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Peter Eramian , Emiddio Vasquez, Andreas Andronikou, Marina Ashioti, Niki Charalambous, Doris Mari Demetriadou, Irini Khenkin, Rafailia Tsiridou, Alexandros Xenophontos, Haig Aivazia
Press release
National Participation - Cyprus (Republic of)
The exhibition title takes its cue from the opening sentence of a 2019 Forbes article that exposes a covert spyware operation run out of a black van, parked along an inconspicuous gravel track in the coastal city of Larnaca. With this entry point into the histories of transmission and interference that render the island a ‘quiet thoroughfare’ for clandestine operations and intelligence interception on a global scale, the pavilion assumes the parafictional front of an agency named Forever Informed, both as physical address and as virtual presence.
The works on show are a direct outcome of collaborative research, group excursions, and a collective approach to curation. Accompanying the exhibition, a publication co-published with Archive Books brings together a collection of historical, fictional and analytical writings authored by the artists, each text appearing in English, Cypriot Greek, Cypriot Turkish and Arabic.
Alongside sculptural, audiovisual and spatial interventions, a vigil workspace is integrated within the exhibition, reconfiguring the labour of invigilation — a seemingly passive art world gig — into an active motor of the project. Invited researchers along with the exhibiting artists, are prompted to hold a space of remembrance, reflecting on bodily presence, rituals of vigil and the politics of remaining vigilant today. To that end, the first researcher will join as part of the Border Violence Monitoring Network to investigate the use of surveillance technologies on the Cyprus-Lebanon borderscape.
Commissioner: Louli Michaelidou
Curators: FOREVER INFORMED
