The lab’s activity centres on research for the production of text-based and audio-visual material, which concerns:

• modern and contemporary Cypriot culture, focusing on the arts.
• theoretical discourses on contemporary arts.
• theories of nationalism, post-colonialism and globalization, focusing on the place of the arts in the globalised environment, and on the role of the arts in the formation or subversion of national and other collective, as well as individual, identities.
• the Mediterranean, as physical and symbolic space of/for anti-hegemonic discourse and praxis.

The lab’s production includes, among others, the completion of doctoral dissertations, as well as the development of collaborations, including the attraction of funding from sources outside the university, with the aim of multimedia work production.

An important goal of the lab is the establishment of an environment that encourages encounters, debates and the formulation of research proposals and theoretical exchanges, and which constitutes a framework within to produce bibliographical and other material, in relation to the above research-theoretical fields.