Projects
Our projects are characterized by:
- A curious, experimental approach, where new insights, methodologies, theoretical underpinnings, and knowledge about artistic and cultural expressions are put into focus in new and challenging contexts.
- They are inspired from unexplored areas of theoretical and historical study to inform the curation of international, interdisciplinary exhibitions, seminars, conferences, and lectures.
- Fresh, challenging perspectives in thinking and working with contemporary art through a variety of innovative research methodologies and within the context of current local/global/glocal geopolitical and social issues.
Anthropocene / Capitalocene: Rethinking Nature
Our research and projects are exploring contemporary art and indigenous/ local forms of cultural and environmental knowledge and reflection. They are focusing on the need to reintegrate nature and culture in addressing ecological crisis, climatic variability and, more specifically, global climate change. Our Projects and Actions have the merit of being part of an unprecedented cultural and political revolution which artists, scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, all from different universes, put their knowledge at the service of the fight against the direct actors of this climate crisis.
VITAL
VITAL aims to create an innovative artistic ecosystem that respects the environment and contributes in its own way to the fight against global warming and atmospheric pollution.
Rethinking Nature
Marítima and Es Baluard Museu are presenting their opening session of their joint program on video artworks. The first talk is a discussion between artists on nature's cross disciplinary art projects.
The Mediterranean Sea / Mare Nostrum
Our research and projects are exploring contemporary art and curatorial practices as forms of critical inquiry, social engagement and knowledge production focusing on the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Biennale of Contemporary Art of Mediterranean Islands
Marlands Project, co-funded by Creative Europe Program of the European Union, is formed by α community of Contemporary Artists and Scientists motivated to address cultural and ecological issues pertinent to the Mediterranean islands.
Marlands Residencies
MARLANDS is a communicative space for the participating institutions, artists, researchers and the public united around the Mediterranean with a particular focus on the islands of the region.
MARLANDS/Maritima - Islands of the Mediterranean (Creative Europe)
MARLANDS/Maritima - Islands of the Mediterranean is a multidisciplinary artistic project and communication platform for the Mediterranean Islands. Proposed by a number of important institutions, it was successfully selected for funding by Creative Europe Program in 2022.
Maritima Art Project
Marítima’01 is an art project based on the interest of the environmental state of the Mediterranean Sea and its region. Marítima’01 brings together contemporary artists and scientists to create collaborative art works and inventive synergies, under the patronage of the University of Valencia.
Heterotopias of Evocation / Venice Biennale
The project focuses on the role of an island (Cyprus and Malta) as cultural a center of the Mediterranean Sea, both in history and in current times. The project invites the audience to reflect on their own lifetime journey of self-discovery, their own search for a personal Haven/Port. Drawing on the tri-fold of history/archaeology, myth/tradition and vision/expectation, the project aims to recreate a topos/locus of artistic conversation for the whole of the Mediterranean Sea.
Bringing together artists from the Mediterranean, the core of the artworks proposed includes specially commissioned pieces engaging the audience to complementary semantic enquiries into the contemporary conditions of “homeness/(un) homeness” spreading beyond the predisposed mental notions of assigned tactile borders.
Bridges of Atlantropa Workshops
Workshop with the First Year Fine Arts Students of the Cyprus University of Technology and pupils of the French Cypriot School, Nicosia. In the frame of Venice Biennial. Supported by Malta Arts Council and Sponsored by the Bank of Valletta.
Walking Practices / Reclaiming Spaces
Our research and projects rethink what it means to walk and explore different ways in which to walk as: a cultural practice, a meditative practice, a radical practice, protest, art, healing and social engagement.
Lines and steps, weaving words and walks: The Walking Body III
In the frame of Contemporary Walking Arts, the Walking Body III, (TWB3) is an artistic event and innovative encounter with educational and research character. It has an interdisciplinary nature and approach, which includes theoretical and practical concerns on participation, encounter and dialogue.
Walking: The Cyprus Experience
How can divided Cyprus, scarred by wars and ethnic conflicts that have left open wounds in the fabric of the country, try to heal itself and incorporate its traumatic memories within its spatial organization? Is such an incorporation possible?
The Long Walk
For the The Long Walk at “Prespes Walking Encounters’’ 2021, two exact copies of the yellow ‘’Caution’’ signs (The Yellow Immigration Sign was a U.S. highway safety sign warning motorists to avoid colliding with illegal immigrants darting across the road), were placed at Psarades Village near the Greek borders of Prespes. These Yellow Signs are depicting a man, woman, and girl with pigtails running.
Rural Platforms / Places for Co-creation and Reconnection
These projects aim to create and augment research in culture and the arts in non-urban environments, embrace peripheral areas and integrate rurality and non-urban contexts in future art projects and events. The projects will involve local actors and stakeholders to identify particular spaces and practices that are ripe and ready for reinterpretation; and radically re-frame heritage in terms of people’s actual practices and re-imagine it through the lens of contemporary arts and living culture.
Our projects will be guided by the following principles:
- Expand focus from built heritage to intangible heritage and living, forward-thinking contemporary art and cultural practices.
- Respect the autonomy of local communities, foster motivation and self-empowerment through building awareness of existing values and active involvement of local communities in all stages. Stimulate participation, inclusion and equality as guiding values of cultural and artistic work.
- Encourage long-term connections, collaboration and networking among cultural operators in non-urban contexts, by organizing exchanges and peer-to-peer learning and investing in permanent networks; Design networks of local policy-makers to exchange best practices of culture-led local development.
- Expand and improve training for artists and cultural producers who want to engage with rural contexts to do so with an informed position, using methodologies and analytic tools from other disciplines.
- Support cross-sectoral alliances (arts, science, social sectors) that address transversal issues and challenges (ecology, natural resources, sustainability, relationship to the landscape, etc) and serve as “change laboratories”; give visibility to such multidisciplinary projects to inspire other sectors;
CUT Fine Arts International Research Center, Ayios Ioannis Pitsilias
The Research Centre, initiated and established by the CUT Fine Arts Department at Ayios Ioannis Pitsillias, a rural community in the mountains near Limassol, aims to:
- Further develop the Fine Arts Department’s mobility, social contribution, community outreach and rural cultural regeneration.
- Contribute to the advancement of theoretical and practical research in Fine Arts, locally, regionally and internationally.
- Establish an ecosystem of contemporary art (residencies, workshops, seminars, conferences, symposia) as a crucial mode in international circulation and career development.
- Provide a vital infrastructure for critical thinking and artistic experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration, interdisciplinary knowledge production, and site-specific research.
- Become a landmark of artistic innovation thus bringing the Fine Arts Department (CUT) to the forefront of contemporary art research and practice, locally, regionally and internationally.
Socially Engaged Art
The Socially engaged Art workshop at our research center at Ayios Ioannis Pitsilias invited children and teenagers from local communities to participate in a one-day workshop with Cut Fine Arts Students and Staff.
CUT Fine Arts Adamantios Diamantis Research Center, Ayios Theodoros Pitsilias
Artistic meeting in the Cyprus mountains: Adamantios Diamantis
The Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and the Community of Agios Theodoros Pitsilias have signed an Agreement of Cooperation on Sunday, June 5th at the Museum of Rural Life of the Community, at 11 a.m.
Formerly Intimate Spaces, Contemporary Makers of Culture: The Country House of Adamantios Diamantis
Within the framework of the project Rural Platforms / Places for Co-creation and Reconnection, the research laboratory Cut Contemporary Fine Arts Lab of the Fine Arts Department of CUT organized a one-day International Symposium at the country residence of Adamantios Diamantis at Ayios Theodoros Pitsilias
Curating Cypriot Spaces /Site Specific Research Based Projects
This research-based project focuses on the resonance of Cypriot architectural and non-architectural spaces charged with the presence of those who once occupied them and the defunct activities that characterized them. It aims to:
- Explore loss and abandonment, in relation to the history of haunted and ruined spaces like for example deserted mines (Kalavasos) and old hospitals (Kyperounda), or once glamorous interiors like the forest Park Hotel in Platres.
- Question how heterotopic spaces like the hospital or the hotel can convey their history and affectivity to the viewer through an artistic visceral, historical and psychological engagement with these spaces.
Healing Spaces (Research Project /Upcoming Exhibition)
This research-based project focuses on the resonance of Cypriot architectural and non-architectural spaces charged with the presence of those who once occupied them and the defunct activities that characterized them.
Under_Mining
Under|Mining is a ground-breaking, international group exhibition at various locations at the village of Kalavasos, Larnaca. The multisite art exhibition addresses for the first time through a contemporary art perspective the history, memory, sociocultural and environmental impact of mining in Cyprus.
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us
The exhibition, which is in the form of artistic interventions in the space of the historic Forest Park Hotel in Platres, by the staff of the department of Fine Arts at TEPAK and organized by Klitsa Antoniou, brings together the prolific creativity of the artists who teach at the department and the richness of the long history of the hotel.
Poetry and Performance: Embodied Poetic Experience
This scholarly and practice-based project aims to:
- Address the role of sensorial experience, movement, sound and visual practice both in the making and sharing of contemporary poetry as ‘common’ experience, responsive to the specific (in this case Cypriot) cultural context.
- Focus on the live performance of print, sound and digital poetry and seeks to analyze the role of the body, of both performer and spectator in experiencing poetry.
- Explore creative approaches to collecting information on the way both poets/performers and audience engage with poetry events and on how they may perceive themselves as part of a cultural community.
- Constitute a key step in understanding the way performance as an embodied poetic experience contributes to (re)defining poetry’s social function.
An hour of Poetry
A poetry performance with invited poets and artists. A collaboration with Cut Students Life office. Invited poets Avgi Lilly, Pambos Kouzalis, Giorgos Christodoulides, Lilly Michaelidou, Filippos Tsitsopoulos and Yiorgos Kalozois. Presented by Nicky Pavlou
Library Project
The Library Project is an annual curatorial endeavor, which takes place at the historic building of the Municipal University Library in Limassol which houses the local archives.
The project aims to:
- Offer an experimental artistic and curatorial laboratory.
- Attract prominent visual artists from Cyprus and abroad.
- Enhance the interaction between contemporary art practices and the Cypriot society, culture and history through the use of the rich archival material that our housed in the library.
- Achieve this by foregrounding and marrying the multimedia nature of contemporary art with historical, archival material in order to explore old and emerging socio-political issues of our times.
Evelyn Anastasiou: Rejected Sounds of the Magic Flute
The artist’s long research gained her access to the Berlin State Library [Staatliche Bibliothek zu Berlin] which houses the original notation of The Magic Flute.
Filippos Tsitsopoulos: What you kill, you should also love
On Saturday, November 9, at 19.30, at the Municipal University Library, Tsitsopoulos performed the action entitled What you kill, you should also love; an enigmatic phrase borrowed (and slightly paraphrased) from the emblematic text of the German playwright and poet Heiner Müller, The Hamlet Machine (1977).
Collaborative Art Project
This international practice-based project involves bringing together students/young artists with established artists to work as a team to create art.
It aims to:
- Promote collaborative methods of practice which prioritize process over object production and technical proficiency, as well as social engagement and community over artistic autonomy.
- Expand public engagement through art and activism by facilitating wider participation thus enriching its contribution to society.
- Provide participants/students with a "toolbox" of observing, recording and analyzing the work of the invited visual artists, which they will be able to use later in their own artistic process, and to familiarize them with experimental artistic interventions of a collaborative nature.
Geert Vermeire: Walking Arts 2.0
Walking as an art practice found momentum in the 1960ies, in the wake of performance arts and in the emerging sound arts and it established itself as well as a visual art discipline in the 1970s.
Maria Loizidou: Do I really believe it?
The artist collaborated with the Department by offering special laboratory courses in order to create a work of participatory art with the students. Within the framework of the Collaborative art Poject, the artist has given a lecture under the title "Do I really believe it?", in which she presented a retrospective of her personal artistic experience.
Dr Natacha Antão Moutinho: Lecture and Workshop
The third guest is Dr Natacha Antão Moutinho, Professor of Drawing at Minho University in Guimaraes, Portugal.
Art Talk Society
Artists and art historians are invited to give informal lectures, talks, or other presentations focused on their research interests. These talks highlight important moments in the history of art by art theorists and philosophers and the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers. The series is motivated both by an in-depth focus on individual artists and a drive to facilitate new ideas and discourse across disciplines and generations.
Multimedia and Space in Contemporary Theatre
George Lazoglou / Multimedia and Space in Contemporary Theatre
Social Engaged Art Practices and Participatory Art
Adonis Volanakis / Social Engaged Art Practices and Participatory Art
The mask and the Unveiled
Filippos Tsitsopoulos / The mask and the Unveiled
Trauma, Postmemory and Artistic Production
Gabriel Koureas / Trauma, Postmemory and Artistic Production
Introduction to the History and Theory of Cinema
Konstantinos Argianas / Introduction to the History and Theory of Cinema: Between German Expressionist Cinema and Soviet Montage Theory
Theaster Gates - Art within the Community - Community within art
Melita Couta / Theaster Gates - Art within the Community - Community within art
The Controversy of Empathy in the Visual and Performative Arts
Klitsa Antoniou /The Controversy of Empathy in the Visual and Performative Arts
Curatorial Academy Project
The international theory and practice-based project Curatorial Academy Project involves intensive curatorial workshops featuring international guest speakers from various institutions. The international curatorial academy project focuses on international guests from various organizations and universities, with a remarkable presence in this field. Curatorial Academy Projects will offer participants a program of lectures and workshops and will also be able to present their curatorial ideas or their own artwork and receive feedback from invited speakers.
It will prepare participants to expand the role of curators, engaging audiences more effectively by proposing alternative models of exhibition-making, institution-building, and social justice through art. A key objective of the project is to advance and establish a professional discourse, thereby encouraging a continuous evaluation of one's own and other's curatorial practice.
Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio: Transversal approach: connections, exchanges, and interactions
A Lecture by Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio on his professional itinerary, presenting different projects in the academic, curatorial, and artistic sphere.
Curatorial Academy Project II
The artist as catalyst and the citizen as co-creator: alternative practices, non-formal education, community building.