Rebranding the Bufferzone
Proposal for a new logo for Nicosia
Archival Prints: each 16cm X 18 cm
Proposal for a living monument to the Bufferzone
Hummingbirds would be imported and survive on Coca Cola concentrate (i.e The Coke Side of Life)
Archival Print: 50 cm X 37.5 cm
Background photo by Alex Schikowski
2008
Based on an ‘artistic tourism’ trip to Cyprus, these pieces look at the ways in which Nicosia brands itself as “Europe’s Last Divided Capital”. One proposal is to remake the municipal logo (a dove surrounded by the Venetian walled city), and switch it in favour of a hummingbird which is not indigenous to Cyprus, as is the only bird that can remain ‘directionless’ in flight.
Plurinaming / Polyphony
The practice of multiple naming began in 2001 as a by-product of physical displacement, and as an adaptive game in negotiating foreign cultural/linguistic contexts. The name is acquired after a period of acquaintanceship with a “local”, and as a gift, cannot be refused or negotiated. Names are not an alias, but rather a compounding of the original name, as such they are notated as follows:
Pia Fuchs deutsche Identität von Patricia Reed.