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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.