Cyprus Pavilion at Venice Architecture 2021, La Biennale di Venezia (IT)
05.22.2021 – 11.21.2021
Curators: Era Savvides and Nasios Varnavas (Urban Radicals), Marina Christodoulidou, Evagoras Vanezis
Contributors: Serhan Ahmet-Tekbas, Thanasis Ikonomou, Mariza Daouti, Eftychios Savvidis, Eleni Diana Elia, Kleanthis Rousos, Charis Nika, Sebastian Koukkides, Eleonora Antoniadou, Nayia Savva, Christophoros Kyriakides, Orestis Kyriakides, Dakis Panayiotou, Theodoulos Polyviou, Veronika Antoniou, Teresa Tourvas, Natalie Savva, Mark Rist, Rania Francis, Gergana Popova, Regner Ramos, Kleanthis Kyriakou, Brian Torres, Emilio Koutsoftides, Gabor Stark
Exhibitors: Urban Radicals
Soundscape: Yiannis Christofides
Dance-as-design: Georgia Tegou, Michalis Theophanous
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‘Desire Lines’ is a site-specific VR installation in which elements from mnemonic techniques (dating back to Renaissance times and involving esoteric ‘walking throughs’), technopaganism, and experimental psychology studies (such as 'The Doorway Effect’) are being referenced. Ecclesiastical and colonial architectural semiotics, often inscribed in Cypriot building facade features are also present. Temporal walls and metal studs widely used in building constructions of domestic and social spaces are virtually exposed in an attempt to deconstruct and amalgamate the private, the public space, the man-made and the sociopolitical into one syncretic sanctuary.
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