Confluence 4
19 March - 30 March, 2025
Nicosia, on the island of Cyprus
Archipelago Weaver 2025: Marina Christodoulidou*
Our main host will be SPEL, the State Gallery of Contemporary Art,
while we will also be welcomed by NiMAC, the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre.
Our huge gratitude goes out to Louli Michaelidou and Elena Stylianou respectively.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 19:
Arrival students
Thursday 20:
Friday 21:
Saturday 22:
Sunday 23:
Monday 24:
Tuesday 25:
Arrival of the COOP tutorial teams.
Wednesday 26:
Convened by artist-run space Thkio Ppalies (Peter Eramian & Stelios Kallinikou)
Thursday 27:
Friday 28:
Saturday 29:
Sunday 30:
Departure all
* Archipelago Weaving:
The Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is an itinerant Master program at the intersection of theory with art, activism, performance and curation. Without a permanent home, students and tutors congregate seven times per year at different places throughout Europe (and beyond) to engage in collective study: making and thinking.
Finding like-minded partners, we connect with local art initiatives, performance and presentation spaces and residencies, weaving an international network, an archipelago of distinct localities and initiatives, each with their own rhythms and objectives. We exchange in a spirit of generosity, holding space while sharing time and knowledges, generating energy, building the community to come.
After DAI@Cagliari 2019 (initiated by Luca Carboni), DAI@Sidi Bou Said 2020 (initiated by Aziza Harmel), DAI@Bergamo 2022 (initiated by Sara Benaglia) DAI@Salina Island 2023 (initiated by Niccolò Masini), DAI@Nida 2023 ( initiated by Egija Inzule), Marina Christodoulidou is the latest DAI person who poetically and practically manages to relate and connect our Roaming Academy to a place she herself so deeply cares for. Our huge gratitude goes out to Marina, but also to her forerunners mentioned here and we hope their visionary work as "Archipelago Weavers" will be inspirational to many others (alumni, tutors, friends). You are welcome to step forward as Archipelago Weaver of futures near and far.