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Group exhibition | symposium | workshop centered on the themes of "front page" and "headline news" in print and digital media.Participants include artists and cultural producers from the visual arts, from academic fields, and the media.
The Department of Fine Arts at the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) develops and organises the second part of the international investigative project FRONTPAGE in collaboration with the European Communication Institute (ECI), in partnership with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) and the open visual arts group AxionArt and the collaboration of the Video Art Festival Miden (Mηδέν). It is supported by various academic institutions, including Donau-Universität Krems (DUK). In Cyprus, the research project is curated and organised by assistant professor and visual artist Vicky Pericleous and [Ρε:Re] Speculative Fine Art Practices Lab (CUT), which she develops and coordinates, visual artist Andreas Savva (special teaching staff), and curatorial assistant, Rebecca Taki, student of the MA History and Theory of Art, (CUT), with the support and involvement of the Department of Fine Arts (CUT).
The FRONTPAGE project will unfold through a public symposium featuring esteemed academic speakers addressing topics relevant to the project, alongside the international FRONTPAGE exhibition at Limassol Municipal University Library, and a visual art workshop that engages academics from various fields and students from the Department of Fine Arts at CUT. The outcomes of the workshop will be presented in 2025 in Athens in an expanded exhibition featuring student work from the Athens and Thessaloniki Schools of Fine Arts, the University of West Attica (ΠΑ.Δ.Α.), the Department of Digital and Performing Arts of the University of Peloponnese, the Ionian University, as well as contributions from established artists.
*Symposium: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM, Limassol Municipal University Library.
Invited Speakers: Maria Efstathiou, Curator, General Director of the Center for Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Efi Kyprianidou, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts (CUT), Eva Marangaki, Visual Artist/Concept/Curator (AXIONART), George Markou, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts (CUT), Marios Nottas, Director of the European Communication Institute, ECI, Andreas Panayiotou, Associate Professor, Department of Phycology and Social Sciences, (Frederick University), Aspasia Papadima, Associate Professor, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (CUT), Vasiliki (Vicky) Triga, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Internet Studies (CUT), Julia Sysalova, Curator, Art Critic, and Communication in Art Educator.
*International Art Exhibition: November 20 – 29, 2024, Limassol Municipal University Library.
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, November 20, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Exhibition Hours: Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM.
Contact: 25-362155, 25-002211, Municipal Building, Arch. Kyprianou 23, 3036 Limassol.
Invited Artists | Cultural Producers:
George Gyzis (Greece), Eleni Zouni (Greece), Kyriakos Kallis (Cyprus), Yiannis Christidis, (Cyprus), Makis Faros (Greece), Nikos Kouroussis (Cyprus), Kyriakos Kousoulides (Cyprus), Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Nicolas Lambouris (Cyprus), Eva Maragaki (Greece), Demetris Neokleous (Cyprus), Omiros Panayides(Cyprus), Aspasia Papadima (Cyprus), Vicky Pericleous (Cyprus), Nikos Podias (Greece), Artemis Potamianou (Greece), Andreas Savva (Cyprus), Efi Savvides (Cyprus), Anneta Spanoudaki (Greece), Marios Spiliopoulos (Greece), Nicos Synnos (Cyprus), Panos Tsagaris (Greece), Kostas Tsolis (Greece), Hourig Torossian (Cyprus), Dimitra Chanioti (Greece), Savvas Christodoulides (Cyprus), Yioula Hatzigeorgiou (Cyprus), Horst Weierstall (Cyprus/Germany).
Video Art | Festival Miden: Sandra Araujo (Portugal), Katina Bitsicas (USA), Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran (Outlier Moving Pictures) (USA), Rodrigo Amarante Guerreiro Gomes (Portugal), Niki Kapokaki (Greece), Kristýna Kopřivová (Czech Republic),Smaragda Nitsopoulou (Greece), Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece), Bruno Pavić (Croatia), John O’Hare & Tom Phipps (UK), Guli Silberstein (UK), Kuesti Fraun & Andreas Uehlein (performer) (Germany), Martha Tsiara (Greece), Chris Tigra (Brazil), Jack Williams (Poland), Jody Zellen (USA).
*With the Participation of the Program MIXANITOUXRONOU (ΜΗΧΑΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ) (TIME MACHINE), produced by ERT, (broadcast/show based on research, documentaries, tributes, and interviews referencing history, culture, and society) | Creators: Journalists Christos Vassilopoulos and Dimitris Petropoulos (Greece) and video: Panagiotis Parnassas
*At the exhibition's opening, the documentary of the tv show MIXANITOUXRONOU, produced by ERT, 2023, will be presented, with the FRONTPAGE project as its subject. A guided tour by the project curatorial team will follow. The in situ performance "CRYME," 2024, a live dialogue of sound and image, between Giannis Christidis and Kyriakos Kousoulidis will be presented at 19:45.
*The new site-specific sculptural installation Odyssey II, 2024, by Nikos Kouroussis is presented at the garden of the library, as an expansion of Kouroussis’ work, Odyssey, presented in the Venice Biennale, 1990.
*In the context of the FRONTPAGE project and in collaboration with the Erasmus Office of the Cyprus University of Technology, Kristýna Kopřivová (Czech Republic), a filmmaker and researcher, presents Before the Storm, 2024, a short documentary video art. The screening will be followed by a talk from the author. Wednesday 27 November, 18:00, Tseriotis Building.
*Visual Arts Workshop: Thursday, November 21, 2024, at 10:30 a.m, Potamitis Building, CUT, Limassol.
Visual Development and Development of Concept & Content \ Lectures: Marios Nottas, Director of the European Communication Institute, ECI, Eva Maragaki, Visual Artist/Concept/Curator (AXIONART), Julia Sysalova, Curator, Art Critic, and Art Communication Educator, Vicky Pericleous, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts (CUT), Andreas Savva, Special Scientific Staff, Department of Fine Arts (CUT).
CURATORIAL TEXT FOR FRONTPAGE, November 20 – 29, 2024, Limassol Municipal University Library:
‘The 2nd sequential exhibition of FRONTPAGE project is presented at the Limassol Municipal University Library, and wishes to bring in both physical and conceptual proximity, ongoing investigations and negotiations of the cultural relationship of word and image. Through curatorial gestures and relational configurations that involve and develop contemporary interdisciplinary and intermedial formations -between and across multiple fields of knowledge-, the exhibition unfolds within the spaces of the Municipal University Library, taking the form of an expanded art installation.
This installation is conceived under the curatorial intention to examine and negotiate cultural dialectics of what we consider as news, coming from the field of journalism and the event of the news, itself. The event itself, could, therefore, be re-interpreted and potentially re-invented in the Arts. The exhibition is developed as a conceptual and visual choreography throughout the library, where the visitor finds themselves in a new condition of study’.
Vicky Pericleous, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts (CUT).
Presentation/Concept Development of the FRONTPAGE PROJECT
‘The purpose of this project is to achieve an artistic and dynamic outcome through the interaction and collaboration of creators from both the visual arts and the broader fields of journalism and communication. Participants are inspired by front-page newspaper articles they choose and by prominent news from the media, both international and Greek print and digital press. These ‘front pages’ serve as a canvas for creation, commentary, expression, and positioning. The themes developed by the creators have a referential and conceptual approach regarding the transmission of the message, the concept of news, writing, text, and the power of words and images.
More specifically, the exhibition develops along five main axes: Timeliness - Communication - Image - Word - Memory and will include visual works from already recognized and upcoming visual artists, photographers, photo reporters, and video artists.
The FRONTPAGE has already been presented at the Melina Mercouri Cultural Center in Athens in 2023, and a new presentation is scheduled in Vienna that involves the participation of creators and communicators from Central Europe’
Curatorial Team for FRONTPAGE, CYPRUS
Eva Marangaki, Visual Artist/Concept/Curator (AXIONART)
Marios Nottas, Director of the European Communication Institute, ECI
Gioula Papadopoulou, Director of the Video Art Festival Miden.
Vicky Pericleous, Assistant Professor | [Ρε:Re] Speculative Fine Art Practices Lab, (CUT)
Andreas Savva Special Teaching Staff, (CUT)
Julia Sysalova, Curator, Art Critic, and Art Communication Educator
Rebecca Taki, Curatorial Assistant, MA Student|MA History and Theory of Art, (CUT)
Production: European Communication Institute E.C.I., AXIONART in partnership with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), AxionArt, Cyprus University of Technology, Festival, Miden,
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Limassol Municipal University Library, Οδός Κολοκοτρώνη 2, 3032 Λεμεσός, Κύπρος,Limassol, Cyprus
