Our wonderful DAI COOP tutor Marina Christodoulidou (since 2022-date) along with Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Peter Eramian (both DAI Roaming Assembly#32 Ever Given contributors) have opened an exhibition titled The Broken Pitcher at De Appel, Amsterdam - on until 20th March 2026! Especially after our time shared with Marina and art collective Thkio Ppalies in Nicosia in 2025 it is super interesting to see this work presented in the Netherlands (Europe's "Scrooge"). Tracing the effects of financialisation and austerity, the collaborative project The Broken Pitcher attends to a concrete case: a crucial meeting at a bank, negotiating the foreclosure of a family home in Larnaca, Cyprus in 2019. Foreclosures are one of the austerity measures that were imposed on the Cypriot government by the Troika (the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) after the financial crisis in 2012.
In the iteration at de Appel, The Broken Pitcher foregrounds historical patterns of rupture through interlocutors who approach their practice both as a social score and as a means of infrastructural confrontation and critical intimacy. In parallel to the walk-in installation, research material, video interviews and film, these contributions expand on the intent of place-making, calling for the urgency to recontextualise and reclaim both space and narrative. Within this movement, the additional artistic contributions by Stelios Kallinikou, Olga Micińska and Maria Toumazou trace the dead ends of state bureaucracy and the collapse of banking as a social structure. Throughout the project’s span, The Broken Pitcher Forum activates a programme including open discussions, screenings, and a performance of a record released by the Cyprus-based label Moneda.
The Broken Pitcher is screened daily (Wednesday–Sunday) in the exhibition space during opening hours. The film starts at 14:00, 15:15, 16:30 and 17:45. (starting times may vary slightly).
About Marina Christodoulidou
About Peter Eramian
About Natascha Sadr Haghighian
About Roaming Assembly#32 ~ Ever Given in Nicosia in 2025