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Programme
Respublika!: A Cypriot community media arts festival
Curated by Nico Carpentier
http://respublika.neme.org/
Respublika! combines an arts festival and exhibitions to translate the
principles of community media in creative practice, in order to reflect
on media, democracy and its participatory component, to analyze the
(de)centralisation of power in contemporary societies, and to showcase
art projects that use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects,
working with, and empowering members of one or more communities.
Respublika! is multi-sited and multi-genre. It aims to tap into the
creative reservoirs of community media, civil society organisations and
social collectives (and their members); but also of artists that are
committed to the basic principles of participatory community communication.
Respublika! incorporates art projects that relate to (at least) one of
the following two objectives:
-to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component,
analysing the (de)centralisation of power in contemporary societies,
-to use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with,
and empowering members of one or more communities.
Respublika! consists out of two main exhibitions, a series of seminars
and a festival. The programme is below.
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Exhibitions:
http://respublika.neme.org/
1/ Open Community – Open Networks (4 November 2017 to 2 December 2017)
at NeMe in Limassol, Cyprus
2/ Participation Matters (2 December 2017 to 19 January 2018) at NeMe in
Limassol, Cyprus
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Upcoming seminars:
http://respublika.neme.org/seminars/
24.11.2017, 18.30-20.30
Community media, Community art production and Democratic knowledge
*Vuk Ćosić (SI) – From Nettime via Syndicate to 7-11
*Pascal Gielen (BE) – How can artists stay autonomous, and keep their
creativity alive in the contemporary society?
*Helen Hahmann (DE) – Highjacking Radio Art. Artistic practice in
Community Radio
*Nicos Trimiklonitis (CY) – Beyond austerity citizenship and
nationalistic communalism in Cypriot ‘community media’: social media,
digitalities and emancipation – towards a mobile commons
*Moderator: Nico Carpentier (BE/SE)
13.01.2018, 18:30 -21:00
Participation, Active Citizenship and Community Media
*Bart Cammaerts (BE) – Power and Pre-Figurative Politics within the
Progressive Left
*Nico Carpentier (BE/SE) – The Discursive-Material Knot, Participation
and Community Media Theory
*Vaia Doudaki (GR/SE) – Street Papers as Spaces of Participation and
Inclusion
*Hazal Yolga (CY) – Speaking the Unspoken: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses
Moderator: Yiannis Christidis (CY)
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Upcoming Festival events:
http://respublika.neme.org/festival/
25.11.2017, 10:00-15:00
Workshop Motivwv1.1
by George Kyrou
Upcycling workshops allow for the participation in the construction of
new transnational uniforms, using (parts of) the many uniforms that are
present on the island as raw materials. If you have old uniforms to
share, bring them.
CCMC, Ledra Palace Buffer Zone Crossing (black gate next to Ledra
Palace), Nicosia
09.12.2017, 15:50-16:30
Performance WolFMoon
by Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman and The Cypriot Howling Team
Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman organise howling sessions as means to
reflect about connection, participation, individuality, community and
respect. Howling is about speaking and listening. Join the Cyprus
Howling Team for a new howling session outside the Ledra Palace in the
Buffer Zone.
Outside Ledra Palace, Buffer Zone, Nicosia
09.12.2017, 10:00-20:00
Performance What Is It About?!
by Elena Volina and Mathieu Devavry
The What Is It About?! performances invite participants to listen to a
selection of historical sound fragments, which are always open to a
multitude of interpretations. Through painting, participants can then
express their responses and interpretations.
Faneromeni Square, Nicosia
09.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration.
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of
performativity.
Heroes' Square (Plateia Iroon), Limassol
10.12.2017, 10:00-20:00
Performance What Is It About?!
by Elena Volina and Mathieu Devavry
The What Is It About?! performances invite participants to listen to a
selection of historical sound fragments, which are always open to a
multitude of interpretations. Through painting, participants can then
express their responses and interpretations.
Hoi Polloi Square / Arasta Square (next to Hoi Polloi), Nicosia
10.12.2017, 19:00-20:30
Screening The Party of the Housing Dream
by Peter Snowden and the Groupe ALARM
The Party of the Housing Dream is a film about a series of characters
who have left their homeland, or their home town, spend their days and
nights traversing the city of Brussels, searching for somewhere to live.
Yet despite their best attempts, they repeatedly find themselves back
where they started - humiliated, cheated, outside, and alone. Gradually,
the idea emerges that the only solution to their problems is to take
democracy seriously and launch their own political party. Little do they
suspect where their dream will lead them.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus
10.12.2017, 21:00-21:40
Performance Community Spectradio
by Yiannis Christidis, Markos Souropetsis & Co.
The Community Spectradio performance consists out of guitar-electronics
accompanied by a live video‐art composition. An electroacoustic hue
created by guitar improvisations is combined with fragments of
radio‐recordings, made by producers of Cut‐Radio, the Community Radio of
the Cyprus University of Technology.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus
11.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration.
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of
performativity.
Heroes' Square (Plateia Iroon), Limassol
11.12.2017-31.01-2018
9:00-20:00 (daily)
Exhibition Life:Moving
by Briony Campbell and the Life:Moving participants and project team
Life:Moving is an exhibition of films made by people affected by
terminal illness as part of a collaborative participatory and
research-based Arts project. Over six months, through workshops and home
visits, participants from John Taylor Hospice in Birmingham were given
practical and critical training and support to develop and co-create
their films.
Materia, Athalassis 41, Latsia, Nicosia
12.12.2017, 17:45-20:45
Workshop Life:Moving
by Michele Aaron and Briony Campbell
The workshop, with Michele Aaron and Briony Campbell, deals with the
issues raised by the Life:Moving installation/project, which consists
out of films made by people affected by terminal illness. Issues at
stake are, among others, participation, power, and the representation of
living and dying.
Materia, Athalassis 41, Latsia, Nicosia
13.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration.
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of
performativity.
Phaneromeni Square, Nicosia
13.12.2017, 19:30-20:30
Performance / Lecture All Sources Are Broken
by Labor Neunzehn
The lecture-performance focuses on one dimension of the All Sources Are
Broken project, namely hypertextuality, books, archive, and the
online/offline. The performance consists out of a projection of two
video streams combined with the live voice-over of the Labor Neunzehn
artists.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus
14.12.2017, 19:30-20:30
Artist's Talk Poetry Route River Flows
by Jacomien den Boer and Loes Witteveen
Two members of the River Flows team present their participatory project,
which empowered international students to paint mono-types and write
poems inspired by the 'De Koppenwaard' location on the IJssel river
bank, expressing a sense of place, highlighting the cultural heritage of
the former brick factory and articulating the value of the area's
natural resources.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus
15.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration.
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of
performativity.
Phaneromeni Square, Nicosia
15.12.2017, 20:00-22:00
Screening It's Good to Know
by Join2Media
It's Good to Know is a video documentary, which has 3 axes-themes:
1. The right of access to information (the "right to know"), a theme
that explores the status of this fundamental human right in Cyprus, from
the media and the community/civil society/(active) citizenship perspectives;
2. Peace journalism, showing the work done on/in PJ in Cyprus, and how
it relates to the issues of missing persons, human rights, migration and
discrimination in media practices, etc.;
3. Media ethics, and the role of media, community media and an active
media literate community.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus
16.12.2017, 21:00-23:00
Broadcast / Performance Open Mic - a Community Radio Experiment
by CCMC/MYCYradio
The Illuminated Night Ride tour takes cyclists through the old town of
Nicosia, with the light-decorated and sound-blasting MYCYradio bicycle
taking the lead. The light riders, who participate in the pack, will
record the soundscape and the reactions of the public. The starting
point is CCMC/MYCYradio in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone. Bring your
bicycle and your lights.
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Respublika! is made possible by the kind funding of the Cultural
Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Medochemie,
and Sheila Pinkel. Valuable support has been received from CCMC, the
Cypriot Community Media Research Programme of Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB), and the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University.
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