https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/13234 Tue, 26 May 2026 18:41:46 GMT 2026-05-26T18:41:46Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34664 Title: Vicky Pericleous, 'Economies of Empathy & Sustainability: a gestural return in the contexts of art' in the context of EMPACT|Empathy & Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain, Creative Europe Program Authors: Pericleous, Vicky Abstract: 'This presentation, within the EMPACT European Program (Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain), expands on a set of speculative investigations and practices I have been researching into and developing through the years that respond to today’s themes. These connect with, as well as examine quests around the subject of 'Economies of Empathy & Sustainability: a gestural return in the contexts of art.' To expand on a series of relative critical stances, I would talk about the present and talk about the ongoing Series: Exoticisms and Other Acts, 2006 – today, which has been presented in many art venues, amongs them, Monodrome, the 3rd Athens Biennale, 2011–2012 at Diplareios School, Athens, Greece, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, XY (Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Poka-Yio) and ‘Rooms to Contemplate: Content and Perspective of a Collection’, 2017, at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, curated by Savvas Christodoulides. Also I would shortly present as a following up to the above relevant contexts the work Also in Athens, 2019, shown in the international exhibition: ‘Art: Key to Conflict Resolution’ at Serafeio Municipal Centre, Athens, curated by Vasia Deliyianni, supported and co-hosted by Athens Culture Net of the City of Athens, an exhibition conceived as an extension of the relevant book launch at the Barnes Foundation, Philaderphia and in response to the book publication edited by Noam Lemelshtrich Latar, Jerry Wind and Ornat Lev-er... ...The initial printing materials used for both the works I have presented -products of an excess economic culture, which are mainly discarded after their vast circulation-, carry the burden of their specific socio-political conditioning. Their re-configuration into new speculative contexts could enable nonetheless, a shift towards other economies of making. Their gestural return into contexts of art, could open up potentialities for diverse modalities for engaging within the current states of our fragile worlds. Modalities that could perhaps produce and resonate new systems and tools which could move beyond hegemonic structures of power and authority in order to respond anew, to the complexities of today’s worlds. Ones that could point towards more vulnerable but decisive gestures of disturbance of the very power structures that have been producing inflexible constructs through the excess images and materials of our cultures. These -new- gestures of return, could reconnect and re-position these images and materials into other –conceivably more empathetic- contexts and perceptions.' Vicky Pericleous, artist/assistant professor (CUT) Description: The Art of Thinking Like a Mountain is a 24-month transnational cooperation project among the Cyprus University of Technology (CY) as lead partner, Espacio Rojo (SP), Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (IT), National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov ” (NATFA) (BG), Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (SL), Vorres Museum (GR), and Fondazione Lamberto Puggelli (IT), which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. With this project, we adopt an innovative approach to advocating and acting upon environmental challenges by exploring the empathy-sustainability relationship through the arts. The project focuses on the power of arts to rebuild trust in a sustainable future and a more inclusive society, stimulating creativity in citizens to find solutions and opportunities for the future. EMPACT acknowledges the New European Agenda for Culture strategic objectives, by focusing on the promotion of cultural participation, the mobility of artists, the promotion of skills for artists and creative professionals, and the potential of arts to foster sustainable development and social cohesion. Considering the challenging recovery from the pandemic that society faces, we support that a participational empathic model is required, which will set the basis for dynamic actions and creations with regards to sustainability. EMPACT aims at supporting a diverse set of cultural players to take an active role promoting empathy and sustainability in their respective local, national and transnational/European communities, advancing a better understanding of the ways in which empathy-related arts contribute to individual sustainability orientations and broader environmental sustainability. - @EMPACT Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34664 2024-06-02T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34663 Title: Descubre el Futoro Sustenible: Vicky Pericleous, 'Economies of Empathy & Sustainability: a gestural return in the contexts of art' in the context of EMPACT|Empathy & Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain, Creative Europe Program, at Fundación Antonio Gala,Cordoba Authors: Pericleous, Vicky Abstract: This presentation within the EMPACT European Program (Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain), expands on a set of speculative investigations and practices I have been researching into and developing through the years that respond to today’s themes. These connect with, as well as examine quests around the subject of Economies of Empathy & Sustainability: a gestural return in the contexts of art... ...A variety of media, art-practices (drawing, erasing, assemblage) and materials are employed to examine how different modes of production re-locate, overpower or pacify perceptions of existing -archival- images/booklets and their produced meaning. Reflecting, at the same time, on the politics of place and issues around identity construction. Cultural and spatiotemporal fragments and hierarchies are re-configured to investigate the fragilities or persistence around specific cultural constructs. At the same time new materials are re-introduced within the existing archival matters, to destabilise –stereotypical- perceptions and to, perhaps, open up to new possibilities of thinking, feeling and connecting with the current socio-political conditions.' Vicky Pericleous, artist/assistant professor, (CUT). Description: EMPACT|Empathy and Sustainability The Art of Thinking Like a Mountain is a 24-month transnational cooperation project among the Cyprus University of Technology (CY) as lead partner, Espacio Rojo (SP), Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (IT), National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov ” (NATFA) (BG), Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (SL), Vorres Museum (GR), and Fondazione Lamberto Puggelli (IT), which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. With this project, we adopt an innovative approach to advocating and acting upon environmental challenges by exploring the empathy-sustainability relationship through the arts. The project focuses on the power of arts to rebuild trust in a sustainable future and a more inclusive society, stimulating creativity in citizens to find solutions and opportunities for the future. EMPACT acknowledges the New European Agenda for Culture strategic objectives, by focusing on the promotion of cultural participation, the mobility of artists, the promotion of skills for artists and creative professionals, and the potential of arts to foster sustainable development and social cohesion. Considering the challenging recovery from the pandemic that society faces, we support that a participational empathic model is required, which will set the basis for dynamic actions and creations with regards to sustainability. EMPACT aims at supporting a diverse set of cultural players to take an active role promoting empathy and sustainability in their respective local, national and transnational/European communities, advancing a better understanding of the ways in which empathy-related arts contribute to individual sustainability orientations and broader environmental sustainability. @EMPACT Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34663 2024-06-04T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34662 Title: Descubre el Futuro Sostenible: Workshop, in the context of EMPACT|Empathy & Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain, Creative Europe Program, Fundación Antonio Gala, Cordoba Authors: Pericleous, Vicky Abstract: The workshop in the context of Descubre el Futuro Sostenible at Fundación Antonio Gala, Cordoba, investigates, re-ethinks and re-imagines materialities found across the city of Cordova, as new possibilities of thinking, feeling and connecting with the current socio-political conditions. Through the practice of walking, tracing, documenting, collecting and re-configuring (in various means and art processes), these new -art- gestures within the materials, investigate modalities of re-engaging with notions of empathy and sustainability. Description: EMPACT|Empathy and Sustainability The Art of Thinking Like a Mountain is a 24-month transnational cooperation project among the Cyprus University of Technology (CY) as lead partner, Espacio Rojo (SP), Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (IT), National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Kr. Sarafov ” (NATFA) (BG), Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (SL), Vorres Museum (GR), and Fondazione Lamberto Puggelli (IT), which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. With this project, we adopt an innovative approach to advocating and acting upon environmental challenges by exploring the empathy-sustainability relationship through the arts. The project focuses on the power of arts to rebuild trust in a sustainable future and a more inclusive society, stimulating creativity in citizens to find solutions and opportunities for the future. EMPACT acknowledges the New European Agenda for Culture strategic objectives, by focusing on the promotion of cultural participation, the mobility of artists, the promotion of skills for artists and creative professionals, and the potential of arts to foster sustainable development and social cohesion. Considering the challenging recovery from the pandemic that society faces, we support that a participational empathic model is required, which will set the basis for dynamic actions and creations with regards to sustainability. EMPACT aims at supporting a diverse set of cultural players to take an active role promoting empathy and sustainability in their respective local, national and transnational/European communities, advancing a better understanding of the ways in which empathy-related arts contribute to individual sustainability orientations and broader environmental sustainability. - @EMPACT Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34662 2024-06-04T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34661 Title: Embrace Empathy: Exploring the Spectrum of Understanding Authors: Pericleous, Vicky Abstract: The exhibition is organized by the Vorres Museum, a member and collaborator of the EMPACT group, and includes artists and artworks created as part of various actions carried out by all collaborating entities from all participating countries, along with Greek artists invited to enrich the exhibition with their own perspective on the program’s major themes. The exhibition is curated by Olga Daniylopoulou and is accompanied by the publication of a high-quality and content-rich catalog. Additionally, the Vorres Museum is organizing an educational program related to the artists and artworks participating in the exhibition. 26 artist in total are presented at the Vorres Museum in this group Show; 17 have collaborated in some action with one of the 7 European partners of the EMPACT project. Additionally, works of 9 Greek artists were selected by the curator to intersperse with their works, addressing the issues discussed by the EMPACT project in the context of its actions. The exhibition includes works from various collaborative programs, workshops and residencies: Description: Extract from the text of Cathryn Drake, writer In the two-channel video The Tail of the Image (2020), transmitted only in the virtual space of the Internet, a fan-shaped window mirrors the form of a peacock’s tail. A black void slowly recedes across the screen to reveal a spiral staircase ascending the gutted grid of the commercial building next door, the source of the tiled pattern evoking the sun’s movement on the wall of the gallery. The window adorns a Turkish-Cypriot building in Paphos, abandoned in the forced migration and presently used as an office by a Greek Cypriot. The sunlight and shadows mutate and move across its facade to reflect the revolutions of the planet and the passing of time; when the neon is extinguished, the white window frame resembles bones, a sort of memento mori. The imagery continues to segue and dissolve in a poetic trajectory across different locations in Cyprus: Residential apartment blocks are reflected in the glass of a corporate high-rise, a palm tree entering the frame as if an unruly intruder. A medieval fortress and a modern apartment building correspond and converse as cars and people pass from one to the other, disappearing and then emerging from behind a pile of rubble on a construction site—calling to mind the chronology of one evolutionary epoch giving way to another, brick by brick, a snippet of DNA carried over from each. Finally the spare geometry of the urban buildings softens into the lush foliage of a forest, where the relentless patter of the pouring rain drowns everything with forgetfulness, as if a reminder that we are perpetually destroyed, cleansed, and reborn. A lone peacock settles on the tin rooftop of a forlorn village house in disrepair; a neon light flashes in the window as if a dysfunctional fixture on the verge of burning out. The only living presence is the bird—a symbol of resurrection and immortality. Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/34661 2024-03-30T00:00:00Z