Creative Talks

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SATURDAY 29.11 TALKS

The WIP LAB 2025 INVISIBLE WATERS: Creative Talks & Open Play invite resident artists and researchers to share their processes through fragments, gestures, questions, and play — ideas still in motion rather than resolved. Guided by a facilitator, the session unfolds as a collective flow of reflections where practices and perspectives meet, overlap, and diverge. It aims to facilitate a dynamic exchange of ideas between presenters and audiences alike.

PART 1: Creative Talks

09:30 - 10:30

Presenters:

Maurice Cazzolli - Water Movement Nicosia

Xin Yang - What we can see from invisibilities

Miguel Teodoro - Ground Truth: navigating complex realities through time-based media

Claudia Lehmann - Brackish registers: saltwater intrusion as geochemical process and material witness

HKASON - Flows and Traces: Possibilities of the Vanished Body

Carmilla Sumantry - Translating Emotion through Immersive Media

PART 2: Open Play Session

Facilitator: Marilena Zackheos

11:00 - 13:15

Participants:

Presenting artists, researchers, and a broader public audience

MODERATOR - Creative Talks

Myrto Aristidou

Myrto is part of the CYENS Thinker Maker Space Team. She is a researcher, educator, and interdisciplinary practitioner. Her work explores the convergences of art, science, and technology, focusing on digital archiving and reflexive cross-disciplinary practices. She has a background in Fine Arts and Museology, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Cyprus University of Technology.

FACILITATOR - Open Play

Marilena Zackheos

Marilena Zackheos grew up in Moscow, Beijing, Nicosia, Geneva, and New York City. She has published on postcolonial literary and cultural studies, psychoanalysis and trauma, gender and sexuality. She co-edited Vile Women: Female Evil in Fact, Fiction, and Mythology (2014), From Cyprus With Love (2016), and Education in a Multicultural Cyprus (2017). She is the author of the poetry book Carmine Lullabies (2016) and the poetic sequence Arizona, CY (2024). Her first solo art exhibition, as part of a duo with Nicos Philippou, was held at Art Seen in Nicosia (2024). She teaches poetry at the University of Cyprus.