Turning the Wheel

“Local artists and practitioners Souzana Petri, Melita Couta, and Vassos Demetriou, together with guest artists Joëlle Bitton and Kevin Hinz explored the opportunities afforded by clay extrusion in a renewed engagement with materiality. By Re-thinking traditional making methods we explored the possibilities of making, through data controlling CNC-machines. The seven-millennia-long history of clay and ceramics in Cyprus resonates in numerous ways in contemporary realities, transferring social, cultural, and technological expressions of our civilisation. Looking afresh at the plurality and adaptability of clay as a structural and ecosensitive raw material, local and visiting experts rediscovered the diachronic histories, as well as remap and reframe the potential of Cypriot earth and minerals. Adding to existing taxonomies, formal/informal histories, traditions and practices connected to Cypriot earth and minerals, the invited guests and local artists/practitioners employed new ways in order to rethink materiality, locale, making processes and experiences by experimenting with new techniques and technological tools.”

A project in collaboration with Cyens Thinker Maker Space