Sisterhood: Streaming voices unifying energies

Greek and Cypriot female and female-identifying artists are coming together on April 16 at Korai space in Nicosia to present their work in an exhibition called Sisterhood: Streaming voices unifying energies. Looking at how technology is intertwined in our lives, all of the creatives taking part shape their practices through an intersection of techno-scientific sensuality where new emotional meanings and methodologies emerge.

“The artists of the Sisterhood come from different generations and backgrounds,” says curator Angelo Plessas. “The works selected in the show commonly illuminate the influence of technology spanning chronologically from the ‘early accessible tools’ era culminating in the current time of the hyper-penetration of technology in our lives where attitudes and forms of communication change rapidly every day. The show aspires to highlight how our hyper-connected reality – whose mechanisms are still male-dominated, is ‘sowing the seeds’ with a utopian drive for full equality.

“Given the fact that women have different perspectives and sensibilities on themes such as identity, freedom of speech, privacy, spirituality and eroticism, Sisterhood aspires to generate more complex and subtle interpretations that shape our current (incessant) image culture,” he adds.

The show includes various types of media, beyond the boundaries of the screen so expect to see painting, sculpture, sound, design and writing illuminating towards the more pluralistic model of communication and the broader role of the artist nowadays. The show avoids subjecting the works as ‘technological’ or they become part of a completely new media exhibition,” Angelo says.

Questioning the hierarchies of high art and ‘lowly’ craft, the works raise several questions including: do the tools of our current post-technological life still equally represent women in the arts? Are gender roles online being neutralised and the focus is currently on the increasingly blurring roles of consumer and producer of information? Or is gender being polarised online and other forms of sexism are being created? Is there a cyber-feminist aesthetic?

“These are some of the questions of the paradoxical realities of our current time which the artists of the show are invited to interpret,” says Angelo. Twenty artists will bring their work together, from asteroid surfaces to scenes from martial arts and downloaded animated gifs in an endless loop.

Sisterhood: Streaming Voices Unifying Energies

20 artists present their work presenting the influence of technology in current life. April 16-28. Korai space, Nicosia. Opening day: 4pm-9pm. Wednesdays: 4pm-6pm and Saturdays 10am-12pm and by appointment. Supported by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education. Curated by Angelo Plessas and P.E.T. Projects. [email protected]