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CYPRUS PAVILION AT VENICE BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE 2018
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OPEN CALL FOR ARCHITECTS, ARTISTS & NGOs

Veronika Antoniou, Yiorgos Hadjichristou and Alessandra Swiny have been chosen to represent Cyprus as the Curators of the Cyprus Pavilion with their project I Am Where You Are_ at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2018 from May 26th to November 25th 2018.

I Am Where You Are is a platform for communication. By highlighting, questioning and then deconstructing sets of binaries, key to cultural perceptions in and about Cyprus, we disengage from convention. Multiplicities, found in-between these binaries, “built_unbuilt, tradition_modernity, Island of Love_place of conflict, immigration_local identity”, are revealed in the pavilion, allowing unexpected experiences to be celebrated.

Architecture is the mediator and the lens used to investigate these often-unnoticed conditions. We focus on the importance of the architectural section.

The Pavilion show-cases significant contemporary innovative projects, and incorporates important ancient and vernacular works. We collapse notions of time/space and presence/non-presence, utilizing digital and interactive means.
The physicality of the body of the visitor dissolves, as it is enveloped in a wearable apparatus and immersed into a moving-scape of simultaneous projections.

I Am Where You Are, because we are constantly moving and shifting, both physically and digitally. We continuously transform, therefore, ‘I encompass some of what you are and you encompass some of what I am’. The Cyprus Pavilion becomes a transmitter and a receiver: within the exhibit, visitors interact with people in Cyprus and are transported virtually in space and time into the Cypriot context.

Different languages, customs, cultures etiquette and built forms we experience on a daily basis mix and merge. They bring into focus that which differentiates, connects and binds us together.

“We call upon voices of resistance.

We challenge the globalization of the built environment.

We accentuate the crafting of humanitarian constructed fragments.

We augment the simplicities of everyday rituals.

We note the synergy of the untouched and the harnessed environment.

We record an interwoven scenography of nature and the human condition.”

Curators of the Cyprus Pavilion

OPEN CALLS ADDRESSED TO ARCHITECTS, ARTISTS & NGOs

interested in sending video and image material that will be presented within the Cyprus Pavilion upcoming exhibition.

Deadline for submission:23.03.2018Announcement of selected projects: 11.04.2018

Click on the following links to read the guidelines:

• OPEN CALL FOR ARCHITECTS
• OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & NGOs