Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival 2020/21

The Goethe-Institut looks forward to cooperating with the Buffer Fringe Performance Arts Festival (BFPAF) 2020/21. The Buffer Fringe Festival showcases new and experimental work by local and international artists, challenges physical and artistic barriers, and creates opportunities for artists to meet and exchange ideas. The Festival was initially developed by the Home for Cooperation team in 2014, aiming to create a platform for Cypriot artists to perform their work in a spirit of multiculturalism and peaceful coexistence.

Buffer Fringe is committed to creating a fertile network through which local and international artists as well as audiences can exchange and develop ideas. In order to achieve this, Buffer Fringe created an online platform through which artists will publish information about their work and document their process during the months leading up to the festival in December 2020.

This year, the theme of Buffer Fringe is a phenomenon as old as humanity itself: Displacement. The performances explore why this human activity is contested, the relationship between migration, mobility and displacement and how different people experience the displacement of themselves, their ideas and their practices.

In light of an ever increasing need for digitized documentation in the performing arts due to COVID-19, the platform hopes to introduce more physically distant methods of sharing and increase accessibility to the works and the festival as a whole.