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” (ND)
NOMADIC DIALOGUE 1 – Difficult histories, MARCH 2018
Agios Sozomenos, Cyprus - The place of barley
In collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nicosia, CCFT initiated a series of creative interventions and events within the ruined village of Agios Sozomenos and specific sites in Nicosia. Given the historic significance of the area, and the village’s more recent complex history, leading to its abandonment, along with its proximity to the UN Demilitarised Buffer Zone, it provided powerful and poignant conditions for the inquiry into CCFTs research questions.
NOMADIC DIALOGUE 2 – Formulation of national narratives, NOVEMBER 2018
Televåg, Norway - A sense of self
In collaboration with the University of Bergen, Faculty of Art Music and Design and The North Sea Maritime Museum, CCFT responded to the layered history of Telavåg, Norway, questioning the relation between memory, place, and the contructed self.
