rural villages of Cyprus.
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Born in Nicosia in 1995, I attained a BA in Fine Arts (2018) from Minerva Academy in the Netherlands. I’m the founder of ÷xroniko concept store, dedicated to Cyprus’ archaeological idols.
The Game – Kornos extension
The Game – Kornos extension | Arthur Debert
🗓️ Saturday 14/10 🕖 10:00-17:00
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 10:00-17:00
📍Kafeneion Anagennisi Kornou
With The Game, participants are invited to play a hand made famous board-game. Touching snail shells, asbestos stones and fruit pods, mixed feelings about the usage of natural materials become most tangible.
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My practice takes shape in collaboration and exchange and questions the transmission and the survival of knowledge. Objects bearing knowledge and their transitioning processes are transcribed into installations and videos.
Neo-futuristic Walk
Neo-futuristic Walk | Aušra Česnauskytė (NLD/LT)
🗓️ Sunday 15/10 🕖 11:00
📍 Starting point: Potters Coop (POTTERS STREET)
A series of experimental Kornos inspections exploring the site from a neo-futurist perspective. The research will culminate in a performative walk, pondering the role of crafts in future Kornos inhabitants’ routines.
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I am Aušra Česnauskytė, a Lithuanian spatial designer based in the Netherlands. My practice falls into the transdisciplinary field between architecture, experimental urban research, speculative design and performance.
Participation form (required)
A meeting of worlds
A meeting of worlds | a series of ecopedagogical experiments
🗓️ Friday 13/10
🕖 11:15-13:30 | Cognitive Mapping
🕖 15:15-17:30 | Cognitive Mapping
🗓️ Saturday 14/10
🕖 10:00-13:00 | Earth speak: Walk + Soil Chromatography
🕖 16:00-18:00 | Earth speak: Gathering & Writing Tsiattista
🗓️ Sunday 15/10
🕖 15:00-16:30 | The question game
📍 Kafeneio ANAGENNISI KORNOU
Led by Denise Araouzou. Participating: Eleni Odysseos, Ömür Ray, Evagoras Vanezis, Vijdan Şengör, Leontios Toumpouris, Erman Dolmacı, Christina Skarpari
This is an interdisciplinary and intercommunal group that will host three experiments in a space conceived as a laboratory, shaped by posthumanist, critical and embodied environmental pedagogies.
#1 Explores our perception of the in/visible world through a cognitive mapping workshop guided by embodiment and sensory exercises.
#2 Combines the study of Kornos soil, with ecocriticism and local traditional oral and written poetry.
#3 Is a gathering during which participants dialogue only in questions.
Eleni Odysseos
I am a visual artist working between Nicosia and London.
In my practice, I search for remnants of interconnectedness. My paintings explore desire, abjection, and isolation through symbolic figuration, choreographing a constellation of painting, text, sound, and light.
Evagoras Vanezis
I am Evagoras Vanezis, a curator and writer based in Nicosia with an interest in multidisciplinary and open systems for exchanging, learning and living.
Ömür Ray
“I am currently pursuing my PhD in psychology with a focus on stigma, prejudice and discrimination. I work in queer movements as a human rights activist.”
Vijdan Sengor
I am an active citizen residing in the northern part of Cyprus, an environmental engineer by profession and a climate justice advocate through my passion for a united and sustainable Cyprus.
Erman Dolmaci
I’m an LGBTI+ rights advocate pursuing a Gender Studies PhD at the University of Cyprus. With a background in Environmental Engineering and Sociology, I’ve also worked on various Human Rights related projects with the perspective of intersectional activism.
Leontios Toumpouris
I am an artist and educator based in Nicosia. I draw from organic structures, traditions of depiction and discursive practices to configure my work in sculpture, site-responsive installation, text, sound and moving image.
Christina Skarpari
I am a multi-disciplinary practitioner, curator-researcher, straddling between photography, ethnographic practices and social design. My work is currently located in the sphere of public and participatory projects and community engagement in heritage contexts.