COMING TOGETHER IN MOUTTALOS
‘ΠΕΡΙΔΙΑΒΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΜΟΥΤΤΑΛΟ MAZI

A project by the European Capital of Culture Pafos

 

20 – 24 of September 2017
The project proposes a series of cultural paths through the neighborhood of Moutallos which will activate some existing abandoned buildings in Mouttallos and use particular streets and open spaces for temporary activities and site installations. The proposal builds on fieldwork research on the settlement of Mouttallos, carried out by architecture students and academics of the University of Nicosia during 2014-2015. Narrative ‘stops’ and ‘paths’ weaving through the neighborhood will highlight Mouttallos as a link to the wider socio-cultural experience of ‘Pafos 2017’. Pop up events and temporal interventions along the path are planned, aiming to uncover the identity of Mouttallos. The proposed events intend to bring together local residents and visitors, provoke dialogue, create alternative interpretations, and memories of the site through revealing the characteristic spaces of the neighborhood.

 

EXHIBITIONS
Curators: Maria Hadjisoteriou, Angela Kyriacou-Petrou, Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia, Cyprus with the collaboration and research of Architect Sevina Floridou.
Collaborators: Ourania Apserou, Anastasios Balabanides, Stefanos Farmakis, Katerina Kotsambasi, Maria Kyriakou

• Mapping Exhibition of the area of Mouttallos [Student Research, University of Nicosia, Unit 6 – Academic Year 2014-2015]: The mappings set out to expose the parallel or unseen layers of information about Mouttallos, allowing everyday activities to be seen against historical events. Exposing the evolution of the ‘lived site’ and its ongoing ambiguity, mappings recognize and give value to multiple identities uncovering new narratives of Mouttallos neighbourhood.
• Photographic exhibition: Photographs old and new, showing past and current activities, streets and buildings.
• The Public Eye: Fragmented Carpet of Memory An interactive Installation with photographic prints of Mouttallos’s bi-communal past, particularly of the inner life of the neighborhood’s past and present these last 150 years, based on the idea of ‘absence’ through an ephemeral weaving of images.

GUIDED TOURS: Sevina Floridou, Architect – Guided tours are structured on the research material collected during the study period of 2014-15 and evolve along two thematic narratives :

• Layers of Absence: Mouttallos Neighbourhood Walking Tour
• Disappearance and Invisibilities: Mouttallos /Ktima Cycling Tour-revival of the historic promenade experience through writings.

AUDIO TOUR: ‘The Quiet Village’:An audio walk in Mouttallos
Created by Nina Larissa Bassett & Thomas Burø of the Uneasy Listening Society (DK) and supported by the Danish Arts Council. Special thanks to Kimonos Art Center.
Experience the area through sounds by listening to our audio file, guided by a sonic map.You can hear 8 chapters on 8 different locations in Mouttallos – and add your own experiences to the map as you go along.

DANCE PERFORMANCE
Studio 21 Dance Performance & Movement Workshop

• Dervish G.Zeybek, Bekir Simsek, Yuksel Ozvurulmus, Hilmi Orac,Catarina Lopez
  Studio 21 work with multiple genres of dance and music, using movement and instruments as a medium to offer creative opportunity for young people. The events they organize and participate in are essentially community projects which aim to reach young people from different backgrounds.

 

LIGHT INSTALLATION
Victoria Coeln, Atelier Coeln, Vienna
Team members: Vienna: Solomiya Husak, Cyprus: Andreas Petrou
‘CHROMOTOPIA’ Mouttallos – Light Installation
Sponsored by: Austrian Embassy, Nicosia

The Viennese artist Victoria Coeln creates multi-faceted light interventions in the public space. Her work is site specific, never shying away from relevant social, political and ecological dimensions, and inspires the observer to critically question his or her own positions.Diachromes are miniature works of art, produced on site using multi-layered light filters. The projectors cast their light, filtered through the diachrome, in the places, spaces and sites and with the superimposition of light and matter, they create a ‘Chromotopia’. Chromotopia could also be the name of a worldscape which Victoria Coeln bathes in her light from region to region, in order to make visible all of the realities contained in them, superimpose them, crossing in them.

INSTALLATIONS & PLANTING
Temporary Installations & Tree Planting

• Bamboo Installation: Amfiaraos Ltd, Salamiou, Paphos: Argyris Panagiotou, Panayiotis Panayiotou Year 4 Architecture Students, University of Nicosia
• Planting: Ergenç Korkmazel , and resident of Mouttallos, E’ Primary School Paphos, St. Demetrios, year 5 students, Teacher: Giorgos Georgiou.
• The unused open spaces of Mouttalos neighbourhood will be cleaned and planted to create vibrant small public spaces. A canopy structure will provide a shaded space with a view towards Pafos harbour; the bamboo installation along Giaour Imam Street will provide a resting space and will give a new ephemeral identity to the neighbourhood which will host the Street Market.
• Planting will be carried out with schoolchildren of the local school together with local residents in various areas in the neighbourhood. Henna and Mulberry Trees will be used to provide shade and enhance the use of open spaces.

 

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP

• Cypriot Printmakers: Evgenia Vasiloudi, Efklides Papadopulos, Year 4 Architecture Students, University of Nicosia E’ Primary School Paphos, St. Demetrios, year 5 students.
• Printing in the streets of Mouttalos: Schoolchildren and university students will assist the Cypriot Printmakers employing experimental methods of printmaking. Using the technique of stenciling, printing will appear on the streets and walls of Mouttalos neighbourhood. References from the site’s Bi-communal history will be used for inspiration to develop ideas images and patterns for stenciling, in keeping with the overall approach of the project. These ephemeral traces of street art will help define and develop the new identity of the site.

 

FILM SCREENINGS
Short Films by Sholeh Zahraei
Short Documentary ‘Mouttalos’
Prepared by teachers, schoolchildren and residents of Mouttallos Neighbourhood. (Winner of Paphos Internal Film Festival Audience Award 2017)
5th Mouttalos Primary School St. Demetrios, Year 4, 2016.
School Teacher: Georgos Georgiou, Directed by: Peter Stefanou

 

INSTALLATION OF PEBBLES COVERED WITH CROCHET PATTERNS
Women from all over Cyprus meet regularly and create installations together, reviving traditional crochet patterns and designs. Peace2Peace open air crochet installations
Email : [email protected]

 

S.K.E PAFOS CHOIR
Pafos Adults Center Choir and Mouttalos / SKE Pafos
Tutor: Dr. Panayiotis Teklos

 

STREET MARKET: The food and flower market will take place along Giaour Imam Street, (neighbouring with the Municipal Market of Ktima), which is adjacent to the current market and runs along the south east cliff edge, offering amazing views of the coast.

The open Air Food Market will act as a multicultural event, where the smell of food together with those of the proposed flower market will blend and create a lively atmosphere in this neglected area of Ktima, not only bringing back memories but primarily, building new ones.Support from: Kemal Bolayir, Ergenç Κorkmazel. Pla Estel: Arnau Boix, Konstantina Chrysostomou, Barcelona. Miranda Kyprianou- Prometheas Sports Club, Mouttallos, 5th Mouttallos Primary School St. Demetrios, Andreas Papapetrou, Community Representative of Mouttallos, SKE Pafos, Savvas Prastitis, Pafos, Embassy of Spain. Embassy of Austria

 

THE PROGRAMME
COMING TOGETHER IN MOUTTALLOS 20 – 24 SEPTEMBER

 

WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2017
7.00 pm- OPENING EVENT
7.30 -10.00 pm- LIGHT INSTALLATION
7.45 pm-TREE PLANTING
8.00 pm – WALK TO EXHIBITIONS
8.45-10 pm – FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2017
4.00 – 7.00 pm –EXHIBITIONS
Mapping Exhibition / Photographic Exhibition / ‘The Public Eye’
5.30 pm – GUIDED TOURS
Layers of Absence: Mouttallos Neighbourhood
Walking Tour
Meeting place: Jami Kebir-Ayia Sophia Mosque
Duration: 90 minutes
6.30 pm-PERFORMANCE *Dance Performance & Movement Workshop
7.30- 10.30 pm-LIGHT INSTALLATION ‘CHROMOTOPIA’ Mouttallos
8.00- 9.30 pm – FILM SCREENINGS

 

FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2017
4.00 – 7.00 pm-EXHIBITIONS (Mapping Exhibition, Photographic Exhibition, The Public Eye’)
4.00 – 5.00 pm-AUDIO TOUR : The Quiet Village
Meeting place: Jami Kebir-Ayia Sophia Mosque
*Bring your smart phone & head phones.
Mp3 players can be booked.
7.30- 10:30 pm – LIGHT INSTALLATION Mouttallos ‘CHROMOTOPIA’
7.30- 9.30 pm –FILM SCREENINGS

 

SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2017
4.00- 7.00 pm –EXHIBITIONS (Mapping Exhibition, Photographic Exhibition,’The Public Eye’)
5.30- 7.30 pm-GUIDED TOURS ** Please bring your own Bikes
Disappearance and Invisibilities : Revival of a historic promenade based on writings of the past
Mouttallos / Ktima Cycling Tour
Meeting place: Jami Kebir-Ayia Sophia Mosque
Duration: 2hours
5.30- 6.30 pm – TREE PLANTING
7.30- 10.30 pm – LIGHT INSTALLATION, Mouttallos ‘CHROMOTOPIA’
7.30- 9.30 pm – FILM SCREENINGS
SUNDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2017
6.00 – 9.00 pm – EXHIBITIONS ( Mapping Exhibition, Photographic Exhibition, ‘The Public Eye’)
6.00 – 7.00 pm-AUDIO TOUR: The Quiet Village
Meeting place: Jami Kebir-Ayia Sophia Mosque
*Bring your smart phone & head phones *Mp3 players can be booked.
7.00- 10.30 pm- STREET MARKET (Food & Flower Market)
7.00- 10.30 pm –LIGHT INSTALLATION ‘CHROMOTOPIA’ Mouttallos
7.30 pm – SKE CHOIR
7.30 – 10.30 pm – FILM SCREENINGS