Thinker Maker Space (TMS) of CYENS Center of Excellence, with the opportunity of the residency completion of the artist Nicolina Stylianou, presents Waves, Body and Disturbing Overtones.
The event will be held at the TMS premises and NIMAC – Theatro Polis OPAP from the 20th until the 29th of July 2022, and it will include invited artist talks, workshops, live performances as well as the exhibition of Inflated Liquidity, a body-sculpture instrument developed during Nicolina Stylianou’s residency which will be showcased at the exhibition area of TMS.
The event is organised by Thinker Maker Space in collaboration with Nicolina Stylianou.
Participation to all event activities is free. Registration is required to attend all talks, workshops and the performance since limited seats are available. The exhibition is open to the public and no registration is required.
by Nicolina Stylianou
In continuation to Nicolina’s performance at Theatro Polis, an exhibition will be hosted at the Thinker Maker Space Exhibition Area to showcase Inflated Liquidity. The Exhibition opening will take place on the 21 July 2022, 16:30-20:00, and it will remain open Monday to Friday, 10:00-16:00 until the 29th of July.
Nicolina Stylianou is a visual artist who mainly works with performance, sound, and sculpture. In her artistic work she turns objects into vital things by re-situating the mythical within contemporary settings, and performs with them live. Stylianou holds a Masters in Arts (Theatre and Drama) from the Theatre Academy – University of the Arts Helsinki (FI), and a BA (hons) in Art & Design from Kingston University London (UK). Her work was exhibited in performance festivals, exhibitions, museums, and artistic residencies in the United States of America, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Finland, Italy, and the United Kingdom. In 2016, she founded “sensorium space” a mobile art platform dedicated to engage with the art of living exhibits.
SOCIAL MEDIA | instagram/aetherlinna
WEBSITE | nicolinastylianou.com
Mihalis Shammas is a Cypriot (born 1988) designer and sound artist. He holds a Diploma in Architecture (AUTH, Greece) and a Master’s degree of Music in Sonology (KonCon, the Hague). He has been an active member of the Instrument Inventors Initiative in the Hague, the Netherlands, since 2020. His work is driven by an urge to create narrative objects and tools for musical expression. It spans over instrument making, performance, sound sculpture and installation work. In all these areas, he explores intricacies in movement and sound by animating simple materials, manifesting tensions between the mechanical and the chaotic. Mihalis has performed and exhibited work in various occasions in Cyprus, Greece, Finland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
SOCIAL MEDIA | instagram/mihalisshammas | bandcamp/mihalisshammas
WEBSITE | mihalisshammas.com
Derek Holzer (USA 1972) is an audiovisual artist, researcher, lecturer, and electronic instrument creator based in Stockholm. He has performed live, taught workshops and created scores of unique instruments and installations since 2002 across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand. He is currently a PhD researcher in Media & Interaction Design at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, focusing on historically informed audiovisual synthesis.
SOCIAL MEDIA | instagram/macumbista | vimeo/macumbista | github/macumbista
WEBSITE | macumbista.net