Gorillas went local with Anamorphes – Body Art Factory at Let’s Go Kaimakli! Neighbourhood Event on 26 April 2015. A pair of French performers took us into the anthropometric dimension: Created on a plastic cylindrical volume, a pictural work revealed itself through the story of an encounter between body and paint.
ΦουσκόPolis Nicosia took place at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and attracted well over a thousand local residents and visitors alike to visit the site in just one day. ΦουσκόPolis even brought people to the site who had never visited it before. The programme of events in Nicosia was made up of a diverse range of actions from …
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ΦουσκόPolis Paphos took place at the Castle and attracted over a thousand local residents and visitors alike to visit the site on each of the two days. ΦουσκόPolis even brought people to the site who had never visited it before. The programme of events in Paphos over the two days was made up of a diverse …
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ΦουσκόPolis Limassol took place at the Castle and attracted over a thousand local residents and visitors alike to visit the site on each of the two days. ΦουσκόPolis even brought people to the site who had never visited it before. The programme of events in Limassol over the two days was made up of a diverse …
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ΦουσκόPolis Larnaca took place at the Castle and attracted over a thousand local residents and visitors alike to visit the site on each of the two days. ΦουσκόPolis even brought people to the site who had never visited it before. The programme of events in Larnaca over the two days was made up of a diverse …
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April 6, 2015 ΦουσκόPolis was a series of temporary architecture installations in the form of giant inflatables in public spaces all over Cyprus. Starting from workshops in Autumn 2014 to design and build the inflatables, to stepping out into underutilised public spaces and engaging the wider public in Spring 2015, ΦουσκόPolis was a grassroots initiative …
The European Mediterranean Arts Association (EMAA) in collaboration with Urban Gorillas and Plastique Fantastique (Berlin) hosted Life Inside_Outside a Bubble at the Bedestan in the old city of Nicosia on 20-21 March 2015. The project was a temporary architecture installation in the form of a giant inflatable structure that hosted an artistic, cultural and community programme of …
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Our most ambitious project to date, Green Urban Lab acts as a tool in regenerating urban public spaces in Cyprus, and reclaiming public spaces in four main cities across the island. The project introduces public space as a vital part of everyday urban life: the streets we transverse for our daily routines, the piazzas where …
Following the successful workshop Inflating the Public_2 led by Marco Canvacci, architect and founder of Plastique Fantastique (Berlin), Urban Gorillas inflated City Plaza in downtown Nicosia with one of their temporary structures for a couple of hours during the Pop-Up Festival on 23 November 2014. Inflatable structures such as the one briefly installed at City Plaza …
19-20-21 September 2014_18:00-21:00 Urban Gorillas NGO in partnership with the Architecture Research Centre (ARC) of the University of Nicosia ran a pop-up event in the walled city of Nicosia following the recent workshop Inflating the Public_I, with invited guest inflatables specialist from Rome, Daniele Mancini. Participants installed temporary inflatable structures at five different locations within …
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