Opening this weekend in Nicosia, is a collaborative audio-visual performance installation piece by the interdisciplinary research group Space of Tapes. Five artists from Cyprus, Greece and Spain are involved in the project titled The Cartographer and Her Chorus: a dreamscape monodrama which will be presented to visitors on Sunday and Monday at Garage.

Taking dream incubation rituals as a starting point, this work maps performative bodies within a topography of sculptures, video projections, soundscapes and live music. Dream incubation rituals, practiced by many ancient cultures, refer to the practice of sleeping in a sacred precinct to intentionally experience and nurture a divinely inspired dream, often associated with healing or prophecy.

During a four-week research residency, the Nicosia Buffer Zone operated as the alchemical site for a modern incubation, while the chimeric forms of the sculptures of Simis Soukiouroglou, created in the space of this zone, evoked a strong metaphor on the world of images emerging from the unconscious, where things can die and provide energy, or compost, for transformation.

The public is invited to enter the interior of a metaphysical journey and participate in a transformative ritual that opens spaces, creating a landscape where each entry point is a leap into the rearticulation of oneself.

The Cartographer and Her Chorus: A Dreamscape Monodrama

Collaborative audio-visual performance installation. December 17-18. Garage, Nicosia. 8pm. €7. Tel: 99-454896