EUnity20 × @pame_kaimakli festival
‘Finding Comfort in the Butcher Shop’- An Intervention by @nurtane
DATES: 25 & 26 October
LOCATION: Butchers Shop, Kaimakli (Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eX2Z7qrGy9Gema3v9)
ABOUT THE INTERVENTION
〰️ Nurtane Karagil will transform the closed down ‘Petroutsios’s Butcher’ shop at Kaimakli into a playhouse, reopening it as a space for exploring and expressing human emotions. When participants enter the shop, they step onto a scale and begin to prepare a “dough of themselves.” They will colour their dough using different choices that correspond to specific feelings, mapping their inner emotional landscape in a tangible, playful way. Using techniques inspired by a butcher’s participants will learn to handle, process, and present their emotions in a physical form.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
〰️ Nurtane Karagil studied Fine Arts at Hacettepe University and has an MA from the University of Brighton. Since returning to his divided homeland in 2013, she has been engaged with the island’s socio-political environment on various levels which in turn set the tone of the majority of her work. Using a wide range of artistic mediums such as painting, illustration, sculpture, video and photography, her art conceptualises the power of memory, dreams and surreal fantasies in juxtaposition with everyday life situations. Through this contrast, she invites the viewer to an uncanny zone where the edges of reality are somewhat sharper.
〰️Join us to slice and dice your emotions, and become part of a collective, participatory mural of shared vulnerability and belonging. This work explores belonging beyond borders — first to our own selves, and then to the shared spaces we create together. It celebrates dialogue, empathy, and connection as the foundations for unity.
The EUnity20 Project is an EU-funded initiative under the programme CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM, in collaboration with @alternativebrainsrule , @yeu_cyprus , @sigmalivecom@sigmalive.en , and @uol.ac.cy@uol_researchcenter
The @pame_kaimakli is organized by @urban_gorillas
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