Umbra by Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell screened at the international short film festival of Cyprus   https://www.isffc.com.cy/19-words-on-film  on October 16th, 2019

Invited by the isffc to write a piece around Umbra, I recited it live on the same day during the screening. 

Σε συναντώ

μέσα

στο στίχο

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της νύχτας    rainbow spot

Περιπλέω την ήσυχη στιγμή της άφιξής σου          long light -ness

Την απροειδοποίητη απομάκρυνσή σου  

Splash        

Sh!

Sh!  

Στη σκιά,   σε βλέπω    

Την απροειδοποίητη απομάκρυνσή σου   

Ξανά          gushing… trickling 

και ξανά       

μείνε για λίγο, να σε συγ - κρατήσω   closer & darker

καταπίνω την γαργάρα του κρότου    a purl sound  

Swish swash, swish swash

swoosh stronger stroke

Υγροποιώ το σκελετό της σκιάς   wriggling wet   

Η επαφή κάνει διακοπές   hum,  after

Οι τελείες θαμπώνουν αυτό που μόλις είδα in black & white

στο ίδιο flash   

Και μετά, σιγανά, ζουμάρω μέσα σε έναν άλλο χώρο      

Οι στιγμές αστραπιαίες και  

αργοκίνητες 

Αρχή δεν υπάρχει      walk through

σε έναν άλλο χώρο 

πυκνό   

φωτεινό  

κάποτε κινούμενο 

και εκθαμβωτικό  

η τύφλωση και ορατότητα ξανά 

το βουητό βουτιάς      the sound of a swallow    feathery

plop  

Αρχή δεν υπάρχει  

Μια ατέρμονη στροφή σχέσης…   απλά  

Όπου το βλέμμα στρέφεται ξανά   almost disappearing   

Nicosia beyond barriers: voices from a divided city

An insightful, pleasurable, and moving journey with three brilliant writers and editors Aydın Mehmet Ali, Alev Adil, and Bahriye Kemal. It has been such a valuable experience working with this team! Join our first launch on Thursday 13 June at NiMac, Nicosia


This anthology aims to bring writers and poets together in a single volume that captures Nicosia as a shared and contested site, with dominant and marginalised narratives, capturing its fragments and its unities.  The island and its city have always been a host for differential inspiration for the inhabitants, visitors and exiles who come here.  It has created people and been created by people, triggering the act for all of us to write, read and construct it regardless of who we are, where we come from, or where we are going. In writing, reading and constructing the city we understand what it means to be at the crossroad of the world, fractured, to be postcolonial, European but not quite, Islanders, to be Muslim but not quite, to be Mediterranean, to be divided, to be united, to suffer in pain and longing together in solidarity. In this way we understand what it is to feel, live and create a city and be created by a city – a literary-lived Nicosia, Λευκωσία, Lefkoşa –that is host to total difference and diversity. Bahriye Kemal

Anthology can be found at:

Moufflon bookshop, Nicosia

Rüstem Kitabevi, Nicosia 

Işik Kitabevi, Nicosia
Autobahn. Limassol

K.P. Kyriacou bookshop, Limassol

Waterstones, London

and on:
https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/nicosia-beyond-barriers/

https://www.bookdepository.com/Nicosia-Beyond-Barriers/9780863566745

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/086356674X?pf_rd_p=330fbd82-d4fe-42e5-9c16-d4b886747c64&pf_rd_r=C1KXATFBCDKR92RT1PYN

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/086356674X?pf_rd_p=2d1ab404-3b11-4c97-b3db-48081e145e35&pf_rd_r=5YCPMX67WMMAX6K1XYQN

    

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Extreme singularities

Here, we are speaking in our own name, and about our own reality, from our own perspective, which has been silent for too long. Stuart Hall, and Jacob Sam-La-Rose, break silence.

  

The works of Anna Lascari in her solo exhibition Extreme Singularities move lyrically between cleavages of a desire to display, as if caught in a ceremonial celebration, possibilities and potentialities of a multiplicity of temporal matters outside invested meaning, which are never epic and not at all narrative in their negotiation. Many of the varying materials have been recovered from the artist’s studio. Nothing is abandoned; values are redeemed through the devised ways by which these unfold themselves and their relationship to each other. Strips of PVC transform like doorways that lead to a further layering of knotty conditions where the individual and collective traverse space, as the title of the exhibition suggests; where the parts coalesce into an altered belt of animation when they otherwise seemingly draw apart from the whole, from the full perception of the viewer, and from between the tremors that hold them together.

Sound is integrated in the artist’s works, springing up without reserve in ways that reach out into the surrounding space in which every single object occurs and endures, echoes and overcomes its oddity. A special treatment of each slight slither of one material against another, travels between the individual works in a symphonic synecdoche. A whiff of air through a door or window, the breath of a viewer, the muted slat of blinds rattling, an action, weak or interruptive, triggers the sound that is wavering. The voice contained, awaits crystallization. And each vertical articulation of these very singular parts critiques hierarchies of agency through a rest in counterbalance.

                                                                                         

One of the world’s most widely produced synthetic plastic plays a reoccurring role as a gestural setting for much tension between a manifold of images and movement, sculpture and sound, painterly winks and fragile fragments of impressions. The precarious “bases” whose (im)balances are never detrimental enough to cave-in, in effect, hold resilience. Their emphasized materiality seems to steadily matter and to carry on; their autonomy escapes the authority of representation, in the way that Deleuze and Guattari think about singularity as that which cannot be reduced to representation or in Giorgio Agamben’s view that every whatever-singularity matters whatever it is – it is not subjected to a superior dividing up of things which matter and things which don’t. Every detail is a corresponding feature uplifting all until exhaustion.  

On the verge of tipping their historicity and venerating their ephemerality, Anna Lascari’s self-validating works unfailingly demonstrate a progress departing from narrative, and poising in a state of lasting (dis)integration. Whether a delicate fragment of paraffin wax; a flexible plexi spine raising the reverberating remnants of durability; triangular tips of wood pointing at all directions; an ostensibly collapsing staircase swaying fluid ounces of water; or slant supports whose unsettled and unsettling identity gently swerves us into paradoxical possibilities where pellucidity entails cooperation, these acute fragments within their singularities address, with sensibility, a dynamic that braces prevailing precariousness.         

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Maria Petrides, Independent writer

Anna Lascari's solo show is running from October 24 to December 01, 2018 at a.antonopoulou gallery, Athens 

 

Interview by Avant-Garde Cyprus

https://www.avant-garde.com.cy/stiles/efta-apories/efta-apories-creative-writer

beyond da ta

THE MUTABILITY ISSUE

I am very pleased to announce that the Mutability Issue is out! It features fascinating works by the artists, poets and writers Louisa Doloksa, David Felix, Amy McCauley, John Morgan, Maria Petrides, Lauren Samblanet, Erica Schreiner, Shakeema Smalls, and Jenny Wu.

https://aglimpseof.net/category/the-mutability-issue/

WOW

Wow is a comic book by Ariadni Krissa Kousela, Aris Papadopoulos & Jimkos, published by Patakis & translated by me.

It is the first contemporary political comic book in Greece with Yanis Varoufakis as a political superhero. A political comic book that depicts the first chapter of the European drama, which is still unfolding without end in sight and has a tremendous impact on the lives of the people of Europe.

The creators of Wow have drawn aspects from both the real and the imaginary world, having at the crux of it, the most important events of Greece under the memoranda, culminating in the Greek referendum of the 5th of July, 2015 and the signing of the 3rd memorandum.

An epic battle takes place between a Greek European hero, who along with his valuable allies, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith, John von Neumann, John Forbes Nash Jr. and Ariadne, struggle for freedom and democracy against the “monsters” of the European political scene.

A battle in the financial negotiating arena between Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, code name V, the authoritarian European elite, the troikan army, and the European minotaur. First episode unabridged.

Famous heroes & villains spark a current era οf revolutions that threaten the old Europe while the emergence of a new Europe promises wonders.

It is an era when economists are called upon to become heroes and heroes to become economists.

https://www.patakis.gr/product/506109/vivlia-viografies--ntokoumenta-viografies-autoviografies/WOW-V-for-V-English-edition-e-book-pdf/

A book of small things

A book of small things (July 2016) is formed by writings from a wide selection of writers with broad backgrounds, and edited and published by visual artist, Panayiotis Michael. 
The writers included in this collection are Pascalle Burton, Isabel Carvalho, Peter Eramian, Erden Kosova, Flavia Malusardi, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Christopher Rey Perez,  Liv Strand, and myself.

My own book is an assemblage of short short stories, fragments of poetic prose, remnants of remembering, lines of doodling and just time dangling with form. Some had already been published in a different format a long time ago, others are more recent, and quite a few go back to living in NY, London & Athens.
The book can be reached at Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia, The Shopkeeper & Co in Limassol, and Lemoni bookshop in Athens. There will be further distribution in cities and countries in the near future.

A performance with A book of small things in live action took place in Leipzig at the Halle 14, between September 17 to November 20, 2016 as part of the exhibition 'Terra Mediterranea: In Action', curated by Michael Artz and Yiannis Toumazis.
On February 3, 2018 A book of small things was performed at the Benaki Museum in Athens.


  
photo by Nicos Louca

Το SMAC του Ηλία Δημητρίου

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