Eco Art is an ambitious project with a cultural and ecological vision for Cyprus and Europe which consists of two major activities: A symposium and an Art exhibition. It is a project that fosters and empowers the philosophy of the Open Air Factory of Pafos 2017.
Location:
Akamas
Pafos, Cyprus
Cost: Free
Website: www.pafos2017.eu
The ecology debate, already at the heart of radical trends which from the second half of the 1960s saw a series of artists in different regional contexts, developing a multiplicity of ephemeral practices (performative and conceptual) as direct actions taking place, is just one of the project’s facets. Under the subtitle: Paths on Common Ground – Works in situ, visual artists together with performers, organizers and curators will be working together thus having the possibility to interact with each other and with the audience and create links between art and nature.
The beauty of the natural areas and the rapidly changing urban settings, along with the changing local and international conditions ranging from migration and identity politics to technology and the perception of the arts today, will provide a rich starting point for self-reflection and also a terrain for a new sense of things, of people, of human relationships, of goals and aspirations in art.
Akamas natural areas and communities will host the participating artists from Cyprus and Europe and bring their art into the open and small villages, making possible a cultural dialogue between the public and the artists. At the same time Eco Art will highlight the most crucial contemporary theoretical issues concerning the relationship between art and nature and the complexity of living bodies, to propose new ways of discovering the territory. Eco Art will take place in April 2017 and the exhibition will be open from the 23rd of April (opening) until the end of August 2017. The curator of the project Thouli Misirloglou, invited visual artists Costis Velonis, Stavros Panayiotakis, Hermann Pitz, Mimmo Rubino, Rinos Stefani, Marinos Tsaggarakis, Horst Weierstall, and performers Marios Hadjiprokopiou, Antonis Antoniou and Anna Tzakou. Susan Vargas, visual artist, is the assistant curator and Daniella Pistenti Mouyiannou is the coordinator of the project.
From Monday, May 01, 2017
To Wednesday, August 30, 2017
