Within the framework of MAXXI’s The Independent project, Urban Gorillas presented Urban Spectacle, a curated series of artistic interventions exploring everyday human activity, social interaction and the use of public space. Urban Spectacle was curated and artistically directed by Veronika Antoniou, who developed the overall concept and brought together artists, designers, performers and collaborators working …
Off the Studio Project 15 November 2016 in old town Nicosia, as part of the Urban Spectacle Series – read here In a world where one can no longer distinguish fiction from reality, Arthropod in collaboration with Urban Gorillas propose an installation performance situated in the in-between state of these two notions. Artistic group, Arthropod collective, craft …
Sweet Give & Take Relationships Project 13 January 2017 the project took place at Larnaca sea front, as part of the Urban Spectacle Series – read here A black box placed in a public environment with marshmallow sticks waiting to be taken and a stack of notes ready to be written. The artist of this installation wants to …
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On the 11th of December the Urban Dinner took place in Larnaca as a part of the Urban Spectacle public interventions series – read here The Urban Dinner The Urban Dinner proposed a theatrical stage of the act of dining where food became an art form and the act of eating an engaging,and participatory experience. …
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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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 …
