Conference
6-8 February 2025
Funded by:
Department of Contemporary Culture, Deputy Ministry of Culture, Cyprus
Supported by:
Kapedes Municipality
BA in Fine Art, University of Nicosia
Celadon Center for Arts & Ecologies* organises the conference Learning with mountains; recalibrating how we understand art and planet.
An international interdisciplinary conference and parallel programme on artistic practices and ecology will take place in Nicosia and Kapedes, Cyprus, 6-8 February 2025. It is organised by Celadon Center for Arts & Ecologies and is taking place on the 6th and 7th of February at Artos Cultural and Research House in Nicosia and on the 8th of February at the Kapedes Primary School in Kapedes.
The conference will explore the different ways through which we can experience, co-exist and understand the natural world and the environmental commons through the arts via key-note presentations, 20 minute presentations followed by Q&A in panel sessions, workshops, walks and screenings.
Keynote speakers:
Viviana Checchia
Antonis Hadjikyriacou
Umut Yildirim
Speakers:
Nikolaos Akritidis
Garazi Ansa
Eleonora Antoniadou
Klitsa Antoniou
Georgios Artopoulos
Thomas Ballhausen
Irina-Anca Bobei
Marina Christodoulidou
Nicoletta Christodoulou
Kyriaki Costa
Melita Couta
Christiane da Cunha
Evagoria Dapola
Deja Bečaj
Marina Demosthenous
Erman Dolmacı
HIVE – Ellada Evangelou, Christopher Kilburn, Karen Holmberg, Kristin Horton
Airin Farahmand
Sevina Floridou
Leonardo Aboim Pires & Gil Gonçalves
Sophia Hadjipapa
Yiorgos Hadjichristou
Susan Brind & Jim Harrold
Victoria Vargas-Downing & Rebecca Jarman
Lilia Kapsali-Grant & Courtney Taylor
Rowan Lear
Stavroula Michael
Lívia Moura
Marco Musillo
Eleni Odysseos
Maria Papacharalambous
Elena Parpa
Angela Kyriacou Petrou
Simone Philippou
Esra Plümer Bardak and Sümer Erek
Maria Shehade, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Myrto Aristidou
Karen Stock
Constantinos Taliotis
Rahme Veziroglu
Rozen Whitworth
Panels:
No Dig: Post-extractive Methodologies and Land Care
Ros Gray, Sara Trillo, Claire Baily
More-than-human Spatio-temporalities and Encounters
Lenka Vráblíková, Jol Thoms, Anna Colin
Workshops:
Denise Araouzou
Christina Charalambidou
Maria Pithara
Listening set:
Loizos Olympios
Screening:
Cosmic Consciousness curated by Constantinos Taliotis
