RainZonanceS4

Estoudiantinos Symeonides productions present the 4th edition of the ongoing project RainZonanceS, founded in 2008 by composer – sound artist Antonis Antoniou. 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 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 fuzzy 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-Nickolas Stravopodis

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.

Note1: In case the weather is not favorable, the project will be presented on another day that will be announced.

Note2: Due to the cold weather and the anomalous land, the audience is strongly encouraged to wear appropriate clothing and be extremely careful when walking around.

Note3: Audience is strongly advised to be very careful when being close to the road, since the drivers at that specific point speed up and don’t have a good visual perspective. Please be extra cautious if you are with children!