An immersive performance at Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

Can museums and cultural establishments be more than just holders of history and art? An upcoming event at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in Nicosia arrives to explore the notion and present a different kind of performance. Mark your calendars for May 19 and head to old-town Nicosia for an experience that will have you moving through the museum grounds.

ReInHerit a Museum Immersive Performance at the BoCCF invites the audience to embrace the foundation as a place of cultural preservation but also one of creation. Through the use of modern interactive technologies and live music, visitors will be immersed in the world of performance and explore it using their bodies, experiencing the museum anew as a creative, welcoming, living space.

The performance will combine a large-scale interactive sound installation with elements of augmented reality, a large group of moving musicians, real-time graphics generation and projection mapping, as it envelops and underlines the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation’s current temporary and permanent exhibitions.

ReInHerit a Museum is one of the performances organised in the framework of ReInHerit – Redefining the Future of Culture Heritage: Creating an Innovative Model for Sustainability coordinated by the foundation. The performance is organised by CYENS Centre of Excellence, ReInHerit partner in collaboration with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra and is presented as part of the events celebrating the European Museum Night of 2023.

The project is characterised by an innovative approach to the curation of the visitors’ experiences of cultural heritage sites, for which an immersive performance is created within a museum. During the performance, visitors navigate the building of the foundation and its museums freely, shaping their personal experience of the space and its exhibits.

Through their movement, audience and musicians trigger sonic events whenever and wherever they enter to explore, according to the locations of the sound installation’s receivers. Interaction with the performance environment happens using a smartphone app which has been designed especially for this event. The app offers the opportunity to see objects from the BoCCF’s Ethnographic Collection, which are not presently exhibited in spaces open to the public. These are shown as three-dimensional projections of augmented reality, within the museum spaces. The performance on May 19 starts at 8.30pm and is free and suitable for all to enjoy.

ReInHerit a Museum Immersive Performance at the BoCCF

An immersive performance using interactive technologies and live music. May 19. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free. Open to all