Hydrophoria: A guided walk of Nicosia area

This Sunday, a creative guided walk will be held in Aglantzia, Nicosia by two local artists. Curator and art theorist Evagoras Vanezis will join forces with the visual artist PASHIAS for a walk titled Hydrophoria. Their Sunday morning event will combine elements from their practices to draw attention to the prominent presence of water tanks in Aglantzia, where PASHIAS lives and grew up.

The walk will commence at 11am from 29 Afroditis Street and will reveal contradictory elements, architectural and conceptual, that unfold and coexist within the fluidity of time and space. It will feature water tanks which are identified as meeting sites, and their collective need for access to drinking water makes them central elements to inhabitants’ daily lives. Simultaneously they are ignored as significant urban structures.

At each stop of the walk, participants will take part in a game of questions, part of Vanezi’s practice, which reveals the multiple dimensions of the metaphor ‘fish out of water’. With this metaphor, PASHIAS has been exploring in recent years the exposure and reconfiguration of the body in public space, being a ‘body of water’ in constant transition and association with the cultural and social contexts surrounding it.

The walk is an ephemeral action, a shared experience, but also a spatial extension of the mythical and hybrid body of the mermaid, constantly questioning, desiring and hoping. Happening across a two-hour timespan, the walk is free to attend and participants can join or exit at any point.

Hydrophoria

Participatory walk by Evagoras Vanezis and PASHIAS. December 17. Meeting point: 29 Afroditis Street, Aglatnzia, Nicosia. 11am-1pm. Free