curated by Chrystalleni Loizidou
18:30, Monday 3 July at Nasty Cat Annex Gallery
Digeni Akrita 64, Nicosia, Cyprus
children are welcome
18:30 Intimate phytoenergetic vaporisation ritual*
19:30 Artistic ritual: How to create your radical self-mythology
– Artist Talk
– Collective drawing
– Video Projection: Ação Uterina
– Performative storytelling: Co-creators- healing the primordial sin, transforming the consequences by Sylvia Serena feat. the Katakwa drummers & Stalia Nikolaou with the Μοίρες project
– Awakening your serpent. Initiation by Justyna Ataman
20:45 Party / Ixodos: Unlocking the love of Cyprus
*people with uterus please come with a skirt and a bowl, people without uterus please come with a basin for the feet.
part of the Ixodos series of international artistic exchanges
with the kind support of Evanthia Tselika, the University of Nicosia School of Fine Art and PhD Erasmus Research exchange.
Livia is an artist and researcher of rituals and economic systems. She channels a wild Brazilian spirit of celebration and participation, and creates vibrant and safe spaces for artist ceremonies and socio-economic projects for collective healing. She is here to share a social technology of being together in comfort and creativity, removing the barrier between artist and public; between art and life.
Livia’s research includes becoming/rescuing previously corrupted archetypes, such as restoring the reputation and standing of Pandora-Eva as divine “container” of all life, including strife and shadow. One of the manifestations of that project was the creation of a cooperative of female ceramicists in southern Italy (2011– ). Similarly, her work with the archetype of Lilith recognises her as an inner energy of resistance to oppression (Vendo Ações Virtuosas 2013– ). Her research in Cyprus since 2018 cultivates a connection with Gaia and Kipris towards undoing systems of repression in our body. Livia’s fear-releasing rituals have involved thousands of people and taken part in festivals, schools, in the streets during parties and political protests, in museums, in galleries and international publications. She proposes a method of recycling our emotions in order to collectively rise out of impotent states of bitterness and criticality. She argues that political solutions lie in transmuting the energy of our inner hells in order to reach system-changing cooperativisms through creative self-expression. Her paintings with natural pigments have been consistently in demand in international art fairs and major private collections in Brazil, reflecting her way of harmonizar o chaos, and her shining χαρά ζωής as a now autonomous and free mother of two boys.
Lívia Moura (Rio de Janeiro, 1986) is an artist whose background is deeply rooted in Brazilian popular culture. She fuses various artistic languages and mediums involving the landscape and its actors in relationships of mutual support and cooperativism. Her research centers on the idea of economia emocional, a term she coined to designate processes that range from paintings to projects of economic solidarity and rituals focused on recycling emotions. The artist works in rescuing and reviving ancient traditions –natural pigments, ceramics, and wool, to create projects that establish relations of exchange, both economically and environmentally, where the management of emotions is the prime driving force. For Moura, human and non-human relationships with nature become a ritual of re-enchantment with everyday life. She currently lives with her two children in a rural region in the interior of Brazil and is pursuing doctoral studies in Contemporary Art at Fluminense Federal University (Rio de Janeiro).
https://www.instagram.com/liviamoura_vav/
https://www.vendoacoesvirtuosas.art/
https://afetopia.org/
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