The CCFT- Creative Center of Fluid Territories in collaboration with the NGO ‘Urban Gorillas’ and the Architecture Department of the University of Nicosia invites you to the event ‘Ayios Sozomenos – place of barley’ _ ‘Timeless Encounters’ with a series of creative interventions and events within Ayios Sozomenos and the surrounding area.
Through the different forms of presentation, CCFT proposes to explore aspects of the nature of Ayios Sozomenos as a place that is redolent of complex histories: both personal and national. Related events will also take place within communities in the neighboring village of Potamia.
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 24 March 2018 | 15:00 – 00:00 | Ayios Sozomenos and Potamia |
| Sunday, 25 March 2018 | 11:00 – 19:00 | Ayios Sozomenos and Potamia |
| Monday, 26 March 2018 | 19:00 – 22:00 | Spanish Ambassador’s residence |
The events will include activities with the following participants:
- Ana Souto, Art Historian, UK/ Spain
- Artist Duncan Higgins , UK
- Artist Susan Brind, UK
- Artist Jim Harold, UK
- Artist Shauna McMullan, UK
- Architect Yiorgos Hadjichristou
- Artist Johan Sandberg, Norway
- Artist, Graphic Designer Linda Lien, Norway
- Artist Andy Lock, UK and Norway
- Roof Top Bicommunal theater group
- Artist Kyriakos Kallis – sculptor.
- Hayal Gezer, performance- video – installation- artist
- Andri Tsiouti / architect and cultural landscape
- Serap Kanay sound video and text artist
- Duncan Mc Cowan – English language teacher, author of a book on spiders
- The Association of Cyprus Paper Artists
- Despo Pasia- teacher, Museologist – Museum Educator
- Sevina Zisimou- architect
- Bicommunal group Peace 2 Piece project/ Open Air crochet installations
- Panikos Chrysanthou- film director
- Architects Maria Hadjisoteriou, Angela Petrou with the Unit students and projects done for Agios Sozomenos
- NGO Urban Gorillas
The Creative Centre for Fluid Territories: People, Places, Processes (CCFT) is a group of artists, architects, designers and cultural theorists from England, Scotland, Norway, Cyprus and Lithuania, whose practices, individually (and collectively), seek to consider the nature and value of space and spaces, public as well as, marginal.
In November 2016, as part of CCFT’s rolling programme of practice-led research events, the Department of Architecture at the University of Nicosia organised and hosted an exhibition and colloquium that explored questions of place-identity in relation to the particular context of Nicosia and Cyprus. Members of CCFT spent 5 days as guests of the Department of Architecture, participating in the teaching programme (working particularly closely with staff and students who had mapped sections of the UN Buffer Zone in relation to an architectural project) and during their fieldwork, one site in particular became the focus of interest: the now deserted village of Ayios Sozomenos.
