Waste on the Island Yaron Jorgen Balslev Description Waste is an integral part of modern society; whether we like it or not, it's part of our human heritage. Viewing Cyprus through the lens of waste offers a unique way to explore the island's challenges. With a historical perspective, we may find that the story of…

Material Flow Table Pit-To-Table https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PVYCcWB4IJs Description Material Flow Table is a long, communal installation made from pit-board, a surface produced from olive pomace — an agricultural by-product typically burned or discarded. The table is arranged as a sequence of modular segments, inviting visitors to move alongside it and experience material transformation as a physical journey. Each…

The Goldilocks Zone Elena Adamou Description In physics, a circumstellar habitable zone is the area around a star where a planet, given sufficient mass and atmospheric pressure, can sustain water on its surface. This area is metaphorically referred to as "the Goldilocks Zone", inspired by the classic children’s fairy tale. In the story, a little…

The Hill Daphne Klagkou Description A fabricated hill suspended above ground, where technology-enhanced materials turn nature into a static ornament, questioning what remains “natural”. The sculpture features a section of land, detached from a hill, hovering above ground level, yet its materials create an unfamiliar sight. Covered with carbon fibre, a material often used in…

Exquisite Corpse Karl Kaisel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6bc_ts-LRs Description A crab carcass on the shore of the Baltic Sea presents a mystery, compelling us to place the creature in a story we can understand. We feel the urge to categorise, to determine its purpose, unsettled by its otherness. But in our rush to assign meaning, we almost forget to…

A Space for Encapsulation Andrey Chugunov Description A Space for Encapsulation is a new media art project exploring Scotland’s coastal zones — liminal sites among the first affected by rising sea levels, where natural and industrial artefacts entangle. These coastlines form unstable assemblages in which post-industrial ruins, defence structures, drifting plastic and organic matter merge,…

In the Shell Lida Zacharopoulou Description In the Shell is a multimedia installation that explores transformation, memory and classification through AI and marine specimens. The work draws on an archive of shells, corals, and urchin remains the artist collected from remote coastlines over many years. These specimens were photographed and used to train custom AI…