Sound-Walking

A poetic walk into Varosha's public spaces and memories through narratives of forced displacement and desire of return, with the poems of Nafia Akdeniz.

Sound-Walking
We Are Not Ghosts: Varosha Narratives

A poetic walk into Varosha’s public spaces and memory, through narratives of forced displacement and desire of return, with the poems of Nafia Akdeniz.

This poetry-based interactive sound walk draws on Akdeniz’s ethnographic research on Varosha narratives and is experienced as an immersive audio environment, on location and online in three languages: Turkish, Greek, English.

The project is a collaboration between the poet Nafia Akdeniz and D6:EU and funded as part of the Arts for Social Action small grants programme.

POEM 1 - Camel Rock of Varosha

POEM 2 - The Barbed Tongue

POEM 3 - Golden Grains of Memory

POEM 4 - Meditation in the City Garden

POEM 5 - A Cypriot Kind of Glimpse

Sound-Walk is a collaborative work of the poet Nafia Akdeniz, curator Alessandro Vincentelli, cultural director Argyro Toumazou, sound designer Inal Bilsel, visual designer Andriana Lagoudes, and application developer Redif Ekinci. The project is produced by D6:EU, a visual arts organisation based in Cyprus, developing new opportunities for artists and cultural collaborations in Cyprus, Europe and the Middle East.

Supporters: the Famagusta City Museum, Famagusta Avenue Garage, Famagusta local community, Paralimni – Deryneia Municipality, and Jason Winn – Narrative Infrastructure. The project is a collaboration between the poet Nafia Akdeniz and D6:EU and funded as part of the Art for Social Action small grants programme.

The Arts for Social Action small grants programme (ASA) is implemented by Visual Voices, the Civil Society Initiative, and The Management Center of the Mediterranean within the framework of Building Community – Arts for Social Action Project (BCASA), funded by the European Union under the EU Aid Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community.

This program was funded by the European Union under the small grants programme of BCASA Project. Its contents are the sole responsibility of D6:EU and Nafia Akdeniz and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

Poetry Collection PDF

Map by Jason Murray Winn

To walk through Sound-Walk on location, scan the QR code or click here.

Sound-Walking

A poetic walk into Varosha's public spaces and memories through narratives of forced displacement and desire of return, with the poems of Nafia Akdeniz.