The Creative Centre for Fluid Territories (CCFT) - is a group of artists, architects, designers and cultural theorists from England, Scotland, Norway and Cyprus whose practices, individually (and collectively), seek to consider the role of artistic research in shaping the legacies of place within the contemporary social landscape.

Through the lens of each other’s research and evolving relationships, a collective work platform has emerged through trust and dialogue. CCFT’s approach focuses on practice-based research methods including; painting, drawing, photography, video, sound, sculpture, text performances, publication, events/exhibition, on site installations, design communication, social design, architecture, interventions and spatial practices that are engaged in constructing and questioning narratives of place making, place meaning and the constructed self.

CCFT’s research is constituted through the methodology of travelling colloquia carried out in specific cases for study. These cases for study are constructed as interwoven, overlapping and interrelated meetings, investigations and dissemination points, designated as “Nomadic Dialogues”.

Creative Centre for Fluid Territories: People, Places, Processes - Colloquium was hosted by the Department of Architecture (ARC), University of Nicosia, as means of examining CCFT's research questions through practice:

– In what ways does a nomadic and dialogic encounter with other place(s) deepen cultural, philosophical and political understanding?

– How can the complex histories held in the landscapes of places be visually represented?

– Can creative practices transform those places or our perception of them?

– Might art practice/works of art provide a neutral reflective space that is other to the thing/place itself, and if so how does this contribute to our understanding of place?

The Colloquium accompanied an exhibition of the same title.

The paper for the Colloquium took the form of extracts from the series, 'Coffee Letters'. Over a number of years, the artists Susan Brind & Jim Harold have been collaborating on an artwork that takes the form of a series of letters that reference events witnessed since the turn of the 20th Century. They are written by an anonymous ‘I’, from different years and various locations, to an anonymous ‘You’, a beloved whose location is unknown. These letters reveal a tender relation reaching across continents. For this iteration of the work, a selection of texts, written from different locations within Cyprus: both North (Turkish)and South (Greek), were delivered by means of a performance/reading by Susan Brind.