Nine members of the international interdisciplinary research group, the Creative Centre for Fluid Territories’ (CCFT) contributed to Cyprus Buffer Fringe 2020, through a collaborative project: Fluid Territories – Nomadic on-line dialogue: Belonging & Displacement. This took two forms: an online exhibition created through a unique dialogical and negotiated creative exchange, between internationally dispersed contributors, on-line via weekly meetings over a period of 2 months, disseminated within a dedicated web portal in the public domain (Research Catalogue); and working with invited, interdisciplinary voices to create a series of online, live, ‘Travelling Colloquia’ with invited participants (Oct-Nov 2020), engaging in a dialogue about place, belonging and displacement, refocused and highlighted in response to the unfolding conditions created from COV-19. All culminating in three events for Cyprus Buffer Fringe VII, 2020.

Building on our contribution to Cyprus Buffer Fringe 2019, ‘The Urban Glenti’ [Urban Feast], CCFT members, along with invited other voices, creative practitioners, educators and cultural producers contributed, shared, expanded and explored the Cyprus Buffer Fringe 2020’s theme of ‘Belonging and Displacement’ with the Research Catalogue acting as a container of dialectic thoughts, and the live events that formed part of the Buffer Fringe’s programme, a dynamic space of dialogue. The intention being that the whole practice-led and dialogical process be read as a series of inter-related ideas, critical positions and visual relationships, and as a durational response exploring the concepts of place, belonging and displacement.

CCFT Nomadic Online Dialogues (weekly throughout Oct-Dec 2020)

CCFT Travelling Colloquia with invited participants (Oct-Nov):
16 October 2020: Ellada Evangelou of the Home4Cooperation (NGO focused on intercommunal dialogue)
30 October 2020: Alex Hale, Archaeologist, Edinburgh on ‘Archaeology of the Contemporary’.
6 November 2020: Vasilis Vasiliou, Street/Graffiti Artist working either side of the Buffer Zone in Nicosia, Yiannis Toumazis, Director of NIMAC, research based in abandoned architectural space of Famagusta, and Alex Hale, Archaeologist.
20 November 2020: Jenny Brownrigg, Director of Exhibitions, GSA. ‘Research Displacement’: discussing her research into the photographs of Margaret Fay Shaw based on Canna, and her connections with Cyprus.
27 November 2020.: with Dr Anastasia Shesterinina, Dept of Politics & International Relations, University of Sheffield, ‘Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective identities and war in Abkhazia .

Buffer Fringe VII 2020 Events – Contributions and Responses to CCFT Nomadic online dialogues:
3 December 2020:
Anastasia Shesterinina
Despo Pasia (Museum Educator based in Cyprus)
Vasilis Vasiliou
Alex Hale

5 December:
Helen Angell-Preece (PhD researcher, Glasgow School of Art)
Noah Rose (PhD researcher, Glasgow School of Art)
Emily Gray (PhD researcher, Nottingham Trent)
Andrew Lock (PhD researcher, University of Bergen)

6 December:
Ellada Evangelou
Catherine van Olden
Maria Varanakkidou
Monica Day
Carmen Olaechea
Home4Cooperation
Anastasia Shesterinina