FROM CYPRUS WITH LOVE
Phaneromenis 70 · Jan 1, 2016
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From Cyprus With Love is the 11th Chapter of the ongoing Phaneromenis 70 project “Delivering Views”. The “Delivering Views” project investigates the foreign gaze by curating photographs and texts submitted to Phaneromenis 70 by visitors of Cyprus. It does so with the aim of providing new insight about visitors’ experiences of Cyprus. From Cyprus With Love advances this project in a different direction, pairing visual artists and creative writers—from Cyprus or associated with the island—to define Cyprus on their own terms for touristic consumption.
From Cyprus With Love showcases a range of contemporary islanders’ own narratives about their everyday experiences of Cyprus and attempts to shift the tourism sector’s focus to the lesser emphasized aspects of the physical and social island space, including culture, the arts, and disregarded but familiar perspectives. The publication seeks to revise colonial as well as mono-cultural representations of Cyprus that may commodify the island space and island identity for foreigners’ consumption at the expense of islanders’ dignified and diverse identities, their contemporary realities, and island ecologies.
The publication includes a set of 11 postcards and a booklet containing the curated visual and creative writing texts in English, as well as editors’ introductions. The postcards feature work by artists and writers Alev Adil, Annie Damianou, Eleni Skarpari, Charitini Kyriakou, Nikoletta Kyprianou, Maryam Roshan, Charly Chahwan, Nikandros Savvides, Mikhail Mavrotheris, Shona Muir, Christos Tsiailis, Nora Nadjarian, Polymnia Tsinti, Pavlik Frank, Andriana Ierodiaconou, Kiki Patsali, Vanessa Oberin, Alex Koumoullis-Guest, Menelaos C. Pittas, Gür Genç, Marilena Zackheos, and Kathy Kattashis.
Phaneromenis 70 · Jan 1, 2016
From Cyprus With Love is the 11th Chapter of the ongoing Phaneromenis 70 project “Delivering Views”. The “Delivering Views” project investigates the foreign gaze by curating photographs and texts submitted to Phaneromenis 70 by visitors of Cyprus. It does so with the aim of providing new insight about visitors’ experiences of Cyprus. From Cyprus With Love advances this project in a different direction, pairing visual artists and creative writers—from Cyprus or associated with the island—to define Cyprus on their own terms for touristic consumption.
From Cyprus With Love showcases a range of contemporary islanders’ own narratives about their everyday experiences of Cyprus and attempts to shift the tourism sector’s focus to the lesser emphasized aspects of the physical and social island space, including culture, the arts, and disregarded but familiar perspectives. The publication seeks to revise colonial as well as mono-cultural representations of Cyprus that may commodify the island space and island identity for foreigners’ consumption at the expense of islanders’ dignified and diverse identities, their contemporary realities, and island ecologies.
The publication includes a set of 11 postcards and a booklet containing the curated visual and creative writing texts in English, as well as editors’ introductions. The postcards feature work by artists and writers Alev Adil, Annie Damianou, Eleni Skarpari, Charitini Kyriakou, Nikoletta Kyprianou, Maryam Roshan, Charly Chahwan, Nikandros Savvides, Mikhail Mavrotheris, Shona Muir, Christos Tsiailis, Nora Nadjarian, Polymnia Tsinti, Pavlik Frank, Andriana Ierodiaconou, Kiki Patsali, Vanessa Oberin, Alex Koumoullis-Guest, Menelaos C. Pittas, Gür Genç, Marilena Zackheos, and Kathy Kattashis.