Sat, 23 Nov. 2024 - Sun, 29 Dec. 2024
Nicosia 2030, candidate city for European Capital of Culture, presents the series of public interventions “OTHONI”, as part of its goal for art to be accessible to all and not only to visitors of a museum or exhibition. The series was conceived and curated by visual artist PASHIAS, as part of the Parallel Program of the Nicosia International Festival 2024. For six consecutive weekends, all 17 Smart Nicosia screens, located centrally at the capital’s streets and avenues, will be taken over by video artworks, exhibited in public space and time, because art is for everyone. “OTHONI” aims to connect citizens and visitors with the city they inhabit, utilizing pre-existing means of visual communication to provide a window into the passerby’s daily life.
Each video proposes a moving image, unfolds into an environment, and takes the form of a poetic gesture, of a personal statement or public interference. Motivated by the urgent necessity for social inclusion, the selected artists reexamine their relationship with the urban environment and their social surroundings, in dialogue or in confrontation with the dominant modes of utilizing public space and perceiving individual differences. From performative images to animated landscapes, object installation to text-based research, “OTHONI” presents diverse mediums of video art, to provide windows for understanding and evaluating our relationship to current social settings.
28 Dec.- 29 Nov. (20:30- 23:59)
Tales Frey displays a subverted boxing match, a ritual dance of violence that starts and ends with futility, as the two opponents are connected by...
21 Dec.- 22 Dec. (20:30- 23:59)
Engaging with new technology software and AI programs, Erifili Doukeli creates 3D digital landscapes, in order to navigate the abundance of data...
14 Dec.- 15 Dec. (20:30- 23:59)
BBB Johannes Deimling constructs performative images through a multilayered language of visuals and senses, calling for attention to the ‘mundane...
07 Dec.- 08 Dec. (20:30- 23:59)
Raafat Majzoub puts in text a kind of fictional realism about "an Arab world where me and my friends can live and thrive", void of borders...
30 Nov.- 01 Dec. (20:30- 23:59)
Providing a window into the sea landscape, Yiannis Pappa’s moving image is centered upon a dark still figure, reminiscent of folklore wise men...
23 Nov.- 24 Nov. (20:30- 23:59)
The statement in Lefki Savvidou’s artwork is clear, "we are running out of patience". In this case, ‘we’ refers to all individuals whose...