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Artist Residency Coordination
Xarkis NGO & Music Festival
Xarkis is a non-governmental organization which explores aspects of local evolving culture, alongside folk and intangible cultural heritage. Through the organization, we explore and test social design approaches in the context of design-led social innovation.
Served as a Coordinator of the annual Artist Residency as well as a board member of the organization. Through this role I aided the artists in the realization of their projects, provided direction and support, and worked on the curation of the final outcomes during the festival, as well a post festival exhibition.
The residency has in total hosted over 200 artists, their work ranging from permance art, photography, painting, dance, and many other multimedia approaches explored in relation to the culture of Cyprus.
Xarkis NGO & Music Festival
Xarkis is a non-governmental organization which explores aspects of local evolving culture, alongside folk and intangible cultural heritage. Through the organization, we explore and test social design approaches in the context of design-led social innovation.
Served as a Coordinator of the annual Artist Residency as well as a board member of the organization. Through this role I aided the artists in the realization of their projects, provided direction and support, and worked on the curation of the final outcomes during the festival, as well a post festival exhibition.
The residency has in total hosted over 200 artists, their work ranging from permance art, photography, painting, dance, and many other multimedia approaches explored in relation to the culture of Cyprus.
2018 - 2020
Xarkis Festival assumes its shape through the Xarkis Multi-Residency program (est. 2016) that precedes it. Just like the Festival, the Residency is characterised by a nomadic structure. Here, artists in residence come together with the team in a communal setting and are connected with local and former residents of the selected area. A key aspect of the residency involves immersing ourselves in a hyper-local setting. Here, artists collaborate on practice-based enquiries informed by our theme, to generate site-specific projects in ways that make use of skills, desires and resources of the persons involved and the unique characteristics of the regions we temporarily inhabit.
We have implemented seven nomadic Xarkis Multi-Residency editions in the villages of Lofou, Koilani, Polystipos, Lympia and Agros, (2016-2022) and four related group exhibitions at Point Centre for Contemporary Art (2015-2019).
Photo credits: Emma Louise Charalambous
