Collaborations & Outreach
October 2021
Buffer Fringe Festival, Nicosia
Alongside creative team:
twenty-three (artist) & Andreas Economides (sound producer)
The Serpent’s Egg Deconstruction
This co-created experimental art project situated within public space focused on immigration by exploring immigrant visual languages and narratives through an interactive sound-board. The project drew on inspiration from Bergman’s movie The Serpent’s Egg (1977) and aimed to raise questions about practices of displacement and human agency in the current socio-political situation in Cyprus.
2021
Netkast Zone Podcast
The Joy of Pain in Running and Triathlon Communities
Gender and Power Festival
The aim of the festival is to discuss and elaborate on the ways genders, in their intersections with multiple sociopolitical and cultural categories of difference, interact in myriad ways and arbitrarily produce systemic inequalities. Discussion focus on women’s agency, reproductive justice, lesbian desire, and queer Cypriot art.
Xaritini Kyriakou & Elena Vasiliouperformative lecture in relation to the ambiguities and the (in)visibility of female and lesbian desire at Genders and Power Festival.
Autonomous reading group: Psychoanalysis and the Political
The point of departure of this collaborative reading group was to explore the possibilities in reading psychoanalytic texts not as a therapeutic technique but as a school of thought. Discussing classic texts of Freud and Lacan in relation with contemporary political issues.
2006 - 2007
ARTos Foundation: Program “ACT”, Nicosia
ARTos Foundation
A European funded program to increase the participation of people with mental illness in the arts. Organising the first art exhibition in Cyprus with people with mental illnesses from the residential house Ariadni Cultural Center Myloi, Nicosia.