We are not Ghosts

You are standing at the tip of the tongue of the Glossa sea front and looking at the camel rock into the sea. This poem evokes the memory of the Varoshian swimmers.

starling

goldfinch

hoopoe

Standing at the same tongue of the beach and looking at the barbed wires dividing the city. The poem contemplates on belonging and surrounding images of the city now and then. It evokes the memories of the places where Varoshians go to dream of home-returning.

You are walking on the golden sands of the Glossa Beach. The poem describes a memory of a Varoshian father and his son having the same experiences 40 years later.

You walk to the municipal garden of Varosha and sit under the sacred fig tree / ficus religiosa. The poem looks around at all the beauty of the city life that used to be, now left deserted.

You are walking to the Singer shop corner to grasp glimpses far into the inaccessible city center. The poem evokes memories of the agora, the cinema, gallery, library, all through a Cypriot kind of trespassing, over rusty barrels, barbed wires, dark holes and dead ends.

Sound- Walking, We Are Not Ghosts: Varosha Narratives 
A poetic walk into Varosha public space memory, through narratives of forced displacement and desire of return, with the poems of Nafia Akdeniz. 

This is a poetry-based interactive project that draws on Akdeniz’s ethnographic research on Varosha narratives. Through place memory, the poems address the narratives of displacement, place attachment and long-desired home-returning. Her words will be experienced as an immersive audio environment, on-site and online in 3 languages, Turkish, Greek, English.

Prepare to immerse yourself in a liminal space where time, memory, poetry, and soundscapes converge, and walk through the public places of Varosha, the sea, the park and the agora.

We Are Not Ghosts

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The Echoes

The Camel Rock

The Barbed Tongue

Golden Grains of Memory

A Meditation in a City Park

A Cypriot Kind of Glimpse

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