DOES Europe Exist? Be/Coming European: Citizen Middle East

16/12/2023

Sunday December 17, 19:00 at ARTOS HOUSE

03/04/2018

vote yes or no on this website

The project “Does Europe exist? v1.0” was first implemented in 2012, when Cyprus had the presidency of the Council of Europe.

04/11/2017

welcome to Does Europe Exist? v2.0
Please vote on http://www.does-europe-exist.net/does-eu-exist

05/09/2016

The ARTos Foundation originating in Nicosia, Cyprus, is a contemporary non-for-profit foundation open

25/12/2015

Artists knew it and presented it at ARTos Foundation in 2012. How could the politicians be so ignorants to see it coming? Population movement was inevitable.

03/02/2015

Does Europe exist? this project is still alive and ready to migrate to other countries

09/11/2012

Video documentary, 10 mins / The joint video performance “Art Talk“ video by Denmark-based, Lebanese artist Khaled Ramadan and French artist Colonel asserts the cultural difference, the “otherness” in relation to the Nordic society, which is inscribed on non-Nordic subjects. ART TALK on Bio-Colonialism, is inspired by theories of the thinker Magdalena Donea who has discussed the concept of “virtual identity,” the (re)construction of identities, and their challenge of traditional notions of our ways of indicating who we are. She highlights how assumptions such as physical appearance, accent, and mannerism tell us that one has a fixed identity related to one’s s*x, geographic location, history, and social class. Nonetheless, in the disembodied world of the virtual community, identity is ambiguous.

09/11/2012

Animated Script / Haytham Nawar tackles the migration of lingual form through its chronological visual integration. Starting with his cultural heritage, referencing ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for their pictographic qualities, that had then gone through stages before it reached Greek alphabets and the Arabic language. Greek alphabets became integrated into the Egyptian language with the Coptic form; starting at Hieratic, it then became Demotic, Coptic and finally ended with Arabic as the primary language. Multilingualism had always existed in integrated cultures, and Nawar’s visual study presents us with the ancient importance of shared Greco-Egyptian cultures to where we are today in contemporary society.

09/11/2012

Exhibition Photos coming up soon. Thanks to all our speakers and organizers for hosting this event in Nicosia – Great success and super reception!

29/10/2012

Biography .:. aladin
Based in London, U.K., aladin works across categories. As an interdisciplinary artist and animateur his projects have been sited at: the Whitechapel Gallery, the ICA, LIFT, BAC, South London Gallery, Jerwood Space, Chisenhale Dance Space, London Design Festival, D+AD New Blood Festival,
Portobello Film Festival, Pestival South Bank Centre, London 2012 Festival/Cultural Olympiad amongst others. Between 2000-4, aladin was a principal architect of the City’s integrated master plan for its culture, media, sport, arts, heritage and tourism – a world first for a capital city . Amongst its achievements were London’s successful Olympic bid, its cultural diversity policy, a creative industries strategy and a focus on ‘sustainability’.

A Visiting Professor at universities in the U.K. and abroad, aladin writes widely (including the Guardian newspaper, Performance Research Journal and Deepak Chopra’s Intent), and is also Editor Emeritus of BDNEWS24.

www.aladin.me

29/10/2012

Biography .:. Khaled Ramadan
Born 1965 in Damascus / Syria. Lives and works between Europe and Middle East.

Khaled Ramadan is an archivist, documentary filmmaker and curator. His fields of specialties are the culture and history of documentary and experimental film, with interests in the fields of alternative aesthetic and archive research.

He produces video and documentaries that explore how political, cultural, and scientific systems change the ways we think about the world around us. His films reflect the work of a film archivist not a traditional filmmaker, he often apply his theoretical knowledge in his production to learn and be inform about communities, people and the evolving social / human system. Ramadan utilizes his art as an agent for empowerment to involve viewers from all different backgrounds and communities.
Ramadan has studied at Edinburgh College of Art, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. He has a master degree in architecture and Diploma in documentary film production and Ph.D. in Art History. Ramadan has occupied a variety of positions such as lecturer, advisor and curator, for among others, the Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam; Finnish Art Council; the Danish Art Council; Norway Residency Program, NKD; Finland Residency Program HIAP; and the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA).

He curated projects and cultural programs for institutions like, Manifesta 8, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Modern Art, China, and UCCA Beijing, Danish Film Institute, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Art Center and the Nordic House Reykjavík, Iceland.

Ramadan’s works are shown around the world at major festivals, TV stations and museums, like Rotterdam Film Festival; Cinema Paris; KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Queens Museum, NY; Hamburg Film Festival; Docu-days Beirut; Video Brazil; Der Kunstwerk in Berlin; Manifesta 8; Sidney Film Festival; Milano Film Festival and San Francisco Arab Film Festival, Press TV and Al-Jazeera TV.

In 2009, Al-Jazeera TV produced a documentary about Ramadan’s activities and achievement. In 2009, Ramadan was given the Achievement Award of the 11th Cairo Biennial. In 2001, he received the prestigious Hoffmyer Award.

Ramadan is member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT) / www.khaledramadan.org
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29/10/2012

Biography .:. Ilka Eickhof
Ilka Eickhof is a research associate at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin, since 2011 and has a Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies, Sociology and Modern History (Berlin, Damascus and Istanbul). She worked in Bosnia and the Palestinian territories before engaging in academic studies, and completed her MA with a thesis on Anti-Muslim racism and postcolonial theory. Before concentrating on her Ph.D, she worked at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) for two years. Her current research focuses on the regulation of cultural (+identity) politics and contemporary Arab art in Egypt and Jordan, locating the arts/art institutions between the state, the political (secular/islamistic) forces, the (western) market and the current discourse on the “Arab Spring”. Ilka Eickhof is a participating member of the graduate colloquium of the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (FRCPS).