the Acoustics of Still Photography
This paper outlines a type of formal protest that women relatives of missing persons have participated in, and continue to participate in...
the stones of the suez canal project in progress
There is an apocryphal story that stones from Cypriot temples and civic complexes were used to line the banks of the Suez Canal...
leaving the harbor of haloes 2010
Remains of French Gothic architectural masterpieces stand in ruins inside the walled city of Famagusta – contemporary evidence of the Ottoman siege of 1571. In this landscape of collapsed arches and buttresses, 19th century sailors seem to have come ashore and spent their time by carving images of their ships into the exposed frescoes of a church called St. George of the Greeks...
things, witnesses! 2009
This project is about histories, as opposed to history - the affect of multiple points of view on events – and uses objects as witnesses to the layered and implicitly politicized stories common in Cyprus...
radio drawings, 2008, 2010, 2011
The Radio Drawings project uses extremely low-tech radios that operate without a connection to any power supply, including batteries. They are functional radios that capture one or more local radio stations wherever they are installed, depending on the space where they are shown...
landscape radio 2008
underground utopia 2005
underground utopia is a collaged set of rubbings from sewer covers located inside the UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus...
messagefield 2004
messagefield is a mode of work conceived for the sixth international Armenian Biennale; evolving and exhibited since 2002...
initiation 2001
The release of molten metal into cold water is a ritual performed in cultures all over the world. The purposes of these acts range from exorcism and prognostication to diagnosis of recurring nightmares. In an outdoor public performance on July 22nd 2002, Elizabeth poured sixty-five portions of molten pewter into holy water; one for each child born in the City of Philadelphia on September 11th 2001...
church of memory 2001
The installation consists of two rooms, both of which were directly inspired by taped, oral interviews of Cypriots in the U.S.A., England, and the Republic of Cyprus...