Public Works Program-1, 2 & 3 July 2010

Public Works will be held at various locations within the public space of Nicosia, Cyprus

2 & 3 July 2010
Apotheke Contemporary Arts: http://www.apothekecontemporaryarts.com/

Contact information Evi Tselika:
e_tselika@hotmail.com
+447973906568/ +35797611269

Contact information Demetris Taliotis:
info@apothekecontemporaryarts.com
+447788727571 / +35799764816


Thursday, 1 July 2010

17:00- 19:00
Parking lot turned to ad hoc playground
Public Works meets Hope for Peace, Office for Children’s Rights
Drawings of young people using the theme of the old city that will have been turned to large stickers will be displayed throughout the city, but particularly at the location of the workshop. This will be accompanied by exhibits from the bi-communal arts workshops that are lead by the NGO HFC-OCR.
This will act as an ad hoc playground including a 3 meter canvas that will be set up so that members of the public can spray paint messages to the city.
Young people will be welcome to join and draw different pictures based upon emblematic images of the old city. Some of these images will then be turned to T-shirts and given back to participants. This will be held right behind Ermou bar at 261 Ermou street.
Artist leading Workshop: Evi Tselika
Location 1



Friday, 2 July 2010

18:30
Talking of Public Art
Talk on Public Art in the context of Cyprus by Christina Lambrou outside the Archbishopry where the Big Mac used to reside


20:00
Exhibition of Public Works
An exhibition exploring the notions of the divided city, the use of the highly charged public space both as political statements and artistic endeavors and how the element of social/ spatial engagement has been presented by creative practitioners


21:00
Street Party
A historically traceable mode of public engagement with the city that has attracted multiple reactions and has partly rekindled the public interest for the Old Town of Nicosia


24 hour Web radio experimentation by Antonis Antoniou launched at the street party. Starting time at 21:00


Saturday, 03 July 2010

10:00-11:00
Trading Places Physical Theatre Performance in the Municipal Market
Performance will take place by Dance Theatre United (Natalie Heller) & Nikoleta Verikiou


11:00- 12:30
A tour of stencils and graffiti and their importance as a form of visual communication and social engagement within the walled part of Lefkosia/Lefkosha, which will be conducted by researcher Pafsanias Karathanasis


14:00- Onwards
Video interactive installation
Encourage different publics to go into the gallery and talk to the camera about their relationship with Nicosia



Roundtable @ Cafe Berlin No 2(on border)

17:00- Evi Tselika- Introduction

17:15- Dr Gabriel Koureas- Nicosia: Memory, Place, Trauma

17:45- Dr Anna Grichting- Green Line Scapes. Nicosia's Dead Zone as a River of Memory.

18:15- Dr Cameron Cartiere- Public Art and Social Engagement in Contemporary Art

18:45- Pafsanias Karathanasis- Geographies of graffiti and street art in the old town of Lefkosia/ Lefkoşa

19:15- Demetris Taliotis- Analysis and presentation of artistic collaborative work in the Public space of Nicosia.

19:45- Sumer Erek- Presentation of the artist’s work in the Public space and how he uses social engagement

20:15- 21:00 Roundtable Discussion

The roundtable discussion will be available to hear on the Web Radio


Online Extension of Public Works
An IRC backchannel will be running during the talks. Visit the blog on the day for more details.
Chrystalleni Loizidou



Location 1: Young People’s Ad-hoc Playground, workshop and exhibition @ area behind Ermou Bar, Ermou 261
Location 2: Public Art Talk @ space outside Archbishopry
Location 3: Apotheke @ 23 Kleanthi Christofidi Street
Location 4: Physical Theatre Performance @ the Municipal Market at the Old Town Hall Square
Location 5: Meeting point for Graffiti and Stencil Tour @ the Municipal Market at the Old Town Hall Square
Location 6: Roundtable held @ Cafe Berlin No2- Lefkonos Street