[csaa-forum] Programme: Respublika! - A Cypriot community media arts festival

[Carpentier Nico]

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Programme

Respublika!: A Cypriot community media arts festival
Curated by Nico Carpentier
http://respublika.neme.org/


Respublika! combines an arts festival and exhibitions to translate the 
principles of community media in creative practice, in order to reflect 
on media, democracy and its participatory component, to analyze the 
(de)centralisation of power in contemporary societies, and to showcase 
art projects that use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, 
working with, and empowering members of one or more communities. 
Respublika! is multi-sited and multi-genre. It aims to tap into the 
creative reservoirs of community media, civil society organisations and 
social collectives (and their members); but also of artists that are 
committed to the basic principles of participatory community communication.

Respublika! incorporates art projects that relate to (at least) one of 
the following two objectives:
-to reflect on media, democracy and its participatory component, 
analysing the (de)centralisation of power in contemporary societies,
-to use participatory mechanisms to produce art projects, working with, 
and empowering members of one or more communities.

Respublika! consists out of two main exhibitions, a series of seminars 
and a festival. The programme is below.

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Exhibitions:
http://respublika.neme.org/

1/ Open Community – Open Networks (4 November 2017 to 2 December 2017) 
at NeMe in Limassol, Cyprus
2/ Participation Matters (2 December 2017 to 19 January 2018) at NeMe in 
Limassol, Cyprus

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Upcoming seminars:
http://respublika.neme.org/seminars/

24.11.2017, 18.30-20.30
Community media, Community art production and Democratic knowledge
*Vuk Ćosić (SI) – From Nettime via Syndicate to 7-11
*Pascal Gielen (BE) – How can artists stay autonomous, and keep their 
creativity alive in the contemporary society?
*Helen Hahmann (DE) – Highjacking Radio Art. Artistic practice in 
Community Radio
*Nicos Trimiklonitis (CY) – Beyond austerity citizenship and 
nationalistic communalism in Cypriot ‘community media’: social media, 
digitalities and emancipation – towards a mobile commons
*Moderator: Nico Carpentier (BE/SE)

13.01.2018, 18:30 -21:00
Participation, Active Citizenship and Community Media
*Bart Cammaerts (BE) – Power and Pre-Figurative Politics within the 
Progressive Left
*Nico Carpentier (BE/SE) – The Discursive-Material Knot, Participation 
and Community Media Theory
*Vaia Doudaki (GR/SE) – Street Papers as Spaces of Participation and 
Inclusion
*Hazal Yolga (CY) – Speaking the Unspoken: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses
Moderator: Yiannis Christidis (CY)

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Upcoming Festival events:
http://respublika.neme.org/festival/

25.11.2017, 10:00-15:00
Workshop Motivwv1.1
by George Kyrou
Upcycling workshops allow for the participation in the construction of 
new transnational uniforms, using (parts of) the many uniforms that are 
present on the island as raw materials. If you have old uniforms to 
share, bring them.
CCMC, Ledra Palace Buffer Zone Crossing (black gate next to Ledra 
Palace), Nicosia

09.12.2017, 15:50-16:30
Performance WolFMoon
by Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman and The Cypriot Howling Team
Irena Pivka and Brane Zorman organise howling sessions as means to 
reflect about connection, participation, individuality, community and 
respect. Howling is about speaking and listening. Join the Cyprus 
Howling Team for a new howling session outside the Ledra Palace in the 
Buffer Zone.
Outside Ledra Palace, Buffer Zone, Nicosia

09.12.2017, 10:00-20:00
Performance What Is It About?!
by Elena Volina and Mathieu Devavry
The What Is It About?! performances invite participants to listen to a 
selection of historical sound fragments, which are always open to a 
multitude of interpretations. Through painting, participants can then 
express their responses and interpretations.
Faneromeni Square, Nicosia

09.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body 
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration. 
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing 
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of 
performativity.
Heroes' Square (Plateia Iroon), Limassol

10.12.2017, 10:00-20:00
Performance What Is It About?!
by Elena Volina and Mathieu Devavry
The What Is It About?! performances invite participants to listen to a 
selection of historical sound fragments, which are always open to a 
multitude of interpretations. Through painting, participants can then 
express their responses and interpretations.
Hoi Polloi Square / Arasta Square (next to Hoi Polloi), Nicosia

10.12.2017, 19:00-20:30
Screening The Party of the Housing Dream
by Peter Snowden and the Groupe ALARM
The Party of the Housing Dream is a film about a series of characters 
who have left their homeland, or their home town, spend their days and 
nights traversing the city of Brussels, searching for somewhere to live. 
Yet despite their best attempts, they repeatedly find themselves back 
where they started - humiliated, cheated, outside, and alone. Gradually, 
the idea emerges that the only solution to their problems is to take 
democracy seriously and launch their own political party. Little do they 
suspect where their dream will lead them.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus

10.12.2017, 21:00-21:40
Performance Community Spectradio
by Yiannis Christidis, Markos Souropetsis & Co.
The Community Spectradio performance consists out of guitar-electronics 
accompanied by a live video‐art composition. An electroacoustic hue 
created by guitar improvisations is combined with fragments of 
radio‐recordings, made by producers of Cut‐Radio, the Community Radio of 
the Cyprus University of Technology.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus

11.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body 
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration. 
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing 
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of 
performativity.
Heroes' Square (Plateia Iroon), Limassol

11.12.2017-31.01-2018
9:00-20:00 (daily)
Exhibition Life:Moving
by Briony Campbell and the Life:Moving participants and project team
Life:Moving is an exhibition of films made by people affected by 
terminal illness as part of a collaborative participatory and 
research-based Arts project. Over six months, through workshops and home 
visits, participants from John Taylor Hospice in Birmingham were given 
practical and critical training and support to develop and co-create 
their films.
Materia, Athalassis 41, Latsia, Nicosia

12.12.2017, 17:45-20:45
Workshop Life:Moving
by Michele Aaron and Briony Campbell
The workshop, with Michele Aaron and Briony Campbell, deals with the 
issues raised by the Life:Moving installation/project, which consists 
out of films made by people affected by terminal illness. Issues at 
stake are, among others, participation, power, and the representation of 
living and dying.
Materia, Athalassis 41, Latsia, Nicosia

13.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body 
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration. 
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing 
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of 
performativity.
Phaneromeni Square, Nicosia

13.12.2017, 19:30-20:30
Performance / Lecture All Sources Are Broken
by Labor Neunzehn
The lecture-performance focuses on one dimension of the All Sources Are 
Broken project, namely hypertextuality, books, archive, and the 
online/offline. The performance consists out of a projection of two 
video streams combined with the live voice-over of the Labor Neunzehn 
artists.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus

14.12.2017, 19:30-20:30
Artist's Talk Poetry Route River Flows
by Jacomien den Boer and Loes Witteveen
Two members of the River Flows team present their participatory project, 
which empowered international students to paint mono-types and write 
poems inspired by the 'De Koppenwaard' location on the IJssel river 
bank, expressing a sense of place, highlighting the cultural heritage of 
the former brick factory and articulating the value of the area's 
natural resources.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus

15.12.2017, 15:00-17:00
Social Sculpture Performance/Workshop Unfolding-Unwrapped
by Johannes Gerard
The Social Sculpture performance revolves around four axes: body 
awareness, spatial awareness, creative awareness and collaboration. 
Participants will engage in physical movements and actions, changing 
roles, decision-making, the exchange of ideas and the interrogation of 
performativity.
Phaneromeni Square, Nicosia

15.12.2017, 20:00-22:00
Screening It's Good to Know
by Join2Media
It's Good to Know is a video documentary, which has 3 axes-themes:
1. The right of access to information (the "right to know"), a theme 
that explores the status of this fundamental human right in Cyprus, from 
the media and the community/civil society/(active) citizenship perspectives;
2. Peace journalism, showing the work done on/in PJ in Cyprus, and how 
it relates to the issues of missing persons, human rights, migration and 
discrimination in media practices, etc.;
3. Media ethics, and the role of media, community media and an active 
media literate community.
NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados & Enoseos streets, Limassol, Cyprus

16.12.2017, 21:00-23:00
Broadcast / Performance Open Mic - a Community Radio Experiment
by CCMC/MYCYradio
The Illuminated Night Ride tour takes cyclists through the old town of 
Nicosia, with the light-decorated and sound-blasting MYCYradio bicycle 
taking the lead. The light riders, who participate in the pack, will 
record the soundscape and the reactions of the public. The starting 
point is CCMC/MYCYradio in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone. Bring your 
bicycle and your lights.

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Respublika! is made possible by the kind funding of the Cultural 
Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Medochemie, 
and Sheila Pinkel. Valuable support has been received from CCMC, the 
Cypriot Community Media Research Programme of Vrije Universiteit Brussel 
(VUB), and the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University.

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