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5th of October 2023 | 19:00 onwards<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Home for Cooperation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

FREE ENTRANCE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

About the performance:<\/p>\n

A multimedia installation consisting of white synthetic cotton skeins which are folded and intertwined, creating links (turning points<\/em>). The three-dimensional form of the cotton simulates a woven cloud in continuous disturbance, ready to burst. The cloud is supported by an array of motors which are connected to movement sensors (PIR – ultrasonic sensors). Thus, its movement is affected by the movement of the viewer. The sensation of the storm is enhanced by an intense computer-generated sound effect, reminiscent of a ticking clock, influenced by the audience\u2019s movement beneath the cloud. The installation simulates a symbolic chaotic system. The viewer’s interaction indicates continuous alternations of order and chaos, memory and oblivion, silence and rumble. The entire installation is controlled by a programmed microprocessor. A real-time video footage is projected on the cloud in an attempt to manifest the depiction of our memories and imagined future. The footage is live-recorded by a camera placed outside the installation that captures the movement of the festival\u2019s attendees and it is processed with modern computer vision algorithms. Through the technology itself, the audience interacting with the cloud is able to instill the cloud with meaning. The cloud, as a modern allegory of memory storage, illustrates a monument of collective memory which is constructed out of our movement and the proximity of our bodies. The buffer zone, as the place in between competitive memories, invites us for an interactive performance to stimulate our senses and drive us into oblivion with the hope of \u201creturn\u201d and the desire to (re)construct our common memory.<\/p>\n

Turning Point: A sensorial cloud between chronotopes<\/em><\/p>\n

Entropy is prevalent, audacious, silent. Its presence is as blatant as peaceful. It fears none, describes all: the universe, the self, and Cyprus as a marvelous physical place, as a geopolitical system, and as a set of all the interactions between the people that take place continually and imperceptibly. The \u201cTurning Point\u201d is intangible, unnoticeable by a present observation, yet it resides in the beauty of our daily interplay and activities. As order resurfaces from chaos, although impossible to notice, the \u201cTurning Point\u201d embodies an unceasing state of evolution that remains detectable exclusively in the unfolding future.<\/p>\n

As the world and our society are mesmerized by the unpredictability of the future, this chaotic universe generously provides us with the means to imagine in ways we construe unimaginable. The utilization of new technologies, as a meta-level approach, can be catalytic for the discovery (or the invention) of the \u201cTurning Point\u201d. The \u201cTurning Point\u201d is not an event or a handshake. It\u2019s fused into people and it\u2019s imaginable by the convergence of art and technology.<\/p>\n

The installation points to a collective cloud. A monument implanted in the buffer zone\u2019s sky, storing all our vulnerable memories whose existence is hounded by surveillance and abductions.<\/p>\n

Cotton is retrieved from the island\u2019s history, uttering the story of harmonious coexistence; it is intertwined, forming strange loops and tangled structures to exhibit our common past and future. The formed cloud is phenomenically still, yet unbounded and infinitely present. It\u2019s us, the compressed water vapour, projected onto our common sky. It is a repository of our anamneses. Despite floating in the sky, it can cement a change, a \u201cTurning Point\u201d.<\/p>\n

The projected visuals on the cloud provide a means to imagine the physical and intangible space between us as it is possible to exist. It attempts to construct the statement that our present doings and daily interactions are stored in our collective memory, the cloud. It also acts as a testimony that Art itself entwined with technology, is the \u201cTurning Point\u201d.<\/p>\n

Credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Costa Philippou, Lefteris Ioannou, Kostantinos Apostolou<\/p>\n

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