Between 24-25 March 2018 members of CCFT along with Greek and Turkish Cypriot artists, architects, activists and academics engaged in a series of creative interventions and events within the abandoned village of Ayios Sozomenos and the surrounding area.
Ayios Sozomenos lies in the Republic of Cyprus, just a few kilometers south of the UN brokered demilitarized Buffer Zone, and some 30 kilometers east of the City of Nicosia. Initial interests regarding the locality resulted from fieldwork undertaken by CCFT, and related researches made by architecture students (University of Nicosia) in the area in 2016.
Given the historic significance of the area (it has proved a rich source of archaeological remains), the village's more recent political history (its abandonment its in 1964 and present proximity to the UN Buffer Zone (established in late 1974)), and its current status as an environmental resource it provided a powerful, multi-layered and poignant location and focus for creative inter-communal and ecological research.
Two works were made by Susan Brind & Jim Harold for this exhibition which spread across two villages:
- 'Woodlands, Charcoal and Copper', Agios Sozomenos, 2018 (Site specific sculptural installation).
- 'One River – Two Walks: Potamia-Kirklar', Potamia, 2018 (site specific text installation and performed reading).
Place making, place identity, practice-led research, Cyprus Buffer Zone, Landscape, CCFT
Brind, Susan, Harold, Jim, Ataman, Justyna, Hadjichristou, Yiorgos, Hadjisoteriou, Maria, Petrou, Angela, Higgins, Duncan, Kallis, Kyriakos, Kanay, Serap, Lien, Linda, Locke, Andrew, McCowan, Duncan, McMullan, Shauna, Peace2, Peace, Philipppou, Nikos, Sandbourg, Johan, Souto, Ana, Urban, Gorillas and Floridou, Sevina
British High Commission, Embajada de Espana en Nicosia, The Erasmus Programme, EU, Glasgow School of Art, RDF Fund, Institute Cervantes, Nicosia, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Potamia Village, Cyprus, University of Bergen, Norway, University of Nicosia, Urban Gorillas, Nicosia
