Track 350m

NiMAC presents Track 350m, a site-specific installation by Socratis Socratous stemming from his decade-long research on Tivoli Luna Park, Cyprus’s first amusement park, and on the Nicosia International Airport, beside which the Park was founded in 1967. Tivoli embodied post-independence optimism and the island’s booming modernity, while its displacement after 1974, equally mirrors our contested past and later capitalist trends that shifted the island’s landscapes. Through objects, photographs, and archival remnants, Socratous transforms Tivoli’s ruins into a reflection on leisure, politics, and unresolved histories – echoing similar processes of ruination as much as struggles of displacement, and division across our region.

* Socratous first developed this project during a residency at NiMAC in 2013, which was never realized due to the financial crisis and the 2013 “haircut.”