Compton Mackenzie no. 27 & Prometheus no.4 / Nicosia
A spy story, finds in houses belonging to spies or spies' families, a war still dividing a land, a Cypriot story. Echo-Arts / Arianna Economou presents a palimpsest performance around the theme of desertion,
absence of human life at the core centres of our towns, through time.
Saline dissonance
The salt of the sea has a flow, and Lara Salmon also has. Exploring the Mediterranean, richer in salt than oceans, Lara landed in Cyprus, where the Larnaca lagoon dries in summer becoming a salt lake.
Buffer Fringe Performing Art Festival 2021
Buffer Fringe is an annual festival with a mission for peacebuilding and social justice, organized by Home for Cooperation. Despite the pandemic restrictions, the festival could be realized both sides of the division.
Taht-el-Kale watermelon
Pandemic winters were hard. But the Cyprus temperature is hot very early. A performer tries to experience renewed...
Be My Home
Home is an intimate concept of belonging, often related to a personal, endless research. Like snails, we carry our fortune and experience and we look for a place.
Nicosia Pop Up Festival 2020
Yearly performative art and craft festival, organized by the Nicosia Municipal Art Centre (NiMAC).
Too much too long
Pipes, no faces, disturbing music: an expression of subjectivity in the flat world of the uniform models.
Fief*
The artist Lenia Georgiou leaded Fief, a group performance in the only place where Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots can meet, see each other, talk to each other, perform together.
Artists in Progress 2020
By establishing the body’s presence within the space and time of the spectator as the workshop’s central axis, participants came in conversation with the image, the object and the relational connections that are produced, in order to expand their mode of practice into a new vocabulary of tools, values and notions provided by the field of performance art.
Reactivate – Nicosia ART Fair
Reactivate – Nicosia Art Fair is an initiative which aims to bring local artists together, and collectively create a space to host expression and creativity in its various forms. Vision is to bring art closer to the public, in an alternative structure that distances itself from the formal way of exhibiting art.
HOME by Dione Roach
A collaborative video installation by Dione Roach and Toya Akpinar which features some of the PERA students. The installation explores ideas of absence and presence, human landscapes set against a more bare, animalistic aspect of nature.