BEYOND
29.-31.Mai 2025

Project Description
“Beyond …” is an international artistic and philosophical event which will be organized and developed in Cyprus by several artists, musicians, thinkers and writers from different parts of the world to explore and present the fluidity of limits human-beings set upon themselves for different historic, political and social reasons. Our world-order has created many artificial divisions in bodies and minds, on land and sea, inherited from layers of control structures that have been imposed from top to bottom for millennia.

Cyprus and Nicosia, among many other places in the world, illustrate the problematic world we live in. Nicosia, however, is the only divided capital city in the world. By organizing multidisciplinary events in an international spirit in the symbolic place of Nicosia as a divided city, in its no human’s land, we want to bring to the islanders’ and world’s attention that our human problems can be overcome through collective effort. In order to do so, we need to learn how to coexist with each other, with each other’s differences. (Y.T.

During the three-day event at the Goethe-Institut, Nicosia, artistic interventions from various borders and no-man‘s-lands around the world will be presented alongside the philosophical symposium.

artits:
Cem Aydogan (Turkey), Elizabeth Hoak-Doering (Cyprus), Dalga Hasmetoglu / George Dimoglou (Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot), Marinos Koutsomichalis (CYPRUS), Mischa Leinkauf (Berlin), and Hans Hs Winkler (Berlin),
will show ideas and concepts for the buffer zone whereby the no-man‘s-land will be used as an artistic free space.

The artistic projects will be accompanied by a philosophical symposium with, among others, the philosophy professors Christos Hadjioannou, Mehmet Erginel and Yunus Tuncel, which will enable the participants to think through and discuss questions about our existence in the world as comprehensively as possible.

While philosophy invites us to think and finds path to wisdom, arts show us how we can be creative, as they bring spectators together in their own medium through the spectacles they create. In this way, humans can be connected through their shared experiences, through their collective consciousness and unconsciousness. Arts in a way bring different stories together, while often humans remain split due to their different stories. This is fine for communities but we also need universal stories which arts create. It is through these stories that all humans can be brought together; this is also what makes art, or some art, universal. ( Y.T.)

Hans Hs Winkler

Photo: Intervention