Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity
Festival|At the WIP Arts & Technology festival
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CYENS, Nicosia
- Price Free admission
The Goethe-Institut Cyprus is participating at the third edition of WIP Arts & Technology festival, organised by CYENS Centre of Excellence, where it will be exhibiting the transnational project Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity and the Cypriot participation titled Take Us to the Water.
The atlas examines questions regarding our approach to water, the notion of water as a habitat, environmental pollution and disasters in the sea. What is our past and present relationship to water and what can be expected for the future? How will flora and fauna and the coastlines change, and what will that do to us? How does water scarcity affect our ability to coexist? The atlas enables the sharing of unexpected approaches and invites dialogue about an element that is vital to all of us.
In Take Us to the Water the present’s status of Cyprus as a contested arena of politics and memory takes on the textures of new possibilities. Landscapes, infrastructures, embodied experiences and non-human agents interlink in open-ended narratives about water and its transits, seen as both material and metaphor for exploring forms of belonging and exclusion. The suggestiveness of liquidity becomes a device for producing mappings of nuanced networks and flows, exploring the complex interconnections between Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean context.
With the general theme, Modes of Creation, the festival celebrates the complex intersections of art & technology and showcases modes by which human ingenuity is nurtured, shaped, and amplified via technology; ultimately it comes to reveal how we engage with, question, and reimagine our present and future realities.
About Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity
Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity is an ongoing project of interactive maps, regarding climate change’s effect on water problems around the Mediterranean.The atlas examines questions regarding our approach to water, the notion of water as a habitat, environmental pollution and disasters in the sea. What is our past and present relationship to water and what can be expected for the future? How will flora and fauna and the coastlines change, and what will that do to us? How does water scarcity affect our ability to coexist? The atlas enables the sharing of unexpected approaches and invites dialogue about an element that is vital to all of us.
From the curatorial statement about the Cypriot participation Take Us to the Water
In Take Us to the Water the present’s status of Cyprus as a contested arena of politics and memory takes on the textures of new possibilities. Landscapes, infrastructures, embodied experiences and non-human agents interlink in open-ended narratives about water and its transits, seen as both material and metaphor for exploring forms of belonging and exclusion. The suggestiveness of liquidity becomes a device for producing mappings of nuanced networks and flows, exploring the complex interconnections between Cyprus and the wider Mediterranean context. About WIP Arts & Technology festival
WIP (Work in Progress) Festival is an ever-evolving series of activities and exhibitions focused on arts & technology synergies. Organized by CYENS Centre of Excellence together with esteemed collaborators, the festival is breaking new ground in the east Mediterranean, aiming to become an annual reference point for scientists and creatives experimenting at the intersection of Arts, Science and Technology.With the general theme, Modes of Creation, the festival celebrates the complex intersections of art & technology and showcases modes by which human ingenuity is nurtured, shaped, and amplified via technology; ultimately it comes to reveal how we engage with, question, and reimagine our present and future realities.
Location
CYENS
23 Dimarchou Lellou Demetriadi Square
1016 Nicosia
Cyprus
23 Dimarchou Lellou Demetriadi Square
1016 Nicosia
Cyprus