RainZonanceS: Rainzonances4

After its course through the Nicosia Municipal Arts Center and the Prague Quadrennial, the ongoing project RainZonanceS, founded in 2008 by composer - sound artist Antonis Antoniou, returns with its 4^th edition. Inspired by David Tudor’s milestone piece ‘Rainforest iv’, this project aims to expose the experiential attributes of unusual spaces by using primarily sound and light. Each space has its own aural aura and responds to our actions in

a specific manner; it has the inherent ability to affect our feelings and moods; it is a ‘sponge’ of past voices, gestures and utterances.‘RainZonanceS’ juggles with these realities. It brings out the texture, color, tone and emotion found in extraordinary sites. It takes their atypical characteristics to their extremes.

This 4th edition of RainZonanceS produced by the ‘estoudiantinos symeonides productions’, takes place outside the fence of the Nicosia Airport, an airport that has been declared as ‘abandoned’ by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and since the ceasefire between Turkish and Greek Cypriots in 1974, the site has been included in the United Nations Protected Area (UNPA). Since then, it has consequently become inaccessible to civilians leading to the creation of a puzzling void in a passerby’s mind. The ostensible silence of this ‘frozen’ site is for the passerby NOISE; the product of a subconscious urge to fill that empty frame with a hazy fictional world.

RainZonanceS functions as a platform for interdisciplinary artists to interact and co-create works following a ‘site-specific’ agenda. In this edition’s scenario 3 different artistic expressions will co-exist, to produce an installation/environment based on the idea of inaccessibility and the perceiving of this void by the locals and/or the passerby.

Composition/sound installation: Antonis Antoniou

Light installation: Karolina Spyrou

Performance: Ariana Alphas-Polyxenie Savva-Nicolas Stavropodis

Tune in to 98.6FM while you are approaching the event area with your car. This is an introduction to the work.

The signal will be increasingly stronger and clearer as you will be approaching the site.

When: Thursday, 23 February 2012. The sound installation will be functioning from 4pm, the light installation will appear at twilight and the performance will take place at 7pm.

Where: Opposite the University of Nicosia, walk about 200m towards the Tymvos Makedonitissas, on the hill between the road and the airport’s fence.