Saturday, 2 February 2013
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Public Works
Public Works Chora is a platform initiated by Evi Tselika and Demetris Taliotis which aims to reflect and reconfigure the cultural understandings of the Cypriot notion of public space and the engagement with it, through creative and theoretical pathways.
In the bi-polar centre of Nicosia the legacies of the C20th and the transformations of the C21st are challenging this divided city to introspection, vis-a-vis its claims to an international vocabulary, however ignored, and its architectonic steps forward. Moving on from the modernist legacy of challenging systems of knowledge through aesthetic experiences, art forms have developed into the manifestations of littoral, conversational or dialogue based public art. A role that art can assume is to challenge us to think of our world anew and trigger thought on our sense of community. How does Nicosia's fragmented sense of community respond to such developments? How are we – art practitioners, cultural producers, architects, historians, theorists - responsible in shaping that community and how visual language is used to interact not only with a highly charged public space but also with the public that inhabits that space?
In the bi-polar centre of Nicosia the legacies of the C20th and the transformations of the C21st are challenging this divided city to introspection, vis-a-vis its claims to an international vocabulary, however ignored, and its architectonic steps forward. Moving on from the modernist legacy of challenging systems of knowledge through aesthetic experiences, art forms have developed into the manifestations of littoral, conversational or dialogue based public art. A role that art can assume is to challenge us to think of our world anew and trigger thought on our sense of community. How does Nicosia's fragmented sense of community respond to such developments? How are we – art practitioners, cultural producers, architects, historians, theorists - responsible in shaping that community and how visual language is used to interact not only with a highly charged public space but also with the public that inhabits that space?