Space of Tapes is a five-day interdisciplinary research project and performance installation at the Tsaousis Building in Nicosia (11-15 November 2026), exploring distances between culture, power, and meaning through electroacoustic performance, circuit bending workshops, and collective artistic research.
Revisiting Aboulomania - Open process of collective research and artistic reprocessing by the Workshop for Urban Commons, revisiting works, texts, ideas and practices to reactivate their possibilities in the present, through fragments, images, sounds, silences and different voices, reapproaching selected material from the work ABOULOMANIA and crossing it with practices hosted during the same period of the health crisis on the group's website. The audience is invited to participate in creating a network of new relations and possible paths.
Space of Tapes takes place on Wed 11 - Sun 15 Nov 2026.
Space of Tapes is held at Ktirio Tsaoysi, Nicosia.
Ticket prices for Space of Tapes: Performance Tickets (11 & 12/11): 12€ (Regular) / 5€ (Reduced).
Space of Tapes is organised by Space of Tapes.
Led by artist and researcher Tassos Stamou, the workshop covers the presentation and (pre)history of improvised electronic sound, basic principles, techniques and tools. Participants will modify and reconstruct unique electronic musical instruments from recycled materials. No prior knowledge required.
An open collective research and artistic reprocessing process led by the Urban Commons Workshop. Participants revisit selected material from the ABOULOMANIA work through fragments, images, sounds, silences and different voices, creating a new collective trace. The public is invited to participate in creating a network of new relationships and possible paths.
The interdisciplinary research project Space of Tapes reactivates the iconic Tsaousis Building in the walled city of Nicosia, with the five-day performance installation Tape #1 - Tools for Measuring Distances.
The installation begins with an observation: the distances that separate the academy from state institutions, religion from antiquities, and contemporary creation from money are not merely geometric. They are also distances of power, interpretation, and ownership.
It seems that behind every distance - even where culture is not named - it is this that governs measurement: the way we look at, name, preserve, hold, or reject what stands opposite us. The film - the tape - functions as one of the tools for measuring their shifting magnitudes: not to eliminate them, but to know how far we are from the other, the future, the past, the institution, creation, and truth - today.
For five days, cultural heritage is approached not as a 'past-totem' but as a living act of salvaging and transmitting the present. From electroacoustic performance lamento and circuit bending, to interactive works and the presentation -Revisiting-, Tape #1 opens a dialogue, playing with the limits of what can be said, what can be heard, and what can be transmitted - in a game that is not an escape but a way of approaching the other without destroying it - an act of survival: a refusal to confront reality on imposed terms.
'Tape #1' does not try to unite these distances. It tries to leave them visible, audible, and played. To show that measurement is never neutral: every measure carries the power that imposed it, the body that holds it, and the time that wears it down. And that, despite all this, we are still measuring.
ACTIONS:
11 & 12 November, 20:30 - Electroacoustic Performance Lamento: «post-truth is another water game I play against my mouth»
It is the opening, central action of the installation. Composed and constructed by Stella N. Christou, with Savina Giannatou once again taking on the role of the 'Mouth', the performance lamento measures the distances between truth and 'game', between sight and theory - in the past and the future - and between the body that speaks and the word that escapes. In this condition, lament is proposed as an active cognitive performance - a tool for shaking off what crushes us, creating yet another collective landscape of living acts of survival and transmission of the present.
13 November, 17:00 - 02:00 - Gathering: Rec • Interactive Artists' Tour (tapes x Kala Kathoumena).
14 November, 10:30 - 19:00 - Workshop: «The Art of Circuit Bending»
With the artist and researcher Tasos Stamou as facilitator, the workshop focuses on the presentation and (pre)history of improvised electronic sound, and on its basic principles, techniques and tools. Participants will modify and (re)construct unique electronic musical instruments from recycled materials. No prior knowledge is required.
15 November, 17:00 - Revisiting Aboulomania
The Laboratory for Urban Commons invites you to an open process of collective research and artistic reprocessing, starting from the notion of revisiting (Revisiting). What does it mean to return to works, texts, ideas and practices, not to reconstruct a historical narrative, but to reactivate their possibilities in the present? Through excerpts, images, sounds, silences and different voices, the group re-approaches selected material from the work ABOULOMANIA, cross-referencing it with practices hosted during the same period of the health crisis on the group's website. Building a new collective trace from excerpts, silences and recorded voices, where study and public positioning are produced simultaneously with the material. The audience is invited to participate by contributing to the creation of a network of new relationships and possible paths.
Performance Tickets (11 & 12/11): 12€ (Regular) / 5€ (Reduced)
Information & Seat Reservations: Instagram: @spaceoftapes / 96 510 696
With the support of the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus.
