2020, the year of the pandemic. The primary need of living communication with others, the end of confidence, the need for hope, observation of change and the liberation of nature from human greed were unprecedented conditions and concerns of our daily experience.
Category: Performances
Too much too long
Pipes, no faces, disturbing music: an expression of subjectivity in the flat world of the uniform models.
Buffer Fringe Performing Art Festival 2020
Buffer Fringe is an annual festival with a mission for peacebuilding and social justice, organized by Home for Cooperation in Nicosia, both sides. In 2020, because of the pandemic restrictions, the festival was restricted to one theatre.
Once There Was A Forest
A performance about a world gradually diminishing, dedicated in memory of a lost forest. A performer on stage creates an ever-changing landscape using natural and man-made materials, and invites you to look at how fragile and temporary the world has become.
Creation
Δημιουργείν (Create) deals with the effort to understand this phenomenon, that is, to create. This performance is the result of a research intention regarding the evolutionary process of production as well as the driving force of the producer.
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.
We are the Art
Is Art related to theatres, buildings, funding, business and financial statements? Or Art is related to artists, with their bodies, their braveness, their uninterrupted research, their passions, their culture, their revolutionary goals?
Where are you all?
The limited size of the island, the division, in 2020 the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. Actresses and actors have a hard life in this warm island. Natalia plays the clown, like every character she desperately needs her audience, her soulmates, her friends. She finds closed theatres and barbed wires.
Karfitses / Pins – Homage to Christoforos Savva
Kartses / Pins is a homage to Christoforos Savva, inspired by three of his works: Circles and Squares, Sphere and Rising Form. A dance–performance, upon observing the fluidity, the play of light and movement within the thickly inhabited canvas of pins of the works by Christoforos Savva.
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.